ML402877681
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
I was putting my head down and trying to get home in time for dinner... and... suddenly, almost from under my feet, a female Buttonquail scampered out, weaving this way and that through the long grass!!! I set off in hot pursuit; as is always the case without playback to help, the Buttonquail was one step ahead of me, always on the other side of each clearing as I broke through the trees, scampering away with its head held out long and low and its bright yellow chicken legs scurrying as it disappeared... but I still managed one shot where the pattern of the back and the foxy-red blaze on the shoulders are both clearly visible through the cutting grass, so that was something to delight in, as though a Buttonquail alone isn't delightful enough!!!
Technical information
- Model
- COOLPIX B600
- ISO
- 1600
- Focal length
- 143.3 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/200 sec
- Dimensions
- 4608 pixels x 3456 pixels
- Original file size
- 6.9 MB