{"id":54656,"date":"2018-10-18T05:16:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T11:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=54656"},"modified":"2021-05-10T07:20:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T13:20:47","slug":"autumn-male-brewers-blackbird-shaking-after-preening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2018\/10\/18\/autumn-male-brewers-blackbird-shaking-after-preening\/","title":{"rendered":"Autumn Male Brewer’s Blackbird shaking after preening"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MaleMale Brewer’s Blackbird shaking after preening – Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/3200, ISO 800, +0.3 EV, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

It was a slow morning at Farmington Bay WMA yesterday bird wise. I was able to photograph a few blackbirds, starlings and a Great Blue Heron that was way too close when it lifted off but other than those birds everything else was too far away or too skittish.<\/p>\n

A male Brewer’s Blackbird had been preening on a fence post when he started to shake his feathers and that action sure showed his iridescent plumage off nicely. I can see the purples, greens and some blues in his feathers because of the angle of light. The blue color in the background is the surface of a pond and the brownish tones at the top of the frame are some out of focus leaves and grasses.<\/p>\n

Nothing fancy, just a bird doing what comes naturally to birds.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a><\/span> to see more of my Brewer\u2019s Blackbird photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A male Brewer’s Blackbird had been preening on a fence post when he started to shake his feathers and that action sure showed his iridescent plumage off nicely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54653,"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":[27,420,1022,697,26],"tags":[4004,970,3813,3483,4338,4263,4620,898,7845,4062,4502,3996,4095,8917],"class_list":["post-54656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-brewers-blackbirds","category-davis-county-utah","category-farmington-bay-wma","category-utah","tag-adult","tag-autumn","tag-blackbird","tag-blackbirds","tag-brewers-blackbird","tag-euphagus-cyanocephalus","tag-fall","tag-fence-post","tag-iridescent","tag-male","tag-shaking","tag-water","tag-wetlands","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