{"id":35767,"date":"2016-02-18T05:58:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T12:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=35767"},"modified":"2025-07-26T15:35:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T20:35:31","slug":"a-juvenile-white-crowned-sparrow-photobombing-an-adult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2016\/02\/18\/a-juvenile-white-crowned-sparrow-photobombing-an-adult\/","title":{"rendered":"A Juvenile White-crowned Sparrow Photobombing an Adult"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AdultAdult White-crowned Sparrow perched – Nikon D810, f6.3, 1\/640, ISO 500, +0.7 EV, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light
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I was going through older photos I took last February and came across some White-crowned Sparrow images I had taken on Antelope Island State Park<\/span><\/a> in the White Rock Bay area that I hadn’t edited or posted before.<\/p>\n

Among those files was this adult White-Crowned Sparrow perched on a bare branch of a greasewood that I liked because of the sparrow’s head turn, the light in its eye, the smooth, creamy background and how the sparrow was framed by the bare branches.<\/p>\n

I locked my focus on the sparrow and took a nice series of this adult in a burst…<\/p>\n

\"JuvenileJuvenile White-crowned Sparrow photobombing an adult – Nikon D810, f6.3, 1\/800, ISO 500, +0.7 EV, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

And I ended up capturing an image of a juvenile White-crowned Sparrow photobombing the adult just a few frames later. I was so focused on the adult I didn’t even see the juvenile flying in.<\/p>\n

Normally I would have deleted this image but over the past couple of years I have begun to keep images of photobombs.<\/p>\n

noun: photobomb<\/strong>; plural noun: photobombs<\/strong>; noun: photo bomb<\/strong>; plural noun: photo bombs:<\/strong><\/p>\n

a photograph that has been spoiled by the unexpected appearance of an unintended subject in the camera’s field of view as the picture was taken.<\/em><\/p>\n

I keep them because they make me laugh.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

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

I ended up capturing an image of a juvenile White-crowned Sparrow photobombing the adult just a few frames later. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150992,"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":[511,27,1022,26,356],"tags":[4004,4052,4071,4104,2644,4195,1165,4327,4256],"class_list":["post-35767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antelope-island-state-park","category-avian","category-davis-county-utah","category-utah","category-white-crowned-sparrows","tag-adult","tag-flight","tag-juvenile","tag-perched","tag-photobomb","tag-sparrows","tag-white-rock-bay","tag-white-crowned-sparrow","tag-zonotrichia-leucophrys"],"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