Friend or Foe?
This male yellowthroat had flown down near the ground and was mostly obscured by my old nemesis at Ridgefield, the grasses that grow so tall during the spring that they block many of the views around the auto tour.
I already had some nice pictures of the yellowthroat more in the open, so I tried to turn my old foe to my advantage. I used the shallowest depth of field to blur out the surrounding plants and highlight the brilliant yellow and black and white of the yellowthroat peeking out from his surroundings.
Yellowthroats aren’t exactly designed for camoflage.
Tags: birds, common yellowthroat, Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, Washington