{"id":85414,"date":"2020-05-21T05:51:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T11:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=85414"},"modified":"2020-05-21T07:13:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T13:13:36","slug":"gray-catbird-in-a-goofy-posture-just-for-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/21\/gray-catbird-in-a-goofy-posture-just-for-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Gray Catbird In A Goofy Posture – Just For Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

If I ever thought a bird looked happy this guy is it. It’s far from a high quality photo but it lifts my spirits.<\/p>\n

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\"\"1\/6400, f\/5.6, 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

Two days ago in the mountains this Gray Catbird wasn’t in position for great photos from the get-go. ‘He’ was facing away from me, there was a long and very distracting branch directly above his back and there was another out of focus branch in the upper left corner of the frame which I’ve removed from this image. But I took a few photos anyway and hoped to get lucky with a takeoff shot which was highly unlikely because he had his back to me.<\/p>\n

But he fooled me by turning quickly and taking off to my left as he was calling which resulted in an unusual pre-takeoff posture that tickles my funny bone. The photo has an additional strike against it because I jerked my lens when he turned so quickly and unexpectedly (a rookie mistake) so the bird is a little soft despite some extra sharpening during processing.<\/p>\n

He looks like he’s having fun and to me it’s contagious, despite the likelihood that the source of his apparent entertainment was probably that he thought he’d ruined my shot by turning so quickly on the perch and taking off in an unexpected direction.<\/p>\n

I’m only kidding of course, the catbird was almost certainly oblivious to all that. But I’ll always think of him as ‘Happy Bird’ and this morning in particular I appreciated an extra dose of happy.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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If I ever thought a bird looked happy this guy is it.<\/p>\n

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