{"id":10950,"date":"2018-05-13T06:22:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T10:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=10950"},"modified":"2018-05-13T06:22:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T10:22:19","slug":"chestnut-in-the-half-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=10950","title":{"rendered":"Chestnut in the half light"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chestnut-sided Warbler, Magee Marsh Wildlife Area, Oak Harbor, Ohio<\/p><\/div>\n

Tonight after we closed up at Optics Alley
\nat the Biggest Week in American Birding,
\nthe warblers on the boardwalk at Magee
\nMarsh were working as close as you will
\never see them, closer than you will ever
\nsee them anywhere other than Magee. Cape
\nMay, Blackburnian, Chestnut-sided, Black-throated
\nBlue, Magnolia, Black-throated Green, all within
\nfeet and at, or below, eye-level, and lots of
\nOvenbirds scurrying around in the leaf-litter
\nright under the boardwalk…but it was so
\ndark, with the lateness of the day and the
\nheavy overcast, in those dense swampy woods
\nthat the camera struggled to focus and strained
\nat the limits of exposure. Still who could
\nresist those bright bodies in the dim light
\nteasing our trigger fingers and filling memory
\ncards, hoping against hope for those intimate
\nportraits of busy warblers at arm\u2019s length.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Like I said in the poem…who can resist. This is an ISO 2500 shot, certainly pushing the limits of my Sony’s 1 inch sensor, but still…such a bird and such a pose! Chestnut-sided Warbler, close and totally unconscious of the admiring humans on the boardwalk at Magee Marsh. This is what the Biggest Week in American Birding is all about. Sony RX10iv at 600mm. Program mode. 1\/250th @ f4 @ ISO 2500. Processed in Polarr.<\/p>\n

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