{"id":89190,"date":"2020-09-03T05:37:48","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T11:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=89190"},"modified":"2020-09-03T05:37:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T11:37:48","slug":"song-sparrow-in-a-river-hawthorn-amongst-the-berries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/03\/song-sparrow-in-a-river-hawthorn-amongst-the-berries\/","title":{"rendered":"Song Sparrow In A River Hawthorn Amongst The Berries"},"content":{"rendered":"

Song Sparrows don’t generate a lot of excitement but I think this is an unusually handsome specimen in a pretty setting.<\/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

In the mountains two days ago this Song Sparrow landed in a River Hawthorn quite close to me. For a few moments ‘he’ scurried around in the leaves as he apparently looked for food. But then he stopped here and looked directly into my pickup for a few moments as if he was curious about both my pickup and its contents. Clicking camera shutters probably contributed to his curiosity.<\/span><\/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

This was about the extent of his pose variety but I was pleased to photograph such a dandy looking sparrow in an attractive setting like this. The bird and the entire perch are sharp, the leaves are in their prime and attractive and I think the foreground berries add a lot, complemented by the splotches of color provided by the out of focus berries in the background.<\/p>\n

Typically in my photographs I prefer to have less of the bird hidden from view than this but in this case, because the leaves and berries are so attractive, I think the setting and the bird deserve equal billing.<\/p>\n

As I roll along from day to day and month to month with Feathered Photography I sometimes become aware that once again I’ve been mostly ignoring many of the common species that contribute so much to our enjoyment of birds. When it comes to birds I don’t think ‘common’ implies less worth, it only means there are more of them.\u00a0And that’s a good thing.<\/p>\n

Imagine a world without the common species.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Song Sparrows don’t generate a lot of excitement but I think this is an unusually handsome specimen in a pretty setting.<\/p>\n

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