Photo Of The Day By Bob Faucher

By Staff

Updated August 29, 2019

Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Where’s Mom” by Bob Faucher. Location: Grand Staircase-Escalante National Park, Utah.

Photo Of The Day By Bob Faucher

Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Where’s Mom” by Bob Faucher. Location: Grand Staircase-Escalante National Park, Utah.

“A young red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus), perched in last year’s dried up cattails, waits for its parent to return with food,” says Faucher.

Canon EOS 30D; Canon EF 70-200mm + 2x @ 400mm.. Exposure: 1/1250 sec., f/5.6, ISO 100.

Photo of the Day is chosen from various OP galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and the OP Contests. Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the OP website homepage, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. To get your photos in the running, all you have to do is submit them.

Originally Published August 23, 2019

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