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<\/p>\nWhen it comes to being aware of their surroundings birds don’t miss much but this little fella was an exception. Color him clueless.<\/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 I photographed him yesterday morning in the mountains as he was gleaning tiny insects, mostly aphids, from a willow tree. Here he’d leaned way over to harvest bugs from near the base of a clump of leaves. He must have found some goodies in there because he kept sticking his head into the same spot, again and again. The bird is soft because I always try to focus on the eye and my active focus point couldn’t get past the leaves in front of it but in this case the leaves may be the most important part of the story.<\/p>\n Do you see what this bird is missing? From this perspective we can see what the bird apparently didn’t or couldn’t see.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 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 In this shot he’s pulled his head back an inch or so from the leaf he’d been reaching around in the previous photo. He had a few aphids on the tip of his bill but there’s an entire army of them in the shade on the underside of the leaf that he never noticed, even though his eye had been only millimeters from them a split second earlier.<\/p>\n He flew off a few seconds after this photo was taken but the clump of aphids on the leaf, including what appears to be a few white larvae, was left undisturbed. When I looked at this and many other similar shots I kept wondering how he could not see them but I guess he just had an oblivious moment or two. It happens to the best of us.<\/p>\n No big deal of course but when it comes to birds little things like this amuse me.<\/p>\n Ron<\/p>\n <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/yellow-warbler-5891-ron-dudley.jpg\" "\\"yellow-warbler-5891-ron-dudley\\"")
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