{"id":9060,"date":"2013-07-31T03:45:36","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T09:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=9060"},"modified":"2025-05-19T09:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T14:16:12","slug":"juvenile-mountain-bluebird-in-montana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2013\/07\/31\/juvenile-mountain-bluebird-in-montana\/","title":{"rendered":"Juvenile Mountain Bluebird in Montana"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MountainJuvenile Mountain Bluebird in Montana – Nikon D300, f6.3, 1\/1000, ISO 640, Nikkor 200-400mm VR with 1.4x TC at 400mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

Last month and this month I wrote about Mountain Bluebirds in several posts that included images of adult males and females, today I am posting one image of the many fledglings I saw last week. The Mountain Bluebirds did well this season in Beaverhead County<\/span><\/a> judging from all of the young that I saw. They are pretty little birds.<\/p>\n

This juvenile Mountain Bluebird happened to be perched on a lichen-covered fence railing that had tons of character and texture.<\/p>\n

I was delighted to see so many post-breeding flocks of adults and fledglings this trip. Last year the Mountain Bluebirds didn’t do so well because of a very late cold snap and snow in the valley.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

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

Last month and this month I wrote about Mountain Bluebirds in several posts that included images of adult males and females, today I am posting one image of the many fledglings I saw last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145082,"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":[1513,27,223,12,1369,608],"tags":[5933,4880,11129,11128,4141,4067,4071,3291,228,4104,4339,11130,4193],"class_list":["post-9060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beaverhead-county-montana","category-avian","category-centennial-valley","category-montana","category-mountain-bluebirds","category-red-rock-lakes-national-wildlife-refuge","tag-bluebird","tag-bluebirds","tag-character","tag-covered","tag-fledgling","tag-immature","tag-juvenile","tag-lichen","tag-mountain-bluebird","tag-perched","tag-sialia-currucoides","tag-texture","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