{"id":84967,"date":"2020-05-08T04:39:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T10:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=84967"},"modified":"2020-05-08T04:39:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T10:39:35","slug":"a-contemplative-bluebird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/08\/a-contemplative-bluebird\/","title":{"rendered":"A Contemplative Bluebird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A short post today. I’ve been jabbering too much on my blog of late.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"84968\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/08\/a-contemplative-bluebird\/mountain-bluebird-9872-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/mountain-bluebird-9872-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,643\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"6.3","credit":"RON DUDLEY","camera":"Canon EOS 7D Mark II","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1588146574","copyright":"","focal_length":"700","iso":"800","shutter_speed":"0.0008","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"mountain bluebird 9872 ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/mountain-bluebird-9872-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/mountain-bluebird-9872-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-84968 size-full\" title=\"mountain-bluebird-9872-ron-dudley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/mountain-bluebird-9872-ron-dudley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/mountain-bluebird-9872-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/mountain-bluebird-9872-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/mountain-bluebird-9872-ron-dudley-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/mountain-bluebird-9872-ron-dudley-150x107.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>1\/1250\/ 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<p>This is the male Mountain Bluebird I photographed a little over a week ago near his nest cavity in the mountains. I posted a different photo of him on this perch five days ago but I thought this pose was worthy of its own presentation.<\/p>\n<p>I don’t know what he was looking at near the crotch of the broken limb but whatever it was it really captured his attention. He held this head position long enough to allow me many photos of him in this seemingly contemplative pose.<\/p>\n<p>It isn’t Rodin’s <em>The Thinker<\/em> but it still makes me wonder what birds might think about.<\/p>\n<p>Ron<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It isn’t Rodin’s The Thinker but it still makes me wonder what birds might think about.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/08\/a-contemplative-bluebird\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[334,1504],"tags":[741,2986,5100,311],"class_list":["post-84967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birds","category-mountain-bluebirds","tag-mountain-bluebird","tag-sialia-currucoides","tag-the-thinker","tag-utah-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/mountain-bluebird-9872-ron-dudley.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zzJh-m6r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}