{"id":99488,"date":"2021-06-22T05:41:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T11:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=99488"},"modified":"2021-06-22T05:41:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T11:41:08","slug":"house-wrens-at-and-near-their-nest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/22\/house-wrens-at-and-near-their-nest\/","title":{"rendered":"House Wrens At And Near Their Nest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday in the mountains was a House Wren kind of day.<\/p>\n

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Yesterday morning while driving slowly on a dirt road in the mountains we spotted several House Wrens near the road and stopped to see if we could get lucky with some interesting photos. I suspect this is the male of a mated pair about to deliver food to his chicks in the nest. He made his trip to the nest in stops and starts – this was the first time I got my lens on him.<\/p>\n

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I was able to get a few to a lot of photos of him at each stop as he approached the nest with what looked to me like a spider.<\/p>\n

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I’m not sure why he didn’t fly directly to the nest but eventually he…<\/p>\n

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did make it. The nest was exactly where I expected it to be, inside a rusty old pipe at the top of a barricade constructed of the same pipe. I could see nesting material inside the pipe.<\/p>\n

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He entered the pipe with the spider and…<\/p>\n

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came out without it.<\/p>\n

After this both wrens were flitting into and out of the nest so I gave up even trying to keep track of which was which. It was largely a guessing game anyway.<\/p>\n

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This one spent a long time on this perch singing and…<\/p>\n

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preening.<\/p>\n

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But I was closest to the wrens while they were perched on top of the pipe containing their nest so those photos have the best detail.<\/p>\n

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The pipe may have been an unattractive perch but the wrens like it so I can put up with it. I love this perky pose.<\/p>\n

When this bird took off I was actually able to…<\/p>\n

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keep ‘him’ in frame, which is more than a small accomplishment with these incredibly quick little birds. But in my view the only redeeming quality of this photo is its degree of difficulty because most of the bird is a little too soft.<\/p>\n

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My session with these flitty wrens was a real workout for the photographer. I was shooting out my pickup window at an awkward and very uncomfortable angle so 35 minutes and 1056 photos later I was almost relieved when the wrens became much less active and I decided to drive down the road and look for other birds.<\/p>\n

Now the daunting task will be to get all those images culled.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Image techs for most of these photos were 1\/2500 – 1\/5000, f\/6.3, ISO 500 – 800, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender<\/em><\/p>\n

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Yesterday in the mountains was a House Wren kind of day.<\/p>\n

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