{"id":15339,"date":"2014-07-07T04:57:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T10:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=15339"},"modified":"2025-05-19T09:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T14:33:08","slug":"mountain-bluebird-female-hopping-into-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2014\/07\/07\/mountain-bluebird-female-hopping-into-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Bluebird female – Hopping into Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LeapingLeaping female Mountain Bluebird – Nikon D7100, f6.3, 1\/2000, ISO 500, +0.7 EV, Nikkor 200-400mm VR with 1.4x TC at 357mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

Some times when I am photographing I capture my subjects in funny poses and I think I did\u00a0exactly that with this Mountain Bluebird female. If I didn’t know what happened in the frames I shot after this one I might wonder what the bluebird is doing. Is she landing? Using the fence post as a trampoline?<\/p>\n

She is just lifting off from the fence post and in this frame her wings had not opened yet.<\/p>\n

I photographed her last week in the Centennial Valley of Montana. Some of the bluebirds there are re-nesting now because they lost their first broods to a late cold snap & snow.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

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

Some times when I am photographing I capture my subjects in funny poses and I think I did exactly that with this Mountain Bluebird female. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145095,"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":[1513,27,223,12,1369,608],"tags":[4004,5933,4880,4070,898,4882,1027,4282,4944,228,4339,2315,3792,5428,4881,5434,8917],"class_list":["post-15339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beaverhead-county-montana","category-avian","category-centennial-valley","category-montana","category-mountain-bluebirds","category-red-rock-lakes-national-wildlife-refuge","tag-adult","tag-bluebird","tag-bluebirds","tag-female","tag-fence-post","tag-hopping","tag-leaping","tag-lift-off","tag-lifting-off","tag-mountain-bluebird","tag-sialia-currucoides","tag-summer-3","tag-take-off","tag-taking-off","tag-thrushes","tag-valley","tag-wooden-post"],"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