{"id":15397,"date":"2012-07-06T03:00:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T01:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=5257"},"modified":"2019-12-22T22:27:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:27:16","slug":"birds-of-antelope-island-a-mix-of-feathered-friends-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/birds-of-antelope-island-a-mix-of-feathered-friends-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Birds of Antelope Island \u2013 A Mix of Feathered Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I photographed a mixture of birds on Antelope Island State Park.<\/p>\n

There aren’t many places on this planet where a Chukar can be photographed walking on an Oolitic sand dune, I’m fortunate that I live where I can do that.<\/p>\n

The oolitic sand this Chukar is walking on was formed in the Great Salt Lake when calcium carbonate attached itself to brine shrimp feces in concentric layers.<\/p>\n

The rolling motion of the waves on the lake give the grains of sand an egg shape.<\/p>\n

I was glad I saw the Chukars on the sand.<\/p>\n

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Chukar walking on the Oolitic sand dunes of the Great Salt Lake – Nikon D200, f6.3, 1\/1250, ISO 500, +0.3 EV, Nikkor 200-400mm VR with 1.4x TC at 400mm, natural light<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Later in the morning I spotted this Lark Sparrow perched on some dead Sagebrush branches, it preened for quite some time. I especially liked that the background is composed of sagebrush bushes. These sparrows are so handsome.<\/p>\n

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Yesterday I photographed a mixture of birds on Antelope Island State Park. There aren’t many places on this planet where a Chukar can be photographed walking on an Oolitic sand dune, I’m fortunate that I live where I can do that. The oolitic sand this Chukar is walking on was formed in the Great Salt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2192349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/chukar-sand-oolitic-mia-mcpherson-06961.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}