{"id":89661,"date":"2020-09-21T16:05:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T22:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=89661"},"modified":"2020-09-21T20:35:52","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T02:35:52","slug":"american-robin-in-diving-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/21\/american-robin-in-diving-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"American Robin In Diving Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><em>I&#8217;m very late posting today. My server was down from the time I got up until midafternoon. It hasn&#8217;t been a fun day.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The moment I saw this photo from yesterday morning on my monitor it became my personal favorite of an American Robin. For me degree of difficulty matters.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"89662\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/21\/american-robin-in-diving-flight\/american-robin-7686-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/american-robin-7686-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,643\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;RON DUDLEY&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 7D Mark II&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1600586026&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;700&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"american robin 7686 ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/american-robin-7686-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-89662 size-full\" title=\"american-robin-7686-ron-dudley.\" src=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/american-robin-7686-ron-dudley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/american-robin-7686-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/american-robin-7686-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/american-robin-7686-ron-dudley-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/american-robin-7686-ron-dudley-150x107.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And no, I&#8217;m not talking about this one. I&#8217;m only including it to help me tell the story.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday morning in the mountains the robins seemed to be going out of their collective mind. There were dozens of them calling, bickering and chasing each other and other birds around. You&#8217;d have thought it was springtime and their reproductive hormones were responsible for the ongoing brouhaha that lasted for a very long time.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the excitement may have been caused by the presence of this hawthorn bush that was loaded with fruit (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pomes<\/a><\/span><\/span> resembling berries). Some of the robins were gorging themselves on the &#8216;berries&#8217; as other robins zoomed around the bush chasing each other.<\/p>\n<p>The hawthorn was at the base of a very steep hill. I noticed one of the robins land on an old fence high on the hill above me and behind the hawthorn so I trained my lens on &#8216;him&#8217; even though he was far away. I had hopes he&#8217;d take off and fly straight down the hill toward me and the hawthorn and I&#8217;d be able to get flight shots as he descended the hill.<\/p>\n<p>This time my strategy paid off.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"89664\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/21\/american-robin-in-diving-flight\/american-robin-7813-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/american-robin-7813-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"720,900\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;RON DUDLEY&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 7D Mark II&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1600586832&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;700&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"american robin 7813 ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/american-robin-7813-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-89664 size-full\" title=\"american-robin-7813-ron-dudley\" src=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/american-robin-7813-ron-dudley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/american-robin-7813-ron-dudley.jpg 720w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/american-robin-7813-ron-dudley-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/american-robin-7813-ron-dudley-120x150.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>1\/5000, f\/5.6, 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<p>I was able to get this single sharp photo as he plunged almost straight down the hill in the general direction of the hawthorn. It may appear like I&#8217;m looking down on him but he was still quite a ways above me, which is evidence of how steeply downward he was hurtling. The steep flight angle combined with his wing position and concentration reminds me a little of a raptor diving on prey.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t photograph robins as often as I should. For me this photo is yet another reminder that the &#8216;common&#8217; species deserve more attention than they get from bird photographers.<\/p>\n<p>Including me.<\/p>\n<p>Ron<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The moment I saw this photo from yesterday morning on my monitor it became my personal favorite of an American Robin.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/21\/american-robin-in-diving-flight\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89663,"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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1734,334,392],"tags":[1735,146,4254,5354,1736,311],"class_list":["post-89661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-robin","category-birds","category-feeding-bird-behaviors","tag-american-robin-2","tag-flight","tag-hawthorn-berries","tag-pome","tag-turdus-migratorius","tag-utah-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/american-robin-7813-horizontal-crop-ron-dudley.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zzJh-nk9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}