{"id":441,"date":"2012-12-28T14:38:49","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T14:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/?p=441"},"modified":"2012-12-28T14:38:49","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T14:38:49","slug":"lone-white-dove-the-messenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/2012\/12\/28\/lone-white-dove-the-messenger\/","title":{"rendered":"Lone White Dove – The Messenger"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lone White Dove – Michigan Bird<\/p>\n

One day while standing in one of my favorite Michigan wild life wetland bird photo spots…<\/p>\n

A small white object appeared in my right peripheral vision, at first, I thought it was just another White Egret, so I didn’t really pay much attention. \u00a0However, the bird was much smaller and approaching very fast, much faster than an Egret. It turned out to be a pure white lone dove. \u00a0The white bird flew right in front of me, I totally missed an opportunity to get a picture and the bird quickly flew behind a dense green thicket. I couldn’t believe what just happened, first time ever shot of my life-time and I missed it! But, I waited several agonizing seconds with my finger on the camera trigger and sure enough it was as though the bird read my mind and decided to present me a second shot. \u00a0I barely got a couple of shots off as the dove made a sudden turn, this time heading in my direction.<\/p>\n

I was surprised at the loud \u00a0wind-like sound the wings created as the dove made it’s second pass, this time flying directly overhead.<\/p>\n

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This was a rather strange bird sighting in that I have never seen a dove in this particular wetland I had been visiting for ten years. This particular white dove was all alone–not flying in a dule with other doves and strangest of all, as the dove flew overhead, I panned as I did with so many other birds standing in this exact this same spot; when tracking a bird in flight such as kildeer, kingfisher, or mallard ducks, only this time it seems that the white dove had simply disappeared after flying overhead. \u00a0I pivoted, expecting to get a series of final tail shots and didn’t see the bird… nothing! \u00a0The dove was gone.<\/p>\n

(I added the motion blur effect because the dove was rather close to a background of rather cluttered looking dark green foliage.)<\/p>\n

Nature Photography – by Ike Austin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lone White Dove – Michigan Bird One day while standing in one of my favorite Michigan wild life wetland bird photo spots… A small white object appeared in my right peripheral vision, at first, I thought it was just another White Egret, so I didn’t really pay much attention. \u00a0However, the bird was much smaller … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[330],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}