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<\/p>\nWhere there’s a will there’s a way, especially if you’re hungry, and even when there’s a significant obstacle to negotiate.<\/p>\n
Yesterday morning I had pretty good luck with several songbird species at a migrant trap in a remote area of Box Elder County. Yellow-rumped Warblers were among them.<\/p>\n
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1\/2500, f\/6.3, ISO 640, 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 And man oh man were they ever hungry! They were flitting around and hawking insects from this sumac bush at such a frenetic pace you’d have thought they were starving and maybe they were. After all, migration is nothing if it isn’t strenuous and extremely taxing.<\/p>\n Typically they’d land on an exterior twig of the bush like this one and then glance around frantically in all directions as they looked for tiny insects in flight nearby. When they located one they’d take off and snag it out of the air.<\/p>\n That’s exactly what this male is doing. He’s looking. Hard.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1\/3200, f\/6.3, ISO 640, 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 Here he’s spotted a tiny flying morsel and he’s about to take off after it but there’s a problem. That largest branch in front of his breast is directly in his way so how would he negotiate it?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1\/2500, f\/6.3, ISO 640, 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 He chose to use a wing-aided vertical jump to get over it before he shot off like a rocket after the tiny flying insect out of frame to our right.<\/p>\n He’s getting as much lift out of those long slender legs as he possibly can. All this happened in a flash, so quickly I didn’t even know what I’d captured until I got home and looked at my photos on the big screen.<\/p>\n Birds, especially little ones, are world-class athletes and I’m always delighted when I capture their lightening-quick gymnastics in my photos since I very often miss seeing or noticing them, even while looking through my super-telephoto lens.<\/p>\n As I often say it’s the little things that can make bird photos interesting.<\/p>\n Ron<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Where there’s a will there’s a way, especially if you’re hungry, and even when there’s a significant obstacle to negotiate.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/yellow-rumped-warbler-1112-ron-dudley.jpg\" "\\"yellow-rumped-warbler-1112-ron-dudley\\"")
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