Category: Thrashers and Mockingbird
Some Birds From Yesterday
Sage Thrasher – A True Sign Of Spring
Sage Thrasher Rising Out Of Its Namesake Sagebrush
Sage Thrasher – Faster Than A Speeding Bullet
Clumsy Sage Thrasher Trying To Adjust Its Perch
Sage Thrashers – Courtship Display And Prey For Their Youngsters
Sage Thrashers In A Springtime Frenzy
Sage Thrasher In A Dramatic Flight Turn
The Balancing Act of Shutter Speed, ISO and Wing Motion-blur
Sage Thrasher Bilateral Wing Display
Male Sage Thrashers perform what is called the “Bilateral Wing Display” during courtship and territory establishment. Yesterday morning I was able to photograph the behavior on Antelope Island and though I wish I’d been a little closer I had decent light, a pretty good view of the bird and he performed for me for several minutes so I shouldn’t complain.
Iridescent Magpie In Flight (and an “early bird” of another species)
Yearning For Sage Thrashers
Sage Thrasher Posing For Me
Northern Mockingbird Displaying In Low Light
On a dark, cloudy morning on Antelope Island last month I had an opportunity with a displaying Northern Mockingbird. The shooting conditions were difficult but I decided to play at the edge of the limits of my gear and see what I could get. These shots are not sequential of the same take-off and landing but in the order I’ve presented them I think they illustrate the behavior reasonably well.
Some Birds From Yesterday
Sage Thrasher – A True Sign Of Spring
Sage Thrasher Rising Out Of Its Namesake Sagebrush
Sage Thrasher – Faster Than A Speeding Bullet
Clumsy Sage Thrasher Trying To Adjust Its Perch
Sage Thrashers – Courtship Display And Prey For Their Youngsters
Sage Thrashers In A Springtime Frenzy
Sage Thrasher In A Dramatic Flight Turn
The Balancing Act of Shutter Speed, ISO and Wing Motion-blur
Sage Thrasher Bilateral Wing Display
Male Sage Thrashers perform what is called the “Bilateral Wing Display” during courtship and territory establishment. Yesterday morning I was able to photograph the behavior on Antelope Island and though I wish I’d been a little closer I had decent light, a pretty good view of the bird and he performed for me for several minutes so I shouldn’t complain.
Iridescent Magpie In Flight (and an “early bird” of another species)
Yearning For Sage Thrashers
Sage Thrasher Posing For Me
Northern Mockingbird Displaying In Low Light
On a dark, cloudy morning on Antelope Island last month I had an opportunity with a displaying Northern Mockingbird. The shooting conditions were difficult but I decided to play at the edge of the limits of my gear and see what I could get. These shots are not sequential of the same take-off and landing but in the order I’ve presented them I think they illustrate the behavior reasonably well.