{"id":99071,"date":"2021-06-09T05:29:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T11:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=99071"},"modified":"2021-06-09T05:38:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T11:38:00","slug":"a-few-recent-birds-and-a-critter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/09\/a-few-recent-birds-and-a-critter\/","title":{"rendered":"A Few Recent Birds And A Critter"},"content":{"rendered":"

A mixed bag.<\/p>\n

None of these photos is an award winner (well, maybe one comes fairly close – it’s been growing on me) but collectively they should give you a feeling for some of the species I see this time of year and some of the places I visit to photograph them. All of them were taken in the last week in northern Utah.<\/p>\n

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A male Broad-tailed Hummingbird in the Wasatch Mountains. I wasn’t close to him but I like the unusual pointed wing shape as he was in the process of taking off. Because of the way light behaves it isn’t easy to get light in the eye at the same time the flashy gorget is lit up but this time I managed to get both in the same photo. I just wish I’d been closer and had more detail..<\/p>\n

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A handsome Lark Sparrow in golden light posing on a weathered and leaning wooden post at the base of the Stansbury Mountains.<\/p>\n

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A Swainson’s Hawk glaring down at me from a tree near Kamas, Utah.<\/p>\n

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A Tree Swallow in a natural nesting cavity in an aspen tree in the Uinta Mountains.<\/p>\n

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A sopping wet female Red-winged Blackbird shaking off after her bath in an irrigation ditch near Kamas, Utah. I’ll probably lay awake nights wondering how she got her wing in this position without breaking anything.<\/p>\n

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A Uinta Chipmunk grooming itself in its namesake Uinta Mountains. The more time I spend looking at this photo the more I like it.<\/p>\n

So there you have it, a mishmash of species and even of taxonomic Classes representing some of my vertebrate photo subjects over the last week. It’s heavy on birds but with me that’s to be expected.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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A mixed bag.<\/p>\n

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