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<\/p>\nA spot of cheerful color in a gloom and doom world.<\/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 Last night I found myself looking through my files in search of something cheery and light. I found a few possibilities but kept coming back to this delightful little Yellow Warbler so I decided to run with him.<\/p>\n Usually this species spends its time in dense foliage but this one was actually hunting for insects on the ground. Here he had popped up onto a cut woody stem near a dirt road in the Wasatch Mountains as he surveyed for juicy bugs. He was still only a few inches off the ground as evidenced by the short green foxtails we see in the frame.<\/p>\n I wish the entire perch were sharp but it was leaning toward me so at f\/6.3 I didn’t have enough depth of field to get it done.<\/p>\n Around here it’s still too early in the year for Yellow Warblers but my time spent preparing this image for publication provided a brief but welcome respite from the cares of the world. Yesterday’s earthquake rattled us here in the Salt Lake Valley in more ways than one and many of us are still dealing with the resulting stress compounded by recent world events. We’ve had roughly 50 aftershocks<\/span><\/span><\/a> with magnitudes as great as 4.6 after the “main event” but thankfully none of those that occurred last night were severe enough to wake me up and I’m grateful for that.<\/p>\n So thank you little Yellow Warbler. For me there’s no stress reliever quite as effective as time spent with birds. I’d prefer to be out with them in nature but my photos of them are the next best thing.<\/p>\n Ron<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A spot of cheerful color in a gloom and doom world.<\/p>\n