ML65854461

Age and sex

Adult, Unknown sex - X

Observation details

Walking back from the top having just seen snowcocks we were ecstatic already, and we had basically given up hope on this species after looking for it the entire trip. Suddenly, I just saw one sitting their feeding on the trail, but as soon as I saw it it flushed into a pine tree nearby, but it was still visible. We got down, and watched it sitting obscured for about five minutes. Eventually it started to hop around on some of the branches, and flew down to the ground again, but into some dense grasses, and we could not relocate it. Unfortunately David and James were taking a long time coming down since they would've liked to have seen this bird as well. Still, we were thrilled to see it. Definitely an adult, possibly a male.

Technical information

Model

Canon EOS REBEL T2i

ISO

2500

Focal length

250 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire, auto

f-stop

f/5.6

Shutter speed

1/1600 sec

Dimensions

3102 pixels x 1992 pixels

Original file size

4.98 MB