Rock Wren

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Rock Wren

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While photographing the Clark's Nutcrackers I could hear some thing under my feet and all around under my chair digging up the ground, turning small rocks over but was to busy to take a good look. As long as it doesn't bit off my leg I didn't bother to worry about.

As it turned out, it was a very cute Canyon Wren, in fact there were several of them rooting around under my chair and between my feet, maybe I had dropped some bread crumbs or some thing they thought was good to eat.

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Now that's what I call close. I had to change to a 60mm lens that had a macro setting.

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AHH, come on ole Earle chuck us down a few crumbs, wont you??

I do not feed the wild life at the canyon because they say it is against the law. There are many other reasons not to do that also. However I will admit I may drop a few crumbs now and then when eating a sandwich or two. Sometimes they get into my camera bag and help then selves to what ever is in there. They are very good at pecking open those plastic sandwich bags I have found out.

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OH boy, I found a small morsel of food under this piece of bark.

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Let me say again we are actually looking at several different birds.

If I got any closer I would be touching the bird.
These wrens don't seem to care how close I got with the camera.

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While it was not looking I really zoomed in on it.

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Please note the yellow eye. Or, perhaps I should say It sure looks yellow, I did look at it with my 10 power binoculars and it did look yellow around the pupil. Let's face it I really don't know what I am talking about, but it did look and foto yellow. Maybe it was an imperfections or light reflection or something.

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OK, for what it's worth here is a cropped blow up.

Light reflection?? or something else?? You tell me! Maybe the bird has a double eye ring?

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I wanted you to see this view because of the chestnut color under its chin or upper breast area.

I could not find this type of marking in the book.

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Even the small birds like to perch on this dead over hanging branch.

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A few more from the south rim of the Grand Canyon

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