{"id":59225,"date":"2019-07-28T05:04:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T11:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=59225"},"modified":"2025-05-16T07:25:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T12:25:43","slug":"juvenile-song-sparrow-perched-in-a-thicket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2019\/07\/28\/juvenile-song-sparrow-perched-in-a-thicket\/","title":{"rendered":"Juvenile Song Sparrow Perched In A Thicket"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PerchedPerched juvenile Song Sparrow – Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/160, ISO 640, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

The light wasn’t great when I took this image of a juvenile Song Sparrow perched in a thicket last year but these little ones don’t seem to spend a lot of time in the open right after they fledge so I was happy with the photo. As they mature they seem to become more at ease and will appear out in the open nearly as frequently as the adults do.<\/p>\n

There was an adult Song Sparrow nearby when I photographed this young bird but I didn’t get to photograph the adult interacting with this juvenile. I would have liked to have seen and photographed the adult feeding its young.<\/p>\n

I’ve seen juvenile and photographed Song Sparrows this year but I haven’t been able to see them as much out in the open as this young sparrow was and every image I have taken of them so far this season will go into my delete bin. I will keep trying though.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

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

The light wasn’t great when I took this image of a juvenile Song Sparrow perched in a thicket last year but these little ones don’t seem to spend a lot of time in the open right after they fledge so I was happy with the photo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":144318,"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":[4594,204,26,773],"tags":[3940,4067,4071,4202,4069,4104,4023,855,4195,6725,6070,4193],"class_list":["post-59225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-morgan-county","category-song-sparrows","category-utah","category-wasatch-mountains","tag-canyon","tag-immature","tag-juvenile","tag-melospiza-melodia","tag-mountains","tag-perched","tag-song-sparrow","tag-sparrow","tag-sparrows","tag-thicket","tag-willow-thicket","tag-young"],"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