{"id":2226,"date":"2011-10-03T08:30:59","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T12:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/?p=2226"},"modified":"2011-10-02T19:06:24","modified_gmt":"2011-10-02T23:06:24","slug":"black-capped-chickadee-bonanza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/black-capped-chickadee-bonanza\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Capped Chickadee Bonanza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Black Capped Chickadees has moved into the neighborhood.  I was entertained by watching these birds at my feeders for several hours late Saturday afternoon.  I had some opportunities to make clicks that I think truly show off this birds beauty.  I hope you agree ;-).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2229\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/black-capped-chickadee-bonanza\/bzbc_00095-as-smart-object-copy\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2229\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/BZBC_00095-as-Smart-Object-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"BZBC_00095 as Smart Object copy\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/BZBC_00095-as-Smart-Object-copy.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/BZBC_00095-as-Smart-Object-copy-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Capped Chickadee with Fall Foliage in Background <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I think the above image would be a great image except for one thing.  Its too centered in the frame.  You can probably tell I was having trouble keeping the branch lined up in a way that the fall colors made for a nice background.   But alas, it caused me to leave my subject centered in the frame and made what could have been a great shot, based on the light, into just a good image.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2228\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/black-capped-chickadee-bonanza\/bzbc_00072-as-smart-object-copy\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2228\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/BZBC_00072-as-Smart-Object-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"BZBC_00072 as Smart Object copy\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/BZBC_00072-as-Smart-Object-copy.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/BZBC_00072-as-Smart-Object-copy-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Capped Chickadee Back<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I always try to avoid &#8220;butt&#8221; shots.  No one likes those.  But I had to photograph the back of this bird.  Look at how intricate and delicate the feather patterns are.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2227\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/black-capped-chickadee-bonanza\/bzbc_00123-as-smart-object-copy\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2227\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/BZBC_00123-as-Smart-Object-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"BZBC_00123 as Smart Object copy\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/BZBC_00123-as-Smart-Object-copy.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/BZBC_00123-as-Smart-Object-copy-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Capped Chickadee Before Call<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I really like the gesture in this bird, right before it was about to call.<\/p>\n<p>Images captured with Nikon D700 w\/600mm f\/4 and Tce 1.4-II on Lexar Digital Film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Black Capped Chickadees has moved into the neighborhood. I was entertained by watching these birds at my feeders for several hours late Saturday afternoon. I had some opportunities to make clicks that I think truly show off this birds beauty. I hope you agree ;-). I think the above image would be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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-2226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyuQ8-zU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}