A Truly Wild Chukar In The Snow
Photographing this Chukar gave me a sense of accomplishment that I seldom get when I photograph them on Antelope Island.
Tag: chukar
Chukar Calling In Warm Light
There’s many things I like about this shot and only one I don’t. A ratio that good doesn’t happen often enough with this bird photographer.
Chukars Are Doing Their Spring Thing Again
For about half of the year most Chukars on Antelope Island are shy and inaccessible in more remote areas of the island but when spring rolls around they come out to play.
Coyote – The Shot That Might Have Been (and almost was…)
Birds “Wearing To Dark” – Chukars and Loggerhead Shrikes
Three Iconic Birds Of Antelope Island
If you visit Antelope Island to photograph birds this time of year your memory card will likely include more images of these three species than any other.
Curlew To Chukar – “Shut Up, I’m Trying To Sleep”
Chukar – Let There Be Light!
A Chukar Grazing Enthusiastically On Grass
Chukars actually eat and digest grass. When you think about it that’s a pretty neat trick.
A Chukar At Four Different Focal Lengths
Chukar Calling At Dawn
Flower Child Chukar
To my eye birds and flowers in a photograph have a natural affinity for each other.
Chukar – Wish For It And It May Happen
Recently while photographing birds on Antelope Island I remarked to Mia that I’d like to photograph a Chukar doing a wing-stretch, something I’d only seen once in the past.
Calling Chukar (and the frustrations of bright perches)
Chukar Negotiating A Slippery Slope
Chukars prefer not to fly and they don’t like to slip and fall so they’re very careful when negotiating slippery, steep surfaces.