{"id":43295,"date":"2016-11-30T05:57:10","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T12:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=43295"},"modified":"2023-10-02T18:38:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T00:38:09","slug":"long-tailed-weasel-in-winter-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2016\/11\/30\/long-tailed-weasel-in-winter-white\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-tailed Weasel in Winter White"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Long-tailedLong-tailed Weasel on a hillside – Nikon D810, f7.1, 1\/500, ISO 640, +1.0, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

I write about nemesis birds, birds that I have had a hard time seeing and photographing in my local area such as getting the Golden Eagle images that I have desired for such a long time but I don’t often write about mammals that are a nemesis to me.<\/p>\n

I have photos of Long-tailed Weasels, both in their summer and winter coats, I just don’t have the images of them that I hope to get so I still consider them a nemesis. I don’t see them often and when I do I am often unable to even get one image of them before they scamper off leaving me feeling deflated because I missed once again. Long-tailed Weasels move fast and they don’t stay out in the open all that long but I keep trying.<\/p>\n

This past summer I saw two weasels chasing each other south on the auto tour route at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge in their brown summer coats but I just could not move past them in my Jeep fast enough to stop and focus on them before they scurried past me.<\/p>\n

I was able to photograph a Long-tailed Weasel in its white winter coat two years ago at Farmington Bay WMA and although I liked the images they really weren’t what I truly desire. One day I’d love full frame images of a weasel in its white winter coat on a mound of fluffy snow in soft morning light.<\/p>\n

I’ve been keeping my eye out for them again lately because by now they are in their white winter coats again. Maybe I will finally get the images of these beautiful mustelids that I have been dreaming off. Then again, maybe not.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

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

I was able to photograph a Long-tailed Weasel in its white winter coat two years ago at Farmington Bay WMA and although I liked the images they really weren’t what I truly desire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116663,"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":[1022,697,1157,26,99],"tags":[4004,4175,751,2416,4784,5536,1162,2774,2775,2776,5535],"class_list":["post-43295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-davis-county-utah","category-farmington-bay-wma","category-long-tailed-weasels","category-utah","category-wildlife","tag-adult","tag-fog","tag-hillside","tag-long-tailed-weasel","tag-mustelids","tag-nemesis","tag-neogale-frenata","tag-weasel","tag-weasels","tag-winter-coat","tag-winter-white"],"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