ML109228551

Age

Not specified

Sex

Not specified

Observation details

I suspect there were more.Two seen in one spot another heard in another. Some interesting behaviour seen. One bird literally popped up out of the grass, by this I mean it flew about 20-30 centimetres above the grass.(Ged Tranter another birder asked me a few weeks ago if I had seen this before as he had seen similar behaviour from what looked like small quail ) It was just a little black ball that popped up and then dropped straight back down. They seemed to have little tunnels that ran in the grass. Their stealth was amazing and in one case the bird circled me without me being able to see it at all at a distance of less than a meter or two. Call was also interesting and I will post this when I have edited it. The calls they used were not all those on the apps. They were a delight to see and really something special. I hated seeing them in a pet shop a few years ago.

Technical information

Model

COOLPIX P900

ISO

1100

Focal length

42.8 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire, auto

f-stop

f/4.5

Shutter speed

1/30 sec

Dimensions

3886 pixels x 2863 pixels

Original file size

3.07 MB