{"id":1820,"date":"2011-05-16T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T13:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/?p=1820"},"modified":"2011-05-15T20:15:46","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T00:15:46","slug":"american-robin-connecticuts-state-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/american-robin-connecticuts-state-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"American Robin, Connecticut’s State Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"

Photographing ground feeders is an art unto itself. Robins are difficult because they never sit still, kinda like kids!<\/p>\n

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American Robin Eyeing Worms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The bird above was very successful at pulling worms out of our lawn.<\/p>\n

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American Robin Profile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I would normally not think about photographing any animal on blacktop but somehow this photo works.<\/p>\n

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American Robin on Fence<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Normally I don’t like butt shots, but enough of the Robin is exposed so you know exactly what you are looking at.<\/p>\n

Overall, not much I would call great photography. Flat light and uncooperative subjects but thats why they call it wildlife photography. It wouldn’t be fun if every outing produced salable images! As I have said before, the most important thing is getting out and trying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photographing ground feeders is an art unto itself. Robins are difficult because they never sit still, kinda like kids! The bird above was very successful at pulling worms out of our lawn. I would normally not think about photographing any animal on blacktop but somehow this photo works. Normally I don’t like butt shots, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t