{"id":7708,"date":"2015-10-19T07:36:50","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T11:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p4td.lightshedder.com\/?p=7708"},"modified":"2015-10-19T07:37:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T11:37:36","slug":"7708","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=7708","title":{"rendered":"Hermit Thrush"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hermit Thrush, Laudholm Farm, Wells ME<\/p><\/div>\n

Sometimes it is nice to have multiple views of a bird. This Hermit Thrush, which we walked up on along the Maple Swamp boardwalk at Laudholm Farm (Wells National Estuarine Research Center), was fairly busy in the bush, and gave us front, back, and center views over the few seconds it took to take a series of photos. Then it was away, across the boardwalk and into deeper brush under the trees. This collage shows off all the recognition triggers for the species. The general Robin-like fat oval thrush shape and distinctive beak shape, the speckled upper breast, and the “tells” for this species…the rusty tail and wing tips and the fairly bold eye-ring. The mid-afternoon October light was great.<\/p>\n

Nikon P610 at 1440mm equivalent field of view. 1\/160th @ ISO 400 @ f6.5. Processed in Lightroom and assembled in Coolage.<\/p>\n

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