Snow Buntings - Plectrophanes des neiges
This is the second image in the sequence - the previous image shows the beginning of the dispute, and this its rapid escalation. As I wrote: these are very tough birds, and very territorial.
While I was securing these images, a person drove down the road, and decided to discuss the fact that I was prone on a rural road taking photographs of Snow Buntings. I think the person may have been motivated by good will, as the person drew my attention to the fact that 300 metres down the road there was a Snowy Owl on a hydro pole. I thanked him - though he had, with his car, flushed the birds - and reassured him I knew.
He then commented, in a less helpful way, that these were Snow Buntings, as if to say ‘you know these are just passerines’, reinforcing the apparent oddity of lying on the road using a camera in their company. I thanked him, and then got the distinct impression he wanted to get out of his car and take a photograph of me. I was pleased when he drove on, and the birds eventually returned.
Snow Buntings - Plectrophanes des neiges
This is the second image in the sequence - the previous image shows the beginning of the dispute, and this its rapid escalation. As I wrote: these are very tough birds, and very territorial.
While I was securing these images, a person drove down the road, and decided to discuss the fact that I was prone on a rural road taking photographs of Snow Buntings. I think the person may have been motivated by good will, as the person drew my attention to the fact that 300 metres down the road there was a Snowy Owl on a hydro pole. I thanked him - though he had, with his car, flushed the birds - and reassured him I knew.
He then commented, in a less helpful way, that these were Snow Buntings, as if to say ‘you know these are just passerines’, reinforcing the apparent oddity of lying on the road using a camera in their company. I thanked him, and then got the distinct impression he wanted to get out of his car and take a photograph of me. I was pleased when he drove on, and the birds eventually returned.