{"id":73482,"date":"2019-07-16T05:06:25","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T11:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=73482"},"modified":"2019-07-16T05:32:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T11:32:10","slug":"black-necked-stilt-wing-stretch-from-an-unusual-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/16\/black-necked-stilt-wing-stretch-from-an-unusual-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Black-necked Stilt Wing Stretch From An Unusual Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Four days ago while photographing American Avocet and Black-necked Stilt chicks and adults at Bear River MBR this adult stilt stretched its wings while it was close and facing me. I thought it was a somewhat unusual and interesting viewing angle on a wing stretch.<\/p>\n

If the bird hadn’t turned its head to give me a good look at its face and eye the photo wouldn’t have worked. The downside was that with the bird facing me I didn’t have enough depth of field to get the entire bird quite as sharp as I like so its head is slightly soft, but still acceptable in my opinion. There’s lots of specular highlights on the bill but I can live with them.<\/p>\n

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The next shot in the burst was the last one I got for a while that didn’t clip or cut off both wings and even here I came very close. In the next 15 shots I butchered the wingtips because I was just too close when they were held vertically with my teleconverter attached.<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, f\/6.3, ISO 800, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

But when the wings eventually came back down I got several more photos as the bird did a slow pirouette to its right, giving me more of a side view.<\/p>\n

In all three images the right wing has very little detail but that’s to be expected with blacks in shade when most of the rest of the bird is in good light. Besides I think that wing is kind of interesting in silhouette, especially in the first photo.<\/p>\n

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While I was photographing the avocets and stilts this apparently abandoned egg was amongst them, in fact I can see the egg in some of my photos of the birds. I don’t believe it ever hatched but because of its odd shape on the left side I suspect it had been scavenged by predators. And even now we can see an insect at the right side of the shell that might be scavenging decomposing elements of the egg’s contents. Nothing goes to waste.<\/p>\n

The egg appeared to be approximately the right size to have been produced by avocets or stilts but both of those species have darker eggs with speckling and mottling so it must belong to some other species.<\/p>\n

But I have no idea what it might be.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Plus a mystery egg.<\/p>\n

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