{"id":26734,"date":"2015-07-17T05:27:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T11:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=26734"},"modified":"2026-01-31T10:41:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T16:41:17","slug":"a-juvenile-loggerhead-shrike-on-a-tintic-quartzite-boulder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2015\/07\/17\/a-juvenile-loggerhead-shrike-on-a-tintic-quartzite-boulder\/","title":{"rendered":"Juvenile Loggerhead Shrike on a Tintic Quartzite Boulder"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"JuvenileJuvenile Loggerhead Shrike on a Tintic Quartzite Boulder – Nikon D810, f8, 1\/1600, ISO 320, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light
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Antelope Island State Park<\/span><\/a> is full of juvenile Loggerhead Shrikes right now so it looks like the shrikes had a very successful nesting season. I was tickled to photograph this juvenile shrike last week while it was perched on a dark Tintic Quartzite boulder.<\/p>\n

Most of the boulders on the north end of the island are much lighter and which makes getting the exposure set correctly much harder. Plus I don’t often see them perched on the boulders.<\/p>\n

With the bounty of spiders<\/a><\/span> available to feast on the juvenile Loggerhead Shrikes ought to do just fine and become strong adults!<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

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

Antelope Island State Park is full of juvenile Loggerhead Shrikes right now so it looks like the shrikes had a very successful nesting season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":167906,"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":[511,27,1022,247,26],"tags":[4138,4067,4071,4171,4066,4104,3906,3907,2381,3251,4193],"class_list":["post-26734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antelope-island-state-park","category-avian","category-davis-county-utah","category-loggerhead-shrikes","category-utah","tag-boulder","tag-immature","tag-juvenile","tag-lanius-ludovicianus","tag-loggerhead-shrike","tag-perched","tag-shrike","tag-shrikes","tag-spiders","tag-tintic-quartzite","tag-young"],"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