I always try to pay attention to what is going on in the background of my photos because by changing distance or angles the same bird, like this Swainson's Hawk, can look very different in my images.
Both of these Loggerhead Shrikes were photographed on Antelope Island State Park, both of them are adults, both were photographed when the sky was clear and both were perched on a dead twig of a greasewood but they were also photographed with different backgrounds, different times of the morning and different light.
In bird photography what is in the background can enhance or distract the eye from the main subject.
These Great Blue Heron photos were taken of the same bird, photographed at same location on the same day just one minute apart.
Last week while photographing in a canyon in the Stansbury Mountains in Tooele County, Utah I spotted this Turkey Vulture roosting in a dead tree in morning light.
The photographs I have attached to this post are of the same Great Horned Owl fledgling, taken in the same location on the same morning.