The king has arrived

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The king has arrived
The king has arrived

Golden-crowned Kinglets are tiny, active, strikingly marked olive-green to gray songbirds. Their wings are dark, with two white wing-bars. There is a black smudge below the second wing-bar. Their legs are black and their feet, yellow. Their faces are white with a black stripe through the eye and another at the base of their yellow crests. These bold stripes and the yellow crests are distinctive field marks on both sexes. Crests on males shade to orange-red in the center. Females look like males but lack the orange within the yellow crest. One of our tiniest birds, the Golden-crowned Kinglet is remarkable in its ability to survive in cold climates. Nesting in northern forest, wintering throughout much of the continent, it is usually in dense conifers which undoubtedly help provide shelter from the cold. This choice of habitat also makes the Golden-crown hard to see, but it may be detected by its high thin callnotes, and then glimpsed as it flits about high in the spruce trees.

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Taken on: October 31, 2020
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Camera: Nikon D500
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Aperture: f/6.3
Exposure Time: 0.001 sec (1/1000)
Focal Length: 480mm (35mm equivalent: 720mm)
ISO: 1100
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: No Flash
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Metering Mode: Spot
White Balance: Auto
Gain Control: Low gain up
Sharpness: Hard
Color Space: sRGB
Software: Adobe Photoshop 22.1 (Windows)
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