{"id":89384,"date":"2021-05-29T06:30:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T12:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=89384"},"modified":"2024-07-31T02:59:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T07:59:21","slug":"male-western-tanager-close-up-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2021\/05\/29\/male-western-tanager-close-up-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Male Western Tanager Close Up Image"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MaleMale Western Tanager close up \u2013 Nikon D810, f7.1, 1\/2000, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

Two days ago I had the opportunity to photograph a male Western Tanager up close in the foothills of some of the sky island mountains in the West Desert of Utah. I’ve seen Western Tanagers<\/span><\/a> on all three of my recent trips to the West Desert.<\/p>\n

This was the closest I’ve been able to get to these flame colored birds recently that can be so bright they cause retinal damage. I’m just kidding about the retinal damage but not about how bright the males are. These birds are unmistakable.<\/p>\n

I had switched from my Nikon D500 to my Nikon D810 because of the problems I was having with the D500 and hadn’t switched my D810 to FX mode (full frame) instead of DX mode (cropped mode). If I had been in FX mode I would have been able to get the whole body of the tanager in the frame. If I had been just a bit farther away from him that would have helped too. The tanager was perched on a wire fence right next to the dusty dirt road.<\/p>\n

I hope the tanagers stick around and allow me the opportunity to take more and better photos of them out west and in the Wasatch and\/or Uinta Mountain ranges this summer.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

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

Two days ago I had the opportunity to photograph a male Western Tanager up close in the foothills of some of the sky island mountains in the West Desert of Utah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,358,26,1314,2126],"tags":[4004,4053,4142,3830,7017,11829,4062,4069,4104,4103,10452,165,11830,4102,2357],"class_list":["post-89384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-tooele-county","category-utah","category-west-desert-utah","category-western-tanager-tanagers","tag-adult","tag-breeding-plumage","tag-close-up","tag-fence","tag-foothills","tag-juniper-forest","tag-male","tag-mountains","tag-perched","tag-piranga-ludoviciana","tag-sky-island-mountains","tag-spring","tag-unmistakable","tag-western-tanager","tag-wire-fence"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/western-tanager-male-close-up-mia-mcpherson-3722.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-nfG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":102638,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2022\/05\/25\/female-western-tanager-perched-on-a-juniper\/","url_meta":{"origin":89384,"position":0},"title":"Female Western Tanager Perched On A Juniper","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"May 25, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday morning I spent time photographing a female Western Tanager perched on a juniper in a canyon out in the sky island mountains of the West Desert of Utah.","rel":"","context":"In "Birds"","block_context":{"text":"Birds","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/category\/avian\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Female Western Tanager perched on a juniper, West Desert, Tooele County, Utah","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/western-tanager-adult-female-juniper-mia-mcpherson-8495.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/western-tanager-adult-female-juniper-mia-mcpherson-8495.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/western-tanager-adult-female-juniper-mia-mcpherson-8495.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/western-tanager-adult-female-juniper-mia-mcpherson-8495.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":72359,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2020\/08\/02\/an-adult-male-and-immature-western-tanager\/","url_meta":{"origin":89384,"position":1},"title":"An Adult Male And Immature Western Tanager","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"August 2, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"It was fun to have the male and immature Western Tanager in my viewfinder for a few moments high in the Wasatch Mountains last week. 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