Finsch‘s Wheatear and its little satellite
This wheatear was very shy and alert when I tried to photograph him. This was probably the reason the Siberian Chiffchaff hung around him - he always got warned when anything got too close. I observed the Chiffchaff changing places with the wheatear a few times before I had to leave that morning.
Part of our systematic migratory bird count in a vast desert landscape is that the counting teams cover multiple places in the desert, using equidistant observation points all laid out on an east-to-west line, this way covering around 20km of sky for 3-4 hours. We counted on four such locations, changing places every day. This picture was taken during our time off, in the morning before we had to get into the car and drive off-road for few hours.
Finsch‘s Wheatear and its little satellite
This wheatear was very shy and alert when I tried to photograph him. This was probably the reason the Siberian Chiffchaff hung around him - he always got warned when anything got too close. I observed the Chiffchaff changing places with the wheatear a few times before I had to leave that morning.
Part of our systematic migratory bird count in a vast desert landscape is that the counting teams cover multiple places in the desert, using equidistant observation points all laid out on an east-to-west line, this way covering around 20km of sky for 3-4 hours. We counted on four such locations, changing places every day. This picture was taken during our time off, in the morning before we had to get into the car and drive off-road for few hours.