{"id":59767,"date":"2019-08-28T06:01:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T12:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=59767"},"modified":"2024-07-30T04:11:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T09:11:06","slug":"an-american-mink-in-the-wasatch-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2019\/08\/28\/an-american-mink-in-the-wasatch-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"An American Mink In The Wasatch Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AmericanAmerican Mink near a creek bank – Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/160, ISO 1250, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

I was excited to have been able to take a decent image of an American Mink when I found this one in the Wasatch Mountains yesterday morning. I’d seen a mink in the same area on a trip into the Wasatch just a few days before but the light was so low and it disappeared so quickly that I wasn’t 100% sure on my ID but when it showed up again yesterday I had no doubt as to what the critter was.<\/p>\n

My ISO was too low at first so I quickly changed it to 1250 to obtain a little more shutter speed but in hindsight I wish I had taken the time to change my aperture to 5.6 to gain a little more because most of the images I took of the mink running along the creek bank and swimming in the water were blurry. I’m happy enough with this low light photo though and I hope to see the mink again to try and get better photos of it.<\/p>\n

I also have something else that I wanted to share after seeing it yesterday… I saw some frost on a roof of a house up in the mountains and little bit more along a creek. It won’t be long before the frost and cooler temps in the mountains start the leaves of trees changing to fall colors. I looked at some of the photos I had taken in the same area last year and by the end of the first week of September I was starting to see orange, yellow and red leaves on some of the trees.<\/p>\n

I am truly looking forward to cooler weather and the birds that the cooler temps will bring.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

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

I was excited to have been able to take a decent image of an American Mink when I found this one in the Wasatch Mountains yesterday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131565,"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":[7593,1731,26,773],"tags":[7595,3843,7600,3983,4109,156,7598,7599,4069,2777,7594],"class_list":["post-59767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-mink","category-summit-county-utah","category-utah","category-wasatch-mountains","tag-american-mink","tag-creek","tag-creek-bank","tag-frost","tag-grasses","tag-low-light-2","tag-mink","tag-minks","tag-mountains","tag-mustelid","tag-neovison-vison"],"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