Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult Female - X
Observation details
Initially picked up a pair on arrival, a male following a female. Following these birds around led us to a group of five in the road. JAK then spotted a displaying male some distance away which we decided to drive closer to but it unfortunately stopped displaying by the time we had driven closer. It actually appeared that it may have stopped displaying as a result of our presence despite being 200 m away. This male began to wander towards the group of five so we drove back around to watch them. Here we watched the original five birds foraging but there was no sign of the sixth. After a few minutes the group broke up into two foraging females and a pair of males intently persuing a female which led to the female turning and raising it's wings at the males either whilst leaning forward or in an upright stance. Occasionally the female would also jump. Despite this, the males remained unperturbed. As the birds approached our car, the female took flight and flew over the car before landing 50 m away on the other side of the road. One male followed her flying over the car whilst the other began foraging. We left the birds as another car arrived with one male pursuing the female.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 7D Mark II
- Lens
- EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM
- ISO
- 800
- Focal length
- 400 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/500 sec
- Dimensions
- 960 pixels x 640 pixels
- Original file size
- 140.71 KB