{"id":55054,"date":"2018-11-20T05:34:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T12:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=55054"},"modified":"2022-03-15T15:39:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T21:39:09","slug":"female-great-tailed-grackle-portrait-in-afternoon-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2018\/11\/20\/female-great-tailed-grackle-portrait-in-afternoon-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Female Great-tailed Grackle Portrait In Afternoon Light"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FemaleFemale Great-tailed Grackle portrait – Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/1600, ISO 800, +0.7 EV, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve never once played “Angry Birds”, a video game that can be played on multiple devices and platforms, but I’d nominate this female Great-tailed Grackle to be a featured bird in that game just because to my eye she looks angry. She isn’t angry of course, she simply looks that way to some humans.<\/p>\n

This female Great-tailed Grackle was the first bird I photographed yesterday and she was so close to me that I opted to take portraits of her in the nice afternoon light at my local pond. I don’t see Great-tailed Grackles all that often here in northern Utah so when I do I like to at least try to get photos of them instead of passing them by because I am focused on and passionate about all wild birds.<\/p>\n

I would have liked to have gotten full body images of this female perched on something more natural than a sign but that wasn’t to be, maybe she will stick around and I’ll have another chance with her in my viewfinder again soon. I’d like that.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a><\/span> to see more of my Great-tailed Grackle photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n

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This female Great-tailed Grackle was the first bird I photographed yesterday and she was so close to me that I opted to take portraits of her in the nice afternoon light at my local pond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100790,"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":[27,426,709,26],"tags":[4004,5554,970,4142,4620,4070,4779,4780,2429,4104,1984,4046,4778,4681,4018],"class_list":["post-55054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-great-tailed-grackles","category-salt-lake-county-utah","category-utah","tag-adult","tag-afternoon-light","tag-autumn","tag-close-up","tag-fall","tag-female","tag-grackle","tag-grackles","tag-great-tailed-grackle","tag-perched","tag-pond","tag-portrait","tag-quiscalus-mexicanus","tag-sign","tag-sky"],"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