A Rain Quail in the open on the roadside mound
A delightful little quail, size of a boys palm maybe. The birds breed during rains and are usually seen after the first rains. These birds have a very nice and easy to remember call, a two noted call "Chirp Chirp" which is very easy to hear and id, but the bird itself is very hard to sight in the grass / natural habitat.
This season in the grasslands, we heard many of them, far less than 100's we heard from last season though. The calls are so pleasant and beautiful to hear.
We were driving on a dust road when we saw a quail on an open rock, while we positioned the vehicle slowly to shoot that, this one came on the other side and stood like this much to our delight. And then another one came some 10 meters away from this. I am not sure why they came out into the open like that, but fun shooting like this.
Thanks in advance for your views and feedback. Much appreciated.
A Rain Quail in the open on the roadside mound
A delightful little quail, size of a boys palm maybe. The birds breed during rains and are usually seen after the first rains. These birds have a very nice and easy to remember call, a two noted call "Chirp Chirp" which is very easy to hear and id, but the bird itself is very hard to sight in the grass / natural habitat.
This season in the grasslands, we heard many of them, far less than 100's we heard from last season though. The calls are so pleasant and beautiful to hear.
We were driving on a dust road when we saw a quail on an open rock, while we positioned the vehicle slowly to shoot that, this one came on the other side and stood like this much to our delight. And then another one came some 10 meters away from this. I am not sure why they came out into the open like that, but fun shooting like this.
Thanks in advance for your views and feedback. Much appreciated.