{"id":91483,"date":"2020-11-17T05:24:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T12:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=91483"},"modified":"2020-11-17T06:07:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T13:07:31","slug":"american-pipit-after-the-bath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/17\/american-pipit-after-the-bath\/","title":{"rendered":"American Pipit – After The Bath"},"content":{"rendered":"

I try to avoid assigning emotions to birds (not always successfully) but I swear this was one joyful little pipit.<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, 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

I found this guy yesterday morning at Farmington Bay WMA. ‘He’ had recently bathed in one of the many nearby puddles and hopped up onto the wire for some exuberant shaking and preening. All the effort required to dry off sure didn’t seem like a chore to him, I had the distinct impression he was enjoying the hell out of the entire process.<\/p>\n

Notice the length of the nails on the hallux of this bird. Pipits are known for having unusually long hind claws.<\/em><\/p>\n

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1\/5000, 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

I never did notice water drops flying off of him but he must have still been damp enough to require further ‘aeration’.<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, 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

He did more shaking than traditional preening. When he was preening I rarely got light in his eye so I haven’t included any of those photos.<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, 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 some of the shaking photos the fact that his tail is sharper than the tips of his primaries tells me something valuable to me as a photographer. Even a very fast shutter speed of 1\/5000 couldn’t completely prevent motion blur in his wingtips. Because the tail is sharper than the wingtips that tells me it’s probably more of a shutter speed issue than a depth of field issue.<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, 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

I always enjoy seeing the warped feather shapes produced by shaking birds.<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, 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

At one point he chose to draw one of his front toes through the entire length of his bill. In the next three photos in the burst I can see his toe moving through his bill and toward its tip.<\/p>\n

But it was an extremely awkward maneuver so…<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, 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

he damn near fell off the wire at the end of it. Here we can still see the tip of one of his claws behind his neck as he struggles to stay on the wire..<\/p>\n

Just goes to show there’s more than one way to be embarrassed when you put your foot in your mouth.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Note: I don’t avoid assigning emotions to birds because I think they don’t have them. I try to avoid it because it’s so often difficult to interpret them accurately. Who am I to say how they’re feeling…<\/em><\/p>\n

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I try to avoid assigning emotions to birds (not always successfully) but I swear this was one joyful little pipit.<\/p>\n

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