#Red sparrow botw iso

The sparrow seemed to deliberately fluff its feathers before crouching down into the water to shake,…

#Red sparrow botw iso

I was delighted to get a side view, good light and eye contact for much of the performance.ġ/2500 f/5.6, ISO 640, Canon 7D, Canon EF500mm f/4L IS II USM +1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called On this occasion my reward was a bathing Vesper Sparrow instead, which we found fluttering around a little spring flowing next to the road.ġ/2500 f/5.6, ISO 640, Canon 7D, Canon EF500mm f/4L IS II USM +1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called inīut as with most small birds it soon became quite frenetic about it. It’s a very long and dusty dirt road but driving it sometimes pays off with raptors of many species. When I’m in the Centennial Valley of Montana I sometimes drive the much more isolated North Road as I’m looking for birds.

Cornell’s Birds of North America Online, known today as Birds of the World, says Vesper Sparrows aren’t known to bathe in water.Īpparently this one didn’t read the book.ġ/3200 f/5.6, ISO 640, Canon 7D, Canon EF500mm f/4L IS II USM +1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in They do it so often that they’re well known for having puffs of dust fly off of them when they take off. For this version I’ve combined the two posts, edited the text and tweaked the formatting. This one is actually a combination of two posts that I published eight years ago, in September and November of 2014.

Inclement weather (we have snow on the ground, even in the valleys!) and surgery recovery continue to prevent me from photographing birds so today I decided to rerun a favorite older post.