{"id":23132,"date":"2011-12-06T08:01:43","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T16:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moosepeterson.com\/blog\/?p=23132"},"modified":"2011-12-06T08:04:33","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T16:04:33","slug":"the-browns-of-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moosepeterson.com\/blog\/the-browns-of-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Browns of Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.moosepeterson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/White-crwn-Sparrow-0117.jpg?resize=402%2C600&#038;quality=100\" alt=\"\" title=\"White-crwn Sparrow 0117\" width=\"402\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.moosepeterson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/White-crwn-Sparrow-0117.jpg?w=402&amp;quality=100&amp;ssl=1 402w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.moosepeterson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/White-crwn-Sparrow-0117.jpg?resize=391%2C585&amp;quality=100&amp;ssl=1 391w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is one aspect of winter I look forward to on the flats each year. That&#8217;s the carpet of brown vegetation. The shrubs, grasses, reeds, everything has gone dormant and brown making it the perfect home for many dickie birds. Many of the dickie birds are in their winter browns and the combo in the gorgeous mellow light of winter just sucks me in!<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.moosepeterson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/White-crwn-Sparrow-0092.jpg?resize=585%2C472&#038;quality=100\" alt=\"\" title=\"White-crwn Sparrow 0092\" width=\"585\" height=\"472\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23133\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The biggest challenge of this type of dickie bird photography (White-crowned Sparrows are seen here) is capturing a &#8220;clean&#8221; photo. The shrubs, grasses and reeds are a very busy world and the dickie birds move through it like we drive freeways. They often don&#8217;t come up on top of the vegetation because that&#8217;s how they get eaten, down deep is safety. The way I approach it is find the perch with the background I want within the area the dickie birds are forgaging. Then I psssst, psssst a couple of times and more times then not, a bird will come up on the perch to see what&#8217;s up. You don&#8217;t have much time, you need to have prefocused on that perch, but you do get rewarded. White-crown Sparrows are a long time favorite of mine and I know them well so making these images is a relaxation making it even more enjoybale. Ah, the brown of winter!<\/p>\n<p>Photos captured by D3x, 600VR w\/TC-17e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is one aspect of winter I look forward to on the flats each year. That&#8217;s the carpet of brown vegetation. 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