{"id":7292,"date":"2015-07-28T07:25:54","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T11:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p4td.lightshedder.com\/?p=7292"},"modified":"2015-07-28T07:36:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T11:36:08","slug":"uncommon-yellowthroat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=7292","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Yellowthroat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Common Yellowthroat, Wells National Estuarine Research Center at Laudholm Farm, Wells ME<\/p><\/div>\n

Oh, Common Yellowthroats are common enough this year. They are another bird that seems to have benefited from the late spring…if numbers are any indication. They are everywhere I go and in good numbers. On a late afternoon photoprowl on the trails at Laudholm Farm yesterday, I saw at least a dozen. Birds were uncommonly active for a late afternoon, perhaps because it had been rainy and gloomy until the sun broke out at about 3PM. This Yellowthroat had taken a grasshopper\/beetleish thing, and was, perhaps, in retrospect, waiting until I passed on to take it to its nest. It hopped around in the branches of a tree overhanging the trail for several minutes as I photographed it. In fact I left it still hopping there when I moved on. I did not see the prey in its beak until I got the images up on the monitor at home.<\/p>\n

Nikon P900 at 2000mm equivalent field of view. 1\/500th @ ISO 360 @ f6.5. Processed in Lightroom.<\/p>\n

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