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<\/p>\nI don’t see a photo like this one every day and I look at an enormous number of bird photographs.<\/p>\n
I spent much of yesterday afternoon culling the 1400+ photos I took of Mountain Bluebirds at their natural nest cavity four days ago. My intention was to post about a dozen of them this morning but I couldn’t process all of them in time so today there’ll be only one.<\/p>\n
If nothing else it’s certainly unique to my portfolio. I’ve never posted another photo quite like it.<\/p>\n
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1\/400, 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 This is the male Mountain Bluebird about to exit the nest cavity. In a previous post I complained about some twigs almost directly in front of the cavity that cast unfortunate shadows on the entrance for much of the morning and ruined many of my photos. Both bluebirds liked to perch on those twigs in order to guard their nest from a marauding House Wren that kept trying to take over the cavity for its own nesting purposes.<\/p>\n In this photo, taken as the male was about to exit the cavity, we see the shadow of his devoted mate cast on the tree directly above him as she perched on one of those twigs. There’s actually a dark spot on the tree bark that resembles her eye to enhance the effect. And in sort of a weird cycle of photons it’s likely that he’s looking directly at his mate whose shadow we see above him.<\/p>\n The photo is certainly different. I realize that just being different doesn’t necessarily make it any good but I enjoyed seeing it so I hope my readers do too.<\/p>\n More bluebirds soon.<\/p>\n Ron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don’t see a photo like this one every day and I look at an enormous number of bird photographs.<\/p>\n