{"id":114177,"date":"2023-07-06T04:25:21","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T10:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=114177"},"modified":"2023-07-06T04:44:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T10:44:59","slug":"young-eastern-bluebird-in-arkansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2023\/07\/06\/young-eastern-bluebird-in-arkansas\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Eastern Bluebird In Arkansas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just a quick post this morning highlighting a young Eastern Bluebird<\/span><\/a> photographed while foraging on the ground in my friend Steve Creek’s yard<\/span><\/a> in Arkansas.<\/p>\n

\"YoungYoung Eastern Bluebird foraging on the ground \u2013 Canon R7, f11, 1\/1000, ISO 2500, -0.3 EV, Canon RF 800 mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

I felt fortunate to be able to take images of adult and young Eastern Bluebirds while I was visiting Steve. Steve has bluebird nest boxes in his large, wonderful yard but I believe this young bird hatched from somewhere else nearby. There were nesting bluebirds in one of Steve’s nest boxes but something killed the chicks in that nest box while I was there.<\/p>\n

I was tickled though when I saw this juvenile foraging on the ground. The bluebird stopped moving long enough for me to take several images of it.<\/p>\n

I see Western and Mountain Bluebirds in northern Utah but never Eastern. I have a few photos of an adult male Eastern Bluebird bathing in Arkansas that I hope to process soon and when I do I will be adding a new photo gallery for this species.<\/p>\n

Seeing and photographing Eastern Bluebirds was a real treat for me and to be able to do that from Steve’s deck while drinking coffee and enjoying his company made it feel even better.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

See my Thrushes and Allies photo galleries here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just a quick post this morning highlighting a young Eastern Bluebird photographed while foraging on the ground in my friend Steve Creek’s yard in Arkansas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13950,27,14094,13951],"tags":[5933,4880,14096,4136,3747,4109,5943,4067,4071,14095,2315,3844,4881,8018,13966,4193],"class_list":["post-114177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arkansas","category-avian","category-eastern-bluebirds","category-sebastian-county","tag-bluebird","tag-bluebirds","tag-eastern-bluebird","tag-foraging","tag-grass","tag-grasses","tag-ground","tag-immature","tag-juvenile","tag-sialia-sialis","tag-summer-3","tag-thrush","tag-thrushes","tag-urban","tag-yard","tag-young"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/eastern-bluebird-young-mia-mcpherson-1570.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-tHz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129969,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2024\/06\/30\/young-eastern-bluebird-second-brood\/","url_meta":{"origin":114177,"position":0},"title":"Young Eastern Bluebird – Second Brood","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"June 30, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"This young Eastern Bluebird is from the second brood in my friend Steve Creek's nest box in Arkansas this year. 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