{"id":73615,"date":"2019-07-20T06:09:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T12:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=73615"},"modified":"2019-07-20T07:00:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T13:00:28","slug":"some-random-recent-birds-and-critters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/20\/some-random-recent-birds-and-critters\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Random Recent Birds And Critters"},"content":{"rendered":"

A potpourri of sorts on this Saturday morning. Each of the following photos was taken in the last couple of weeks and all but one were taken in the Wasatch Mountains.<\/p>\n

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1\/3200, 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

I’ll start with this extremely scruffy-looking Black-capped Chickadee who looks like it was rode hard and put away wet. I imagine its poor condition is a result of both molting and the strains and stresses of raising a family. I’m surprised it even felt like singing. Like humans, birds have their less than stellar moments and I like to document my avian subjects whether they’re looking their best at the time or not.<\/p>\n

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1\/640, f\/16, 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

A Song Sparrow on a vertical perch. My camera settings for this photo were a mistake. I forgot to change them after photographing a different subject that needed more depth of field.<\/p>\n

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1\/1000, f\/11, 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

Two Uinta Ground Squirrels perched high and dry on top of sagebrush. Normally this shot wouldn’t work very well for me because of all of the twigs in front of the squirrel on the left but in the end I liked the peekaboo effect of its eye looking at me through the opening in the twigs.<\/p>\n

While I had these rodents in my viewfinder I was fooled by what I was seeing. For some reason I was convinced that the squirrel on the left was quite a distance behind the other squirrel so even though I went to f\/11 for this shot I thought one of the squirrels would be soft in all of my photos. So I didn’t take very many shots of them. I was wrong about the sharpness so both squirrels must have been about the same distance from me.<\/p>\n

Depth\/distance can be deceiving.<\/p>\n

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1\/2000, f\/6.3, ISO 500, 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

Yesterday I posted a juvenile Black-necked Stilt<\/a> but obviously this chick at Bear River MBR is much younger than that bird. One of the parents of this youngster was highly excitable whenever the chick would wander too close to potential threats while it was foraging for food. Man, do stilts ever make a lot of noise in that situation!<\/p>\n

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1\/3200, f\/9, 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

“Chippies” always make me smile but this one cracked me up. Look at the photo of this Least Chipmunk carefully. Do you see anything… peculiar?<\/p>\n

Where in the world did those toes wrapping around the edge of the horizontal fence rail come from? At first glance it looked to me like there must be another chipmunk below the rail and out of sight that was about to climb over the edge of the rail and pull itself up with that foot. But of course I knew almost immediately that I needed to look for another explanation.<\/p>\n

Next my mind’s eye told me that the chipmunk’s right leg must be hanging over the far side of the rail and the part of the right foot that we can see was wrapping over the edge toward the viewer. But closer inspection told me that doesn’t work either because the claws on the foot are pointing the wrong way. So I was back to square one.<\/p>\n

Finally I figured it out. The chipmunk’s right leg is buried in a deep groove on the rail and all we can see is some of its toes coming out of the groove, pointing away from us and hanging over the far edge.<\/p>\n

Sheesh, I can be a little dense sometimes.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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A potpourri of sorts on this Saturday morning. Each of the following photos was taken in the last couple of weeks and all but one were taken in the Wasatch Mountains.<\/p>\n

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