{"id":8779,"date":"2013-07-03T04:11:44","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T10:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=8779"},"modified":"2026-01-30T15:22:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T21:22:39","slug":"juvenile-loggerhead-shrike-close-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2013\/07\/03\/juvenile-loggerhead-shrike-close-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Juvenile Loggerhead Shrike Close Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"JuvenileJuvenile Loggerhead Shrike close up – Nikon D300, handheld, f7.1, 1\/1000, ISO 640, +0.7 EV, Nikkor 200-400mm VR with 1.4x TC at 400mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

Yesterday a family of Loggerhead Shrikes kept me busy for a bit as the juveniles begged the adults to feed them and the adults were hunting food to bring to the rather noisy youngsters on Antelope Island State Park.<\/p>\n

One of the juveniles came very close to flying into the open windows of the pickup!<\/p>\n

Also, one of the young Loggerhead Shrikes flew onto a very close, elevated perch near the pickup and sat there for quite a few minutes.<\/p>\n

In that time, I decided to do some close up portrait images of it because I didn’t want the ugly, man made perch to be visible in the frames.<\/p>\n

I had to turn off my limiter because the bird was so close in order to be able to focus on the young shrike.<\/p>\n

It isn’t often I am this close to a Loggerhead Shrike<\/span><\/a>!<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

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

Yesterday a family of Loggerhead Shrikes kept us busy for a bit as the juveniles begged the adults to feed them and the adults were hunting food to bring to the rather noisy youngsters on Antelope Island State Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_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":[511,27,1022,247,26],"tags":[4021,4142,4141,4067,4071,4171,4066,4046,3906,3907,4193],"class_list":["post-8779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antelope-island-state-park","category-avian","category-davis-county-utah","category-loggerhead-shrikes","category-utah","tag-bird-photography","tag-close-up","tag-fledgling","tag-immature","tag-juvenile","tag-lanius-ludovicianus","tag-loggerhead-shrike","tag-portrait","tag-shrike","tag-shrikes","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