{"id":14750,"date":"2014-04-14T05:32:57","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T11:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=14750"},"modified":"2025-05-23T11:15:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T16:15:59","slug":"black-billed-magpie-in-flight-over-antelope-island-state-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2014\/04\/14\/black-billed-magpie-in-flight-over-antelope-island-state-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Black-billed Magpie in flight over Antelope Island State Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Black-billedBlack-billed Magpie with wings fully spread in flight – Nikon D200, f6.3, 1\/1250, ISO 400, +0.3 EV, Nikkor 200-400mm VR at 380mm, natural light, not baited<\/span><\/p>\n

In all my visits to Antelope Island State Park I don’t think there has been a single time when I haven’t seen or heard Black-billed Magpies.<\/p>\n

There are times I don’t see the other year round residents of the island including the Bison and Pronghorn but I can always count on seeing magpies.<\/p>\n

Black-billed Magpies have rather noisy calls<\/span><\/a> and some people find that annoying but I don’t mind their calls at all.<\/p>\n

They are elegant looking birds with their strongly marked black and white plumage, their long tails and the flashes of iridescence in certain light.<\/p>\n

In this image I was able to capture that iridescence in almost all of the magpie’s dark plumage as it flew away from it’s nest with mud on it’s bill.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

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

In all my visits to Antelope Island State Park I don’t think there has been a single time when I haven’t seen or heard Black-billed Magpies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146364,"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":[511,27,245,26],"tags":[4004,1813,3981,11978,4052,4122,2148,2151,9070,6005,4842,4167],"class_list":["post-14750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antelope-island-state-park","category-avian","category-black-billed-magpies","category-utah","tag-adult","tag-black-billed-magpie","tag-davis-county","tag-desert-island","tag-flight","tag-flying","tag-iridescence","tag-iridescent-colors","tag-island","tag-magpie","tag-magpies","tag-pica-hudsonia"],"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