{"id":89233,"date":"2020-09-05T05:25:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T11:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=89233"},"modified":"2020-09-05T06:27:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T12:27:47","slug":"american-goldfinch-in-early-fall-colors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/05\/american-goldfinch-in-early-fall-colors\/","title":{"rendered":"American Goldfinch In Early Fall Colors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another installment in my intermittent series on the ‘common’ species. They don’t come much more common than a goldfinch on thistle or sunflowers..<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"89234\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/05\/american-goldfinch-in-early-fall-colors\/american-goldfinch-3961-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/american-goldfinch-3961-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,668\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"7.1","credit":"RON DUDLEY","camera":"Canon EOS 7D Mark II","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1599117484","copyright":"","focal_length":"700","iso":"250","shutter_speed":"0.000625","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"american goldfinch 3961 ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/american-goldfinch-3961-ron-dudley-300x223.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/american-goldfinch-3961-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-89234 size-full\" title=\"american-goldfinch-3961-ron-dudley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/american-goldfinch-3961-ron-dudley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/american-goldfinch-3961-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/american-goldfinch-3961-ron-dudley-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/american-goldfinch-3961-ron-dudley-768x570.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/american-goldfinch-3961-ron-dudley-150x111.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>1\/1600, f\/7.1, ISO 250, 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<p>I found this one two days ago in a mountain valley. Many of our goldfinches are looking extremely ragged right now but the plumage of this one is in pretty good shape. In this shot early fall colors complement those of the goldfinch, a combination that may or may not appeal to viewers.<\/p>\n<p>The American Goldfinch is one of the latest breeders of all North American songbirds and on the morning I took this photo they were still feeding hungry fledglings as they clamored for food. Somehow that timing seemed a little wonky to me but it isn’t.<\/p>\n<p>It’s my intention to post several more ‘common’ species in the days and weeks to come. I’ve been guilty of mostly ignoring them on Feathered Photography for far too long.<\/p>\n<p>I guess it’s my attempt at redemption.<\/p>\n<p>Ron<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><em>Notes to photographers:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Yes, I surely was tempted to clone out that distracting bright yellow stem in the upper left corner of the frame but I resisted.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>I’ll confess to another reason I decided to post this photo. I wanted to demonstrate that I actually <\/em><em>DO shoot at lower ISO’s on occasion… \ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another installment in my intermittent series on the ‘common’ species. They don’t come much more common than a goldfinch on thistle.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/05\/american-goldfinch-in-early-fall-colors\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1756,334],"tags":[1757,1695,3625,4734,2317,4700,311],"class_list":["post-89233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-goldfinch","category-birds","tag-american-goldfinch-2","tag-common-bird-species","tag-fall-colors","tag-redemption","tag-spinis-tristis","tag-thistle","tag-utah-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/american-goldfinch-3961-ron-dudley.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zzJh-ndf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}