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<\/p>\nI have “better” photos of Chukars but this one from yesterday morning means more to me than most of them.<\/p>\n
The vast majority of my Chukar photos have been taken on Antelope Island and every last one of my really good ones were taken there. Chukars on the island are more habituated to humans than Chukars elsewhere so they’re much more approachable. That’s an understatement!<\/p>\n
Chukars are notorious for being difficult to locate. Their preferred habitat of dry high-elevation shrublands between 4,000 and 13,000 feet makes them physically exhausting to find as they hide out on steep, rocky hillsides and they’re skulkers when you do manage to find them. In the hunting community Chukars have the reputation of being the most difficult upland game quarry.<\/p>\n
Something similar could be said for bird photography.<\/p>\n
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1\/6400, f\/7.1, ISO 800, 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>\n So I was delighted to get some pretty darned nice photos of this Chukar yesterday morning in the remote Promontory Mountains. This presumed male was on the steep hillside above me as he called out to another Chukar that I could hear but couldn’t see. I only had a short time with him before he disappeared over the top of the rocky hillside.<\/p>\n I have better photos of Chukars but all of them were taken on Antelope Island where Chukars can be almost tame so getting nice photos of them there can be relatively easy. Not so elsewhere – far from it. So I value this photo more than I do many of my “better” Chukar photos.\u00a0It’s probably for the same reason I don’t shoot setups or photograph critters at zoos or game farms.<\/p>\n For me degree of difficulty and “natural” matter.<\/p>\n Ron<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Notes:<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have “better” photos of Chukars but this one from yesterday morning means more to me than most of them.<\/p>\n\n