{"id":115787,"date":"2023-09-10T04:08:50","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T10:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=115787"},"modified":"2023-09-10T04:45:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T10:45:06","slug":"nature-center-parking-lot-lesser-goldfinch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2023\/09\/10\/nature-center-parking-lot-lesser-goldfinch\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature Center Parking Lot Lesser Goldfinch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I photographed this Lesser Goldfinch from the nature center parking lot of Farmington Bay WMA last week. Would you have known that if I hadn&#8217;t mentioned it?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter wp-image-115783 size-full\" title=\"Lesser Goldfinch in a tree\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lesser-goldfinch-tree-sky-mia-mcpherson-9828.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lesser-goldfinch-tree-sky-mia-mcpherson-9828.jpg\" alt=\"Lesser Goldfinch in a tree, Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah\" width=\"900\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27900%27%20height%3D%27643%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20900%20643%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27900%27%20height%3D%27643%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lesser-goldfinch-tree-sky-mia-mcpherson-9828-200x143.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lesser-goldfinch-tree-sky-mia-mcpherson-9828-250x179.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lesser-goldfinch-tree-sky-mia-mcpherson-9828-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lesser-goldfinch-tree-sky-mia-mcpherson-9828-400x286.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lesser-goldfinch-tree-sky-mia-mcpherson-9828-600x429.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lesser-goldfinch-tree-sky-mia-mcpherson-9828-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lesser-goldfinch-tree-sky-mia-mcpherson-9828-800x572.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lesser-goldfinch-tree-sky-mia-mcpherson-9828.jpg 900w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Lesser Goldfinch in a tree \u2013 Nikon D500, f10, 1\/1000, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Most likely not unless you were familiar with that parking lot and the tree in it.<\/p>\n<p>The reason I bring that up is that there are probably photographers who wouldn&#8217;t even look in that tree for birds because it somehow this location doesn&#8217;t feel pure or natural.<\/p>\n<p>But here is what I believe: I&#8217;ll look for birds everywhere, and I have. City dumps, grocery store parking lots, from the windows of skyscrapers and airplanes, the decks of cruise liners, and from my Jeep. It really doesn&#8217;t matter to me where I find birds or if the &#8216;hand of man&#8217; is in the resulting photos.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Because birds are adaptable, and they have learned to coexist with the changes humans have caused and introduced into their environment.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>And if I were a purist?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t be photographing birds at Farmington Bay WMA, <em>at all<\/em>, because, chances are there isn&#8217;t much within its entire acreage that hasn&#8217;t been impacted or altered by human activities. That applies to many of the areas I go to when I head out to look for birds.<\/p>\n<p>The tree in which this <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lesser_goldfinch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Lesser Goldfinch<\/span><\/a> is perched is growing between parking strips, and its seed was likely introduced during construction or sometime after the parking lot was built. The tree is thriving despite the fact that humans have paved over that section of the wetlands surrounding the nature center.<\/p>\n<p>My visit to Farmington Bay WMA made me sad in several ways which I hope to write about at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>But this Lesser Goldfinch in that parking lot tree? The lone, lovely goldfinch made me smile.<\/p>\n<p>Life <em>is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n<p>Mia<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/lesser-goldfinch-images\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Lesser Goldfinch photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I photographed this Lesser Goldfinch from the nature center parking lot of Farmington Bay WMA last week. Would you have known that if I hadn&#8217;t mentioned it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115783,"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":[27,1022,697,7795,26],"tags":[6577,12043,3504,3495,6198,6199,6583,7798,4094,10562,4104,4018,7796,2315,4427,4095],"class_list":["post-115787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-davis-county-utah","category-farmington-bay-wma","category-lesser-goldfinches","category-utah","tag-branches","tag-female-immature","tag-finch","tag-finches","tag-goldfinch","tag-goldfinches","tag-leaves","tag-lesser-goldfinch","tag-marsh","tag-parking-lot","tag-perched","tag-sky","tag-spinus-psaltria","tag-summer-3","tag-tree","tag-wetlands"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lesser-goldfinch-tree-sky-mia-mcpherson-9828.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-u7x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":117113,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2023\/10\/17\/male-lesser-goldfinch-images\/","url_meta":{"origin":115787,"position":0},"title":"Male Lesser Goldfinch Images","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"October 17, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"I was thrilled to take several male Lesser Goldfinch images on my last trip to Farmington Bay WMA. 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