{"id":56331,"date":"2019-02-25T06:47:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T13:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=56331"},"modified":"2025-08-08T12:23:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T17:23:32","slug":"autumn-chipping-sparrow-perched-on-a-rose-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2019\/02\/25\/autumn-chipping-sparrow-perched-on-a-rose-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"Autumn Chipping Sparrow Perched On A Rose Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ChippingChipping Sparrow perched on a rose bush – Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/1600, ISO 640, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

I forgot to set my alarm last night then woke at 4:00 am which is a touch later than normal and didn’t have a post planned at all so this will be short. I dug through some of my older files and realized I hadn’t edited or shared this Chipping Sparrow photo that was taken near the end of September of last year.<\/p>\n

I adore sparrows and photograph them whenever I can so when this Chipping Sparrow popped up on a wild rose bush and looked in my direction I was ready to take its photo. It was a rough day for me photographically speaking because heat waves had caused a lot of my photos to be somewhat soft, pulling over to photograph across sun baked roads can sometimes do that. Unlike many of the other Chipping Sparrow<\/span><\/a> photos I took that morning this one was sharp because it was taken as close to the shoulder as possible where there was vegetation and a small seep to help with the heat waves.<\/p>\n

The weather forecast for the next two weeks looks rather dismal and that is disappointing.<\/p>\n

\"February<\/p>\n

I probably won’t be spending much time in the field over these next two weeks but that might give me more time to get caught up on my culling and I am so behind on that it is overwhelming. I might be sharing more images like this Chipping Sparrow that I didn’t get around to processing sooner because some parts of last year were so busy.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good even when the weather keeps me from being in the field.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

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

I adore sparrows and photograph them whenever I can so when this Chipping Sparrow popped up on a wild rose bush and looked in my direction I was ready to take its photo. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":152003,"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":[27,1148,3541,26],"tags":[970,3543,4098,4246,4104,5633,855,4195,3544],"class_list":["post-56331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-box-elder-county-utah","category-chipping-sparrows","category-utah","tag-autumn","tag-chipping-sparrow","tag-desert","tag-nonbreeding-plumage","tag-perched","tag-rose-bush","tag-sparrow","tag-sparrows","tag-spizella-passerina"],"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