{"id":9096,"date":"2013-08-05T03:44:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T09:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=9096"},"modified":"2025-11-07T11:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T17:25:11","slug":"western-kingbird-juvenile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2013\/08\/05\/western-kingbird-juvenile\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Kingbird Juvenile"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"JuvenileJuvenile Western Kingbird – Nikon D300, f6.3, 1\/1250, ISO 500, Nikkor 200-400mm VR with 1.4x TC at 400mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t often have the opportunity to photograph juvenile Western Kingbirds but last week I did at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge<\/span><\/a> in Box Elder County. There was a family group of Western Kingbirds near the road and some shrubs.<\/p>\n

Some were very flighty but this young Western Kingbird wasn’t and posed for several minutes on a strand of rusty barbed wire.<\/p>\n

\"WesternWestern Kingbird juvenile on a barbed wire perch\u00a0– Nikon D300, f6.3, 1\/1250, ISO 500, Nikkor 200-400mm VR with 1.4x TC at 400mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

The juveniles colors look softer, more delicately colored and they certainly don’t look as tyrannical as the adults do!\u00a0 Normally I prefer natural perches when photographing birds but kingbirds love to perch on wires, I am just glad this wire is aged and rustic looking.<\/p>\n

They might look sweet now but before long they will inflict as much tyranny on their prey as the adults.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

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

I don’t often have the opportunity to photograph juvenile Western Kingbirds but last week I did at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge in Box Elder County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":163080,"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":[124,27,1148,26,534],"tags":[4430,4068,3830,3808,4884,4067,4071,3791,3772,4104,4183,4411,4193],"class_list":["post-9096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bear-river-migratory-bird-refuge","category-avian","category-box-elder-county-utah","category-utah","category-western-kingbirds","tag-barbed-wire","tag-chicks","tag-fence","tag-flycatcher","tag-flycatchers","tag-immature","tag-juvenile","tag-kingbird","tag-kingbirds","tag-perched","tag-tyrannus-verticalis","tag-western-kingbird","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