{"id":95064,"date":"2021-09-16T05:06:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T11:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=95064"},"modified":"2021-09-16T05:29:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T11:29:32","slug":"late-summer-turkey-vulture-and-common-sunflowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2021\/09\/16\/late-summer-turkey-vulture-and-common-sunflowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Summer Turkey Vulture And Common Sunflowers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AA field of wild Common Sunflowers in bloom \u2013 Nikon D500, f9, 1\/1250, ISO 500, Nikkor 18-200mm VR at 52mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve mentioned a few times recently that Common Sunflowers bloom in many of the areas that I head to when I want to find and photograph birds. In some areas I find a clump of wild sunflowers here and a clump there and in some locations I find huge, expansive locations covered in their sunny yellow flowers.<\/p>\n

\"SummerSummer Common Sunflowers in bloom \u2013 Nikon D500, f9, 1\/1600, ISO 500, Nikkor 18-200mm VR at 44mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

I adore seeing and photographing Common Sunflowers wherever I find them. They just make me smile. Yesterday I smiled often because I found a lot of these sunny wildflowers.<\/p>\n

\"CommonCommon Sunflowers blooming in northern Utah – Samsung cell phone f1.7, 1\/3928, ISO 50, 4mm
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

I take photos of the sunflowers using all of my cameras including the one in my phone because with it I can get nice, wide angle views.<\/p>\n

This has been a great year for Common Sunflowers<\/span><\/a> even though we have been experiencing extreme to exceptional drought conditions.<\/p>\n

\"LateLate summer Turkey Vulture on a metal pipe \u2013 Nikon D810, f9, 1\/1000, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

Yesterday I found an adult Turkey Vulture<\/span><\/a> perched on a metal pipe with a field of sunflowers below and behind it. I liked the pop of yellow in my photos of this bird. The vulture was so close to the road that with my 1.4x teleconverter attached I could barely fit the entire bird in the frame so I had to remove it.<\/p>\n

\"TurkeyTurkey Vulture in front of blooming sunflowers \u2013 Nikon D810, f9, 1\/1250, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

After removing my teleconverter I felt more comfortable because in full frame mode I knew I wasn’t going to clip any of the vulture’s body parts and i could see more of the out of focus sunflowers in the background too.<\/p>\n

\"TurkeyTurkey Vulture showing its tongue \u2013 Nikon D810, f9, 1\/1250, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

The Turkey Vulture yawned which meant I was able to get great views of its tongue. I cropped in a little closer here to show the tongue of the vulture.<\/p>\n

\"YawningYawning Turkey Vulture showing its tongue \u2013 Nikon D810, f9, 1\/1600, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

And in this next frame I loosened the crop to show more of the background with the Turkey Vulture sticking out its tongue.<\/p>\n

\"FluffyFluffy Turkey Vulture and blooming sunflowers \u2013 Nikon D810, f8, 1\/1250, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

The Turkey Vulture gave me several different poses and I was happy to take photos of them all. Here my photo shows the vulture after it had shaken its feathers and was settling back down on the rusty metal pipe.<\/p>\n

\"TurkeyTurkey Vulture getting ready to lift off \u2013 Nikon D810, f9, 1\/1600, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

As I took photos of this Turkey Vulture I wondered out loud if these might be my last of year (LOY) photos of this species because they will be migrating soon to spend the winter in warmer climates. I do know that I will miss them once they have gone on the wing to head south.<\/p>\n

I found a lot of other birds yesterday including several immature and adult Red-tailed Hawks but I wanted to share these images of the Turkey Vulture first because I often feel like they are an underdog in the bird photography world.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

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

Yesterday I found an adult Turkey Vulture perched on a metal pipe with a field of sunflowers below and it behind it. I liked the pop of yellow in my photos of this bird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95035,"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":[27,1148,1315,26,5347],"tags":[4004,2663,6627,6098,4008,4322,2649,4098,6518,6028,11914,12286,153,2315,5052,105,5185,2443,30,4618,4617,4307,5063],"class_list":["post-95064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-box-elder-county-utah","category-turkey-vultures","category-utah","category-wildflowers","tag-adult","tag-birds-of-prey","tag-bloom","tag-blooming","tag-box-elder-county","tag-cathartes-aura","tag-common-sunflower","tag-desert","tag-flowering","tag-helianthus-annuus","tag-metal-pipe","tag-pipe","tag-raptors","tag-summer-3","tag-sunflower","tag-sunflowers","tag-tongue","tag-turkey-vulture","tag-utah-2","tag-vulture","tag-vultures","tag-wildflowers","tag-yellow-wildflowers"],"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