Prairie Chicken 4.5?

OK, I promise this is my last Greater Prairie Chicken image for the year....however, it's my first Sharptail Grouse image of the year and I thought the story that goes along with it was kind of interesting. When I first started visiting leks in the Fort Pierre National Grasslands, I was surprised to learn that it is not terribly uncommon for GPC and Sharptail leks to occur immediately adjacent to each other. When this happens you will see occasional conflicts between species. This image though, shows something new to me. An otherwise "pure" GPC lek with a solitary Sharptail male staking out his own territory and scuffling with any GPC male that came his way. I saw no other Sharptails that morning. Maybe he thinks GPC females are exotic?? Probably not though since he didn't get nearly as aggitated when a GPC female came through the lek as did the GPC crew. At any rate he faced off with many Prairie Chicken males and even if a bit smaller he held his own. C and C welcome.

1D4, 500 f4 + 1.4x, iso 800, 1/250, f13, propped in blind window