{"id":52687,"date":"2018-06-20T05:04:14","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T11:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=52687"},"modified":"2025-05-19T11:53:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T16:53:46","slug":"focusing-on-photographing-juvenile-mountain-bluebirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2018\/06\/20\/focusing-on-photographing-juvenile-mountain-bluebirds\/","title":{"rendered":"Focusing On Photographing Juvenile Mountain Bluebirds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Juvenile Mountain Bluebird with adult male watching over it<\/p><\/div>\n

Juvenile Mountain Bluebird with adult male watching over it – Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/1600, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

Yesterday morning I drove up to the Wasatch Mountains<\/span><\/a> and spent the morning driving very slowly through a canyon looking for birds and wildflowers to photograph. I also had a deep-seated need to shut out the vulgar, un-American things going on in our country. I needed to relax.<\/p>\n

On the last four or five trips up to the canyon I have been seeing juvenile Mountain Bluebirds but they were either on the wrong side of the road in bad light or they were extremely skittish and took off before I could even raise my lens. Yesterday morning I spent time focusing on finding and photographing the bluebird family.<\/p>\n

Luck was on my side when I found the family of Mountain Bluebirds in good light plus they were close enough to take quality photos of them, first the male then the female and the juveniles.<\/p>\n

\"MountainMountain Bluebirds in a Wasatch Mountain Canyon – Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/1250, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

The light was variable because of clouds floating overhead and there was a bit of a breeze so there were some photos that didn’t come out the way I would have liked but this series of images taken while the birds were on a Utah Serviceberry bush pleased me. In these first two photos I like having the out of focus male Mountain Bluebird in the background as it kept an eye on this juvenile and the three others that were nearby. I couldn’t get enough depth of field to have both birds in focus so I went with having the juvenile sharply in focus.<\/p>\n

\"JuvenileJuvenile Mountain Bluebird perched on a Utah Serviceberry bush – Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/1600, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

When the adult Mountain Bluebird took off the juvenile stayed on the serviceberry for a few seconds longer so I took a series of images of it perched alone on the bush. Right after I took this photo another juvenile bluebird flew in and chased this bird off.<\/p>\n

I’m glad I had time with this family of Mountain Bluebirds yesterday and that being up in the canyons helped my frame of mind at least temporarily.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

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

Luck was on my side when I found the family of Mountain Bluebirds in good light plus they were close enough to take quality photos of them, first the male then the female and the juveniles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_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":[27,1369,1731,26,773],"tags":[4004,6523,5933,4880,6585,3940,8302,4071,4062,228,4069,8301,8300,4339,6522],"class_list":["post-52687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-mountain-bluebirds","category-summit-county-utah","category-utah","category-wasatch-mountains","tag-adult","tag-amelanchier-utahensis","tag-bluebird","tag-bluebirds","tag-bush","tag-canyon","tag-focusing","tag-juvenile","tag-male","tag-mountain-bluebird","tag-mountains","tag-photograph","tag-photographing","tag-sialia-currucoides","tag-utah-serviceberry"],"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