{"id":39864,"date":"2016-06-03T04:35:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T10:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=39864"},"modified":"2025-05-09T14:10:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T19:10:45","slug":"tree-swallow-near-modoc-creek-idaho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2016\/06\/03\/tree-swallow-near-modoc-creek-idaho\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree Swallow near Modoc Creek, Idaho"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TreeTree Swallow near Modoc Creek – Nikon D810, f6.3, 1\/160, ISO 800, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

Tree Swallow nesting season is in high gear in the areas I have been camping at in Idaho and Montana. There is plenty of squabbling going on near nesting cavities, both natural and at man made nesting boxes.<\/p>\n

The males seem happy to stake out a nesting cavity and make all kinds of noises while they do. They can be quite vocal!<\/p>\n

I’ve been using my eyes a lot this trip trying to locate and point out active, natural nesting cavities and I have found a few but while I observed them they weren’t busy with activity.<\/p>\n

I did visit an older nesting cavity tree I know about and found some Tree Swallows busy at the cavity but there were clouds overhead so the light was low and I wasn’t getting much shutter speed so I took more soft images than usual even though I bumped my ISO up to 800.<\/p>\n

I liked this image of a Tree Swallow near Modoc Creek because of the eye contact, head turn, colors and the pattern of the conifer needles in the background.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

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

I liked this image of a Tree Swallow near Modoc Creek because of the eye contact, head turn, colors and the pattern of the conifer needles in the background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143952,"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":[27,2578,2244,3717,2261,2171],"tags":[4004,4073,5182,5181,3843,5370,4062,2579,4104,165,4807,3470,4377,4427,1523],"class_list":["post-39864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-clark-county","category-idaho","category-modoc-creek","category-targhee-national-forest","category-tree-swallows","tag-adult","tag-breeding-season","tag-cavity","tag-conifers","tag-creek","tag-forest","tag-male","tag-nesting-tree","tag-perched","tag-spring","tag-swallow","tag-swallows","tag-tachycineta-bicolor","tag-tree","tag-tree-swallow"],"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