{"id":86823,"date":"2020-06-29T05:47:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T11:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=86823"},"modified":"2020-06-29T07:25:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T13:25:54","slug":"song-sparrow-where-did-all-those-feathers-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/29\/song-sparrow-where-did-all-those-feathers-come-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Song Sparrow – Where Did All Those Feathers Come From?"},"content":{"rendered":"

To me this (second photo) almost looks like two birds, one on top of the other. In fact there’s very little ‘almost’ about it – that’s what I see. But it’s a single Song Sparrow.<\/p>\n

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1\/3200, f\/7.1, 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

A week ago today while I was photographing other birds in the mountains this Song Sparrow landed in a bush right in front of me. I prefer birds to be further away than this because when they’re this close my gear has very little depth of field so I usually can’t get the entire bird sharp. And then when I crop the photo the bird is typically too tight in the frame.<\/p>\n

In this situation I was dealing with both problems but I fired away anyway because with birds you just never know what you might capture.<\/p>\n

When ‘he’ roused unexpectedly he transformed into…<\/p>\n

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1\/3200, f\/7.1, 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

some kind of monstrosity.<\/p>\n

To me this incredible mass of feathers looks like two birds of different colors and patterns, one on top of the other, with the head of the bottom bird hidden behind the sparrow’s breast. There seems to be a clear delineation between the ‘two birds’ and there appears to be far too many feathers for a single bird anyway.<\/p>\n

So every time I look at the photo I see two birds. I truly do. Is it just me?<\/p>\n

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1\/3200, f\/7.1, 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

Less than a second later he had magically turned back into a single bird and flew off.<\/p>\n

I don’t recall having ever seen anything quite like that second photo so I had to share.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Note: Just to be clear, none of these photos have been manipulated in any way. All I did during processing was crop and sharpen.<\/em><\/p>\n

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To me this (second photo) almost looks like two birds, one on top of the other. In fact there’s very little ‘almost’ about it – that’s what I see. But it’s a single Song Sparrow.<\/p>\n

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