Sunday, May 8, 2016

Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse Close up (Male)

Before our trip to Mandvi,myself and Pankaj decided to go GRK for Great indian Bustard but our friend Dilipsinh told that we can sight only Great indian Bustard at GRK n other sighting will rare so we postponed our trip of GRK for next time n went to Fort Mahadev
Again we wake up early aprx around 5am n check out from our hotel,started journey towards Fort Mahadev.we stopped at one village n take tea n breakfast.we reached at Nakhatrana where our another friend Nirav Pomal was waiting n then went to Fort Mahadev. we parked Elantra coz its ground clearance was low n went in Nirav's Car.our target was for Black Francolin,we were late.
after all we got good shots of Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse Male and Female, Jungle Bush Quail.
We further went inside for Black Francolin but its  Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse day n sighted 4.we moved back n roaming in car here n there.it was around 10am n thought to return,sudden i see black color type bird shape n thought for Black Francolin so asked Nirav to stop the car n focused but it was a stone,we laughed.while i was looking around seen Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse female and we moved there in our car,even we made circle around this Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse in our car.from some distance we stopped n came out,started crawling towards it.while we approached to close n closure we stopped coz there was a male too...what a strange coz its so camouflage n our car might passed very close to this male n it didn't fly away.
Tomorrow i will post male and female close shot in one frame with video.


Exifs :
Canon 7D Mark2
Manual Mode
f /8 || Shutter speed 1/500 || ISO 200 || 600mm || White Balance : 5200K
Fort Mahadev, Kutch,Gujarat.

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