{"id":21989,"date":"2022-06-18T16:34:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T21:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=21989"},"modified":"2022-07-14T12:32:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T17:32:30","slug":"indigo-bunting-passerina-cyanea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=21989","title":{"rendered":"Indigo Bunting (<em>Passerina cyanea<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21991\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_20220618_002766.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21991\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_20220618_002766-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Indigo Bunting (Passerina cyanea)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21991\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_20220618_002766-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_20220618_002766-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_20220618_002766-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_20220618_002766-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_20220618_002766.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21991\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indigo Bunting (<em>Passerina cyanea<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A month or two ago I happened to pull out a small Tupperware type container that had cash in it from when I was selling cards and matted photographs. It&#8217;s been quite a few years since I did that and at this point, I&#8217;m not going to do it any more. There was quite a bit there and I decided I&#8217;d use it to buy a telephoto lens, which is something I&#8217;ve wanted for quite some time now. I bought a Sigma 150-600mm zoom lens and today was my first outing with it. It&#8217;s quite heavy and I had it mounted on a monopod. That isn&#8217;t quite as good as a tripod but without that it would have been very difficult to get anything worthwhile. We walked to Blockhouse Point and then drove around to Pennyfield Lock on the C&#038;O Canal. As we were walking back from a nice walk along the canal, I got four photos of this indigo bunting (<em>Passerina cyanea<\/em>). While it may not an award winning shot, it&#8217;s certainly better than anything I&#8217;ve been able to get with my other lenses. In the past I&#8217;d have to crop quite aggressively to get anything close to this and then it wouldn&#8217;t be nearly so sharp. This picture is the full frame. Hopefully there will be more and better bird pictures coming soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A month or two ago I happened to pull out a small Tupperware type container that had cash in it from when I was selling cards and matted photographs. It&#8217;s been quite a few years since I did that and at this point, I&#8217;m not going to do it any more. There was quite a &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=21989\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[61,110,3182,3185,3181,3184,3183],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21989"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21993,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21989\/revisions\/21993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}