{"id":88794,"date":"2020-08-22T05:55:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T11:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=88794"},"modified":"2020-08-22T06:08:46","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T12:08:46","slug":"a-sampling-of-recent-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/22\/a-sampling-of-recent-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sampling Of Recent Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Avian potpourri from the last nine days. Seven photos, seven species.<\/p>\n

None of them will win any awards but I think each has something to offer. Sorry, I ran out of time to provide image techs for this many photos.<\/p>\n

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An Eastern Kingbird and sunflowers. The flowers seem to soften the harshness of the barbed wire and I like that contrast..<\/p>\n

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An American White Pelican only minutes after sunrise. I was a little too close so the photo is full frame (uncropped).<\/p>\n

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A young and heavily molting Gray Catbird. This bird came in so close to my pickup I had to switch to my smaller zoom lens.<\/p>\n

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A Black-headed Grosbeak. For some reason this species has been unusually difficult for me to photograph so I’m allowing this bird some leeway with the somewhat cluttered setting and obscuring twigs.<\/p>\n

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A Barn Swallow contemplating a sunflower. This is the same bird that ruined my plans for flight shots by taking off directly at me<\/a><\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n

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A fluffed up and side lit Cedar Waxwing with a fully erected crest.<\/p>\n

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A female Western Tanager studying my pickup and its contents intently. I believe this pose was her reaction to the staccato sounds of two camera shutters firing in bursts.<\/p>\n

Yes I know, the shadows. But I think she’s cute.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Avian potpourri from the last nine days. Seven photos, seven species.<\/p>\n

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