{"id":91576,"date":"2020-11-20T05:26:39","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T12:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=91576"},"modified":"2020-11-20T05:58:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T12:58:40","slug":"some-recent-birds-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/20\/some-recent-birds-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Recent Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seven photos of six species from this past week.<\/p>\n

For one reason or another these photos didn’t quite pass muster as stand alones but I think each one has something to offer and collectively they’re a reasonably accurate cross section of the birds I’ve been photographing recently.<\/p>\n

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A male American Kestrel at Farmington Bay WMA. The side light is a little strong for my tastes but I don’t get this close to a kestrel every day and I like the detail.<\/p>\n

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A Marsh Wren at Bear River MBR. Normally I don’t appreciate shadows on ‘my’ birds but I think this circular shadow is interesting if not particularly aesthetic. The sidelight coming from the left caused the linear shadow of the perch to be transformed into an arc when it struck the bulging breast of the wren. The effect of the circle was completed by the curved shadow on the bird’s left side.<\/p>\n

Besides, that shadow reminds me of the chocolate donut I had for breakfast within minutes of when the photo was taken.<\/p>\n

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An injured Green-winged Teal at Bear River MBR. Almost certainly this drake was a casualty of the current hunting season (I could hear shotguns all morning). There was a dead drake teal floating in the water nearby and also a hen teal with an injured right wing.<\/p>\n

It was apparent to me that this drake couldn’t fly. Instead of taking off he flattened all his feathers to make himself much less buoyant in the water as he quickly swam to hide in the vegetation. Notice how low in the water he’s swimming.<\/p>\n

It isn’t my intention to turn this photo into a hunter-bashing fest but I thought all the mayhem I witnessed in such a short time should be documented, even though I didn’t include photos of the dead and injured teals.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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An American Kestrel near Farmington Bay WMA making a Red-tailed Hawk pay a price for just existing. The little falcon wasn’t quite as gutsy as the kestrel I photographed recently as it attacked what was very possibly this same hawk so it didn’t come nearly as close. But its point was made.<\/p>\n

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A female Belted Kingfisher at Farmington Bay WMA. I’d been hearing her chattering call all week but this was the first time she allowed me anywhere near her, probably because she’d been in the pre-sunrise shadows until a couple of minutes before this photo was taken.<\/p>\n

Generally I like the extremely warm light at sunrise but I’m less fond of it on very dark birds like kingfishers.<\/p>\n

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When she dived on a fish I managed a single photo of her in flight but there was a damn twig in front of her bill.<\/p>\n

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An immature Great Blue Heron in a goofy pose at Farmington Bay WMA. It was probably watching a bird flying by overhead but the pose was a pretty good imitation of an American Bittern.<\/p>\n

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So there you have it, a cross section of my week in the field. For what it’s worth.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Seven photos of six species from this past week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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