{"id":98959,"date":"2021-06-05T05:44:45","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T11:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=98959"},"modified":"2021-06-05T05:44:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T11:44:45","slug":"yellow-warbler-eating-an-aphid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/05\/yellow-warbler-eating-an-aphid\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellow Warbler Eating An Aphid"},"content":{"rendered":"

An itty bitty snack.<\/p>\n

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1\/6400, 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’m always interested in documenting what birds are eating, even when it’s very small. Maybe especially<\/em> when it’s small because those types of snacks are harder to see in my photos and birds eat them so quickly they usually go unnoticed. Or at least unidentified.<\/p>\n

I photographed this Yellow Warbler in the mountains four days ago and even though the bird was small in the original frame I still had enough detail to see the food item in its bill. I believe it’s an aphid.<\/p>\n

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Most aphids I see are green but they can be green, yellow, brown, red or black. This one appears to be reddish brown.<\/p>\n

I can’t imagine how many of these tiny sap-sucking insects are required to fuel the frenzied activities of hyperactive birds like warblers. Which partially explains why warblers tend to be so difficult to photograph well – in their quest to get enough food they’re constantly flitting around in the bushes and trees at almost warp speed.<\/p>\n

Moving targets indeed.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Note to photographers:<\/em><\/p>\n

As I said this bird was small in the frame to start with. In order to see the aphid as clearly as possible the second version of the photo above was cropped to only 7.5% of the original photo (1.5 MP of 20 MP). So even though the loss of image quality in such a severe crop is substantial and obvious I was still pleased with the sharpness and detail.<\/em><\/p>\n

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An itty bitty snack.<\/p>\n

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