{"id":89053,"date":"2020-08-30T04:40:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T10:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=89053"},"modified":"2020-08-30T04:51:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T10:51:25","slug":"immature-western-tanager-after-a-dainty-bath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/30\/immature-western-tanager-after-a-dainty-bath\/","title":{"rendered":"Immature Western Tanager After A Dainty Bath"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plus a local man has died after likely being gored by a bison on Antelope Island.<\/p>\n

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1\/4000, 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

There’s a seep right below me at one of my favorite shooting spots in the mountains where birds often bathe. I can’t see the seep through all the vegetation but it’s obviously there because there’s water nearby and birds of many species are constantly going into it dry and coming out wet.<\/p>\n

Five days ago this wet Western Tanager landed close to me and above the seep. Only its breast was wet so I suspect it had taken a dainty bath by dipping only its breast into the water as birds sometimes do. I’m leaning toward this bird being a juvenile but I can’t be sure.<\/p>\n

I’m ambivalent about the branch above the tanager’s head. I think it’s so close to the bird that it’s visually confining but I’ll admit to liking the way the combination of that branch and the perch frame the bird, with open space in the direction the tanager is looking.<\/p>\n

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1\/4000, 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

Then the tanager turned to its right and immediately after this photo was taken it took off in that direction and away from me. The two branches are even more confining now but at least it’s a different pose.<\/p>\n

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1\/4000, 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

A few minutes later this adult female tanager landed even closer to me and in a more cluttered setting. I was struck by how much brighter the yellows are in this bird than in the previous (presumed) juvenile. The ventral yellows in adult female tanagers are “highly variable” and they seem quite bright in this individual.<\/p>\n

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On an unrelated and tragic note:<\/p>\n

I was shocked this morning when I woke up to the news that a local man was killed on Antelope Island yesterday, presumably as a result of being gored by a bison. Bison have attacked several people on the island over the years for a variety of reasons (many related to human ignorance) but this is the first death I can recall.<\/p>\n

The incident is still being investigated but it’s my hope that authorities don’t kill the bison involved or overreact by placing undue restrictions on island visitors.<\/p>\n

Details of the incident can be found here<\/a><\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n

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This is a photo from several years ago of a bison on Antelope Island charging a man who got way<\/em> too close in order to take photos with his point and shoot camera. The only reason this clown wasn’t injured or killed was because the bison eventually veered off to our left and abandoned the charge. If the bison had persisted there’s no way in hell this guy could have escaped unscathed.<\/p>\n

Ear buds were found next to the man injured yesterday. We may or may not eventually find out if he was using them at the time of the attack.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Plus a local man has died after likely being gored by a bison on Antelope Island.<\/p>\n

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