{"id":79770,"date":"2021-02-24T06:04:35","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T13:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=79770"},"modified":"2024-04-05T05:22:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T11:22:13","slug":"male-spotted-towhee-in-low-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2021\/02\/24\/male-spotted-towhee-in-low-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Male Spotted Towhee In Low Light"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WinterWinter male Spotted Towhee perched in a tree \u2013 Nikon D500, f6.3, 1\/800, ISO 1000, +0.3 EV, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

Ten days ago when I took this male Spotted Towhee image close to home I had tough, low light conditions to photograph him in. The towhee spent time on the ground foraging and perching on branches in the nearby trees. I took far more blurry photos of him than I wish I had.\u00a0 There were a few sharp images in the series that I took of this striking black, white, and rufous bird as he watched over the smaller birds below him from his perch in the tree.<\/p>\n

There were two male Spotted Towhees foraging among the White-crowned Sparrows<\/span><\/a> and Dark-eyed Juncos<\/span><\/a> that afternoon. I shared a portrait of the other male towhee<\/span><\/a> the day after I photographed them all.<\/p>\n

I have gone back to the area where I saw and photographed the male towhees and the other birds several times hoping to photograph them all in better light conditions. People on foot and vehicular traffic have caused the birds to be far more skittish than they were on that dreary, low light, winter afternoon. In other words, I have been skunked. The birds simply aren’t coming down to the ground to forage when I have had good light in that spot.<\/p>\n

I will keep trying. I am persistent. Or stubborn. Or both.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

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

Ten days ago when I took this male Spotted Towhee image close to home I had tough, low light conditions to photograph him in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":127220,"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":[27,709,3542,26],"tags":[4004,6577,156,4062,4104,3546,14870,4050,4328,855,4195,3545,5908,4854,4427,8018,373],"class_list":["post-79770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-salt-lake-county-utah","category-spotted-towhees","category-utah","tag-adult","tag-branches","tag-low-light-2","tag-male","tag-perched","tag-pipilo-maculatus","tag-river-edge","tag-snow","tag-snowy","tag-sparrow","tag-sparrows","tag-spotted-towhee","tag-towhee","tag-towhees","tag-tree","tag-urban","tag-winter"],"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