Quail in flight

ronwoodcraft · Mar 31, 2020

Took this yesterday during a sort of light period on a cloudy day. Flying through a hole in the brush. Both are crops from the same original raw file.

Kray Gelder · Mar 31, 2020

Terrific shot! I've never seen that aspect on a quail before. Really cool!

tamrock · Mar 31, 2020

Outstanding once more there Ron

glass half fool · Mar 31, 2020

They are captured beauty in action Very nice

fyrffytr1 · Mar 31, 2020

Beautiful. What type quail are they?

old digger · Mar 31, 2020

That's Nice! :thumbsup:

ronwoodcraft · Apr 1, 2020

fyrffytr1 said:
Beautiful. What type quail are they?

They are California Quail. They were introduced to Idaho about 1900.

ronwoodcraft · Apr 1, 2020

Thanks Everyone!
I go through this same scenario a few times a day..Look out the window and a group of quail will be looking for food where I always feed them. I step out side and they freak out and fly into the brush on the other side of the creek..I'll throw out some chicken scratch and go back inside. As soon as I close the door, they come flying back to the feed.

I've watched them and noticed they always come flying back through the brush in about the same place, either under, over, or around the end of that stick on the left....Yesterday, I threw the scratch out, hid behind the porch rail, and used manual focus with the 400mm lens, and focused on that stick..When about a dozen of them started flying in, I just held the shutter button down rapid fire and took about 20 shots and got one that was in the focal area.