{"id":106437,"date":"2022-09-22T04:44:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T10:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=106437"},"modified":"2023-09-22T03:10:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T09:10:36","slug":"long-tailed-weasel-close-up-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2022\/09\/22\/long-tailed-weasel-close-up-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-tailed Weasel Close Up Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Long-tailedLong-tailed Weasel portrait on the last day of summer \u2013 Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/2000, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

I am thrilled to share these Long-tailed Weasel photos taken on the last full day of summer at Farmington Bay WMA which are all thanks to a Rock Wren<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"RockRock Wren at Farmington Bay \u2013 Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/3200, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

The Rock Wren caught my eyes and my attention. I rapidly decided to move closer to the wren so I could get frame-filling images of it, and I did. While I was photographing the wren I caught movement in my peripheral vision and saw the Long-tailed Weasel moving around on the rock pile the wren was perched on.<\/p>\n

\"Long-tailedLong-tailed Weasel close up on a rock \u2013 Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/2000, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

Trying to photograph the weasel was challenging because it appeared to be on the hunt. The weasel never stopped for more than a second or two and was in hyper-drive the rest of the time.<\/p>\n

\"Long-tailedLong-tailed Weasel staring at me \u2013 Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/2000, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

The brown and yellowish weasel was also close to me. I was so close that I could only take portraits of it. Incredibly, it was harder tracking the weasel up close than it would have been if I had been farther away from it.<\/p>\n

\"CuriousCurious Long-tailed Weasel on a rock \u2013 Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/2500, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

When the Long-tailed Weasel slowed down and stopped moving I was more than delighted to take these portraits of it. A few times, it even appeared that the weasel was curious about me sitting in my Jeep taking images of it.<\/p>\n

\"FocusedFocused Long-tailed Weasel \u2013 Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/2000, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

Most of the time I had the weasel in my viewfinder it looked as though it was focused on something else. Something I wasn’t seeing that the weasel was zeroed in on.<\/p>\n

\"Long-tailedLong-tailed Weasel with a leaning rock \u2013 Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/2000, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

After the weasel moved to another spot I took off my teleconverter as I drove forward in the hopes that I could get some full-body images of the striking furry creature. I was only able to get a few photos of the weasel standing and resting on a leaning rock before it completely disappeared from my view.<\/p>\n

I was so excited to take these photos of the Long-tailed Weasel<\/span><\/a> that my senses were tingling all the way home.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a><\/span> to see more of my Long-tailed Weasel photos plus facts and information about this species. Click here<\/a><\/span> to see more of my Rock Wren photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning I am thrilled to share these Long-tailed Weasel photos taken on the last full day of summer at Farmington Bay WMA which are all thanks to a Rock Wren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,1022,697,1157,6857,26,99],"tags":[4004,4142,6010,8434,6821,2416,1632,4094,4784,1162,4046,4921,2436,4470,6858,5875,2315,9880,2774,2775,4095,5802,3822],"class_list":["post-106437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-davis-county-utah","category-farmington-bay-wma","category-long-tailed-weasels","category-rock-wrens","category-utah","category-wildlife","tag-adult","tag-close-up","tag-curious","tag-focused","tag-leaning","tag-long-tailed-weasel","tag-mammals","tag-marsh","tag-mustelids","tag-neogale-frenata","tag-portrait","tag-rock","tag-rock-wren","tag-rocks","tag-salpinctes-obsoletus","tag-staring","tag-summer-3","tag-summer-coat","tag-weasel","tag-weasels","tag-wetlands","tag-wren","tag-wrens"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t