{"id":109419,"date":"2022-04-01T04:22:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T10:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=109419"},"modified":"2022-04-01T04:44:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T10:44:04","slug":"chukar-calling-from-a-2-5-billion-year-old-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/01\/chukar-calling-from-a-2-5-billion-year-old-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Chukar Calling From A 2.5 Billion Year Old Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s old and then there’s really, really old.<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, f\/6.3, ISOO 800, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

Two days ago I heard this Chukar, very likely a male, on Antelope Island before I saw him. He wasn’t close so these photos have been cropped significantly but I think they held up pretty well.<\/p>\n

He was calling from atop one of the ancient Farmington Canyon Complex rocks that predominate on the southern 2\/3rds of the island. As I described in some detail in an earlier post<\/a><\/span><\/span>, the Farmington Canyon Complex, at 2.5 billion years old, is made up of some of the oldest rocks in Utah. Or anywhere.<\/p>\n

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1\/6400, f\/6.3, ISOO 800, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

Chukars have several calls but this one was using the Rally Call, the most common call of the species. The Rally call is “usually given from a rocky vantage point and carries for great distances. Function of this call during breeding season is primarily to space males rather than to attract a mate”.<\/p>\n

I love to photograph Chukars and other birds on top of these rocks. Their darker color is an easier exposure for the photographer and more attractive in photos than the almost white Tintic Quartzite rocks on the north end of the island, birds are more easily seen on the elevated perches and the romantic in me likes to imagine all the other birds and critters that have perched on the same rock in past millennia. I wonder if Pterodactyls liked to perch on rocks…<\/p>\n

So, I cropped this photo so we can see more of the rock and the green lichens.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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There’s old and then there’s really, really old. (2 photos)<\/p>\n

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