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1\/2500, f\/6.3, ISO 250, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\nSo I was delighted to get some reasonably good photos of this bird yesterday morning in a relatively remote area of the Promontory Peninsula in northern Utah. It was quite nervous and I could tell it was trying to decide whether to fly off or just walk away from me and disappear over the snow covered rock.\u00a0In the end it\u00a0chose the latter. This is the only decent shot\u00a0I got before it crested the mound of snow and sadly I cut off the “virtual feet” of the bird.<\/p>\n
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1\/2500, f\/6.3, ISO 250, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\nAs it crested the “hill” it gave me an over the shoulder look and then…<\/p>\n
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1\/3200, f\/6.3, ISO 250, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\nmostly disappeared over the mound of snow. After this all I could see of the bird was its head and neck sticking up so I started to drive down the road. As soon as my pickup began to move it flushed another Chukar that I hadn’t seen about 20′ away. Damn, I wish I’d seen that bird!<\/p>\n
Yes, I probably have “better” Chukar photos then these. But my appreciation of these\u00a0images illustrates one of my philosophies related to “degree of difficulty” when it comes to bird photography.\u00a0Photos\u00a0of truly wild Chukars are much more\u00a0challenging to get than similar shots of\u00a0the relatively tame birds\u00a0on Antelope Island and in my book that puts a premium on them.<\/p>\n
Viewers of my images don’t know the difference but I do.<\/p>\n
Ron<\/p>\n
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