{"id":11955,"date":"2013-12-16T04:45:38","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T10:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=11955"},"modified":"2025-11-22T05:39:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T11:39:00","slug":"fire-in-the-sky-fog-and-a-female-american-kestrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2013\/12\/16\/fire-in-the-sky-fog-and-a-female-american-kestrel\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire In The Sky, Fog And A Female American Kestrel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FireFire Rainbow – Circumhorizontal arc or a Fog Bow? <\/span><\/p>\n

I love to be at my shooting location before the sun rises and yesterday, as normal, I was there before the sun peeked over the Wasatch Mountain Range. Even though there was heavy fog in the valley there was blue sky straight above me.<\/p>\n

I happened to look up towards where I thought the sun would rise over the mountains and saw what looks to be a fire in the sky.<\/p>\n

This might be what is called a “Fire Rainbow” (Circumhorizontal arc) or some phenomena caused by me looking up through the fog but whatever it was it was beautiful.<\/p>\n

\"FarmingtonFarmington Bay WMA in a heavy fog<\/span><\/p>\n

This is what it looked like for quite some time yesterday morning at Farmington Bay Wildlife Management Area, there was plenty of thick, heavy fog.<\/p>\n

By the time I took this image the sun had risen over the Wasatch Mountains and I wasn’t seeing anymore “Fire in the Sky”. Just the fog.<\/p>\n

\"FemaleFemale American Kestrel on a rusty perch – Nikon D300, f7.1, 1\/1000, ISO 400, +0.7 EV, Nikkor 200-400mm VR with 1.4x TC at 400mm, natural light, not baited<\/span><\/p>\n

The fog generally dissipates slowly after the sun rises and burns it off and fortunately it did yesterday so\u00a0I could photograph this little female American Kestrel (here<\/a><\/span>) who is the same\u00a0kestrel I photographed a few days ago in low light, foggy conditions as the snow fell and she dined on an American Pipit.<\/p>\n

It was delightful to photograph the female kestrel in much better light\u00a0but once again there was an air boat revving its engine not too far away. Boy they are loud.<\/p>\n

The duck hunters are almost as persistent about being out early in the morning to scoot out into the marshes as I am to be on location bright and early. Okay, maybe it is a tie.<\/p>\n

The American Kestrel had just finished devouring a small bird of some sort, I really couldn’t tell what it was because there were only a few small feathers left by the time I spotted the tiny falcon and pointed her out.<\/p>\n

\"FemaleAmerican Kestrel lifting off\u00a0– Nikon D300, f7.1, 1\/1000, ISO 400, +0.7 EV, Nikkor 200-400mm VR with 1.4x TC at 400mm, natural light, not baited<\/span><\/p>\n

The female American Kestrel<\/span><\/a> sure was beautiful in the soft morning light with hoar frost covered vegetation in the background.<\/p>\n

Yesterday I had sparrows, fog, a few distant Bald eagles, frost, snow-covered mountains, the marsh, this American Kestrel, and a fire in the sky.<\/p>\n

Yeah, I love what I do.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a><\/span> to see more of my American Kestrel photos plus facts and information about this species. Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my landscape photos of Farmington Bay WMA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The American Kestrel had just finished devouring a small bird of some sort, I really couldn’t tell what it was because there were only a few small feathers left by the time I spotted the tiny falcon and when we stopped to photographer her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":164444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_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":[152,27,1022,697,26,7641],"tags":[4004,155,970,2405,4199,4078,4279,4620,4070,2404,6276,4892,4421,4282,4094,16982,4104,1164,7640,4095],"class_list":["post-11955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-kestrel","category-avian","category-davis-county-utah","category-farmington-bay-wma","category-utah","category-weather-phenomena","tag-adult","tag-american-kestrel","tag-autumn","tag-circumhorizontal-arc","tag-falco-sparverius","tag-falcon","tag-falcons","tag-fall","tag-female","tag-fire-rainbow","tag-kestrel","tag-kestrels","tag-lake-fog","tag-lift-off","tag-marsh","tag-optical-phenomenon","tag-perched","tag-wasatch-mountain-range","tag-weather-phenomena","tag-wetlands"],"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