Gambel's Quail

[Geoffrey Montagu]

Captured this image in San Antonio, NM in late afternoon bit over a week ago. C&C welcome.


D500, Sigma 150-600mm C @ 550mm, 1/640s, f 6.3, HH, ISO 200



Geoffrey




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[Joseph Przybyla]

Hey Geoffrey, beautiful bird, perfect background. The perch is a bit unfortunate that it is not running away from the bird, still a nice image of a bird I do not see often on BPN. Thank you for sharing.

[Kamal Hari Menon]

Beautiful bird and pose..

Perch is not the ideal one but it is fine.. what is more worrying me is the jpeg compression artifacts in the blurred background.

TFS

[Bill Dix]

Very nice pose against good bg. Good light. Perch noted. How nice it was for this covey to pose for us right across from our B&B, just when we had about given up hope.

[Aditya Sridhar]

What a beautiful bird! Love the crest and the head angle. Issues reg. compression and perch mentioned above. Must've been a great sighting!

[Paul Burdett]

Ditto the other comments. Great looking bird. If it were mine I'd clone out the twigs to the right of the bird, leaving a small section visible. The face also seems a little soft to me.

[John Mack]

Very nice pose from a vert beautiful bird.

[Geoffrey Montagu]

Thank you everyone.


Geoffrey




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