{"id":9707,"date":"2012-05-03T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T08:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=9707"},"modified":"2019-12-22T22:19:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:19:38","slug":"killdeer-wash-fluff-and-dry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/killdeer-wash-fluff-and-dry\/","title":{"rendered":"Killdeer \u2013 Wash, Fluff and Dry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week I photographed a Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) bathing at Farmington Bay Wildlife Management Area in Davis County, Utah. I was in a mobile blind (vehicle) and the shorebird was quite comfortable in my presence. I used my Nikon D300, resting on my Noodle, f6.3, ISO 400, Nikkor 200-400mm VR with 1.4x TC at 400mm, 0.0 EV and my shutter speed ranged from 1\/1600 to 1\/2000. The images are posted in sequential order.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Killdeer bathing – The Killdeer was bathing when we first pulled up and it stopped momentarily.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Killdeer bathing – It soon began bathing again, vigorously. I like the flying water droplets and how the water is running off of the birds back.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Killdeer bathing – The Killdeer would press its body into the water and then rise back up.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Killdeer bathing – Then it would spread out its wings a bit.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Killdeer bathing – Sometimes the Killdeer would dip its head into the water, twist it and fling water over its back. While I wish that some of the water wasn’t in front of the eye blocking the catchlight I am happy that the bird had its eye open in this frame. I love the action shown here.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Killdeer bathing – The Killdeer also bobbed its body up and down without immersing its whole body.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Killdeer bathing – I liked this image because I caught the bill open.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Killdeer bathing – I like the great eye contact in this frame.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Killdeer bathing – And the fluffed up feathers in this frame.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Killdeer bathing – Even 1\/1600 wasn’t fast enough to stop the motion blur of the feathers but it did freeze most of the water droplets.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Killdeer bathing – Then the Killdeer stood up and called.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Killdeer bathing – Turned its back and gave us an over the shoulder look…<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Killdeer bathing – And it began to preen.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Killdeer bathing – I thought this was a funny pose.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Killdeer bathing – And this one too!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Killdeer bathing – The bird moved away from the water and gave itself a final fluff before it flew away.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Mia McPherson, OntheWingPhotography.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week I photographed a Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) bathing at Farmington Bay Wildlife Management Area in Davis County, Utah. I was in a mobile blind (vehicle) and the shorebird was quite comfortable in my presence. I used my Nikon D300, resting on my Noodle, f6.3, ISO 400, Nikkor 200-400mm VR with 1.4x TC at 400mm, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2192115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/killdeer-8288-bath-mia-mcpherson.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9707","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\/9707","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=9707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}