{"id":89642,"date":"2020-09-20T05:54:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-20T11:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=89642"},"modified":"2020-09-20T05:59:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-20T11:59:45","slug":"warbling-vireo-too-much-of-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/20\/warbling-vireo-too-much-of-a-good-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Warbling Vireo – Too Much Of A Good Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

When it comes to Warbling Vireos I seem to get one extreme or the other.<\/p>\n

In 13 years of bird photography I believe I’ve only photographed a Warbling Vireo three times and most of those photos were mediocre at best, in large part because I was too far away for high quality images.<\/p>\n

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1\/4000, f\/5.6, ISO 1600, 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 five days ago in the Stansbury Mountains this one pulled a switcheroo on me and came in too close<\/em>. This photo is full frame (uncropped) except for a sliver of canvas I removed from the right side of the frame for composition purposes.<\/p>\n

I didn’t have time to adjust camera settings so at f\/5.6 very little of the vireo is truly sharp. I had my active focus point on the bird’s eye but even its head isn’t tack sharp because I believe I was just a few millimeters closer than the minimum focusing distance of my lens.<\/p>\n

I know, I know – this kind of thing happens fairly regularly to every bird photographer but I take it personally when the trickster is a rare bird for me. Blog readers tend to see only my successes but frustrations like this are a bigger part of my life in the field than triumphs ever are so reporting on this incident helps to paint a more accurate picture of what it takes to get some of the photos I do.<\/p>\n

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When I left the area to look for more birds I was feeling pretty glum because I suspected that my photos of the vireo wouldn’t be quite sharp enough. But a short distance down the road a furry critter brought the beginnings of a smile back to my face.<\/p>\n

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It was ‘just’ a cottontail but unlike most of them in the mountains this little lagomorph was trusting and even friendly. As ‘he’ was looking for vegetation to chew on he came in so close I had to switch to my ‘baby lens’. I believe he would have taken my mind off of my vireo frustrations for quite some time but when a woodpecker flew by (a Downy I believe) he disappeared like a shot beneath a nearby juniper tree. Spooky little guy.<\/p>\n

Five days later I still appreciate him taking my mind off of my vireo experience.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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When it comes to Warbling Vireos I seem to get one extreme or the other.<\/p>\n

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