{"id":37497,"date":"2016-03-27T06:20:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T12:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=37497"},"modified":"2026-04-28T05:58:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T10:58:36","slug":"adult-western-kingbird-close-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2016\/03\/27\/adult-western-kingbird-close-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Adult Western Kingbird Close Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AdultAdult Western Kingbird – Nikon D7100, f9, 1\/1600, ISO 500, +.7 EV, Nikkor 200-400mm VR with 1.4x TC at 300mm, natural light
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Even though spring has arrived in northern Utah the weather is still very changeable and when I go out into the field to find birds I never quite know what I might see, especially when a weather front is coming in or has just passed. I do know that I keep my eyes wide open and my ears tuned in for familiar and unfamiliar sounds. You just never know what you might see.<\/p>\n

I haven’t seen or heard kingbirds yet this year but I expect to see one any day now. I enjoy seeing kingbirds hawking for prey, building their nests and chasing other birds out of their territory. They are quite vocal and many times I hear them before I see them.<\/p>\n

This adult Western Kingbird close up was photographed two years ago on Antelope Island State Park<\/span><\/a> as it perched on a sign post close to a nest site. I can’t remember if it was looking for prey or keeping an eye on an intruder but I remember being grateful that it perched so close that I could see wonderful details in its plumage.<\/p>\n

Spring is such an exciting time for me as a bird photographer because of the migrants that are trickling in to breed here or the ones that pass through heading much further north to their nesting grounds and it is a change of pace from all of the birds I photograph during the winter.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

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

This adult Western Kingbird close up was photographed two years ago on Antelope Island State Park as it perched on a sign post close to a nest site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":163171,"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":[511,27,1022,26,534],"tags":[4004,4142,4098,3808,4884,9070,3791,3772,4104,4394,4018,4183,298,4411,8917],"class_list":["post-37497","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-western-kingbirds","tag-adult","tag-close-up","tag-desert","tag-flycatcher","tag-flycatchers","tag-island","tag-kingbird","tag-kingbirds","tag-perched","tag-post","tag-sky","tag-tyrannus-verticalis","tag-tyrant-flycatchers-2","tag-western-kingbird","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