{"id":4082,"date":"2015-02-26T20:37:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T01:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=4082"},"modified":"2015-02-26T20:37:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T01:37:43","slug":"bufflehead-icy-takeoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=4082","title":{"rendered":"Bufflehead &#8211; Icy Takeoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I shot this female Bufflehead taking off on the ice at Edith G. Read Wildlife Sanctuary in Rye last Saturday, and I was pleasantly surprised by how much I liked them. Though the light never seemed very good that day, I feel like I got a good exposure on these, showing the details of the birds head pretty well. The bird made an icy landing, quite\u00a0close to the pier, which I watched but didn&#8217;t photograph. I took some photos of the bird perched (one of which I posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=4041\">Saturday<\/a>) and then got the following shots of the bird as she took off from the frozen Long Island Sound.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4083\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4083\" style=\"width: 1523px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MG_1764.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4083\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MG_1764.jpg\" alt=\"~\" width=\"1523\" height=\"1015\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MG_1764.jpg 1523w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MG_1764-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MG_1764-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MG_1764-1000x666.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4083\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">~This is the shot that I really like, the head is\u00a0\u00a0sharp enough while there is some good blurring beginning on the wings. Bufflehead at Edith G. Read Wildlife Sanctuary, 2\/21\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4084\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4084\" style=\"width: 1629px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MG_1765.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4084\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MG_1765.jpg\" alt=\"~She is starting to get air born here as she runs across the ice to pick up speed for the take off. Female Bufflehead at Edith G. Read Wildlife Sanctuary, 2\/21\/15.~\" width=\"1629\" height=\"1086\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MG_1765.jpg 1629w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MG_1765-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MG_1765-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MG_1765-1000x667.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4084\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">~She is starting to get air born here and I love the position of her wings as she runs across the ice to pick up speed for the take off. Female Bufflehead at Edith G. Read Wildlife Sanctuary, 2\/21\/15.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4085\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4085\" style=\"width: 1596px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MG_1767.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4085\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MG_1767.jpg\" alt=\"~\" width=\"1596\" height=\"1064\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MG_1767.jpg 1596w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MG_1767-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MG_1767-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MG_1767-1000x667.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4085\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">~Here she looks cute and almost a little dainty as she continues her run to takeoff. Female Bufflehead at Edith G. Read Wildlife Sanctuary in Rye, NY 2\/21\/15. ~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I shot this female Bufflehead taking off on the ice at Edith G. Read Wildlife Sanctuary in Rye last Saturday, and I was pleasantly surprised by how much I liked them. Though the light never seemed very good that day, I feel like I got a good exposure on these, showing the details of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=4082\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bufflehead &#8211; Icy Takeoff&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-swimmingwaterbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-13Q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4082"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4089,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4082\/revisions\/4089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}