The truth is that there are certain photographs that pose a challenge for the photographer. A major challenge simply because of the difficulty of get your head as it has been imagined. I always wanted to shoot quail in northern Leon, but it is an almost desperate when you face a field in which several copies sing and not get to see not a single movement of any of them. My previous sightings had been shooting quail surveys of the birds in front of my feet, but this week I could see and photograph a quail as he had always imagined.
Quail (Coturnix coturnix ) years as these that have been heavy rainfall make the quail are more abundant in our latitudes. As you know this is a trans-migratory species that visit us in April-May to breed on the peninsula. It seems incredible that birds with the size of a quail (16 cm long approx) develop travel of such caliber. There are 3 routes of travel to different destinations of the quail (the Peninsula and France, Siberia, etc ...)
this species is often associated with areas of countryside and crops with the typical image of the land of fields. But the environment in which I usually see these birds is in the green fields south of the Cantabrian Mountains. Sometimes I hear her singing over the 1500 meters.
Quail (Coturnix coturnix ) hunting high-value species in much of the peninsula on what I want to ask a question. There are many hunters who dare to say to shoot a quail is much more difficult to make a decent picture. I do not share that view because the quail hunting involves a great job by the dog and when I hit the shot the bird has taken flight, conditions in which to get a quality picture is complicated. Besides, a good photograph is not just about an approach to animal, but also must include a correct framing a particular light and action by the animal that gets to the photograph stand out. To shoot so close you do not need or have it all for light, and that the quail are singing to give some action. I'm not saying that killing a quail does not have merit but do not say that it is harder to make a good photograph.
The song of the quail is unmistakable. In the beginning with a sort of meowing when it seems to scratch the throat to go with the 3 syllables we all know which emit sound stretching and shrinking neck. Males dispute fights using his legs in the mating season. It is a polygamous species in which a male is reproduced with the greatest number of females that can turn and females mate with several males. Then 2 photographs of singing quail.
When you look at these birds up close understands why it is so difficult to see them. Is that still remain a threat to their cryptic plumage that blends in perfectly between the lights and shadows of the grasses of the meadows Iberians. There inidividuos with darker throat and other clearly.
always associate the quail to a story he told me my father when I was a kid. They were mowing the land and found a nest of quail. This circle is left uncut so that you take forward to the quail chicks. Year after year there is always an experience for each of the dens zone species.
plumage of the quail crÃpitco
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