Red Grouse

Sorry have not posted much lately, have been trying to capture this sort of photo all winter. Easy to get them flying away from you, but more difficult to get them coming at you (without the help of men with flags). After finding some grouse and sort of working out their habits, I have spent many happy an hour waiting for a close fly-by that I was quick enough to capture!
Cropped on all sides to about 70% of orignal, D2x, 500mm @ 1/1250 sec, f6.3 ISO 400, bag hide.
Cheers Simon

Hi Simon
nice action shot of the Red Grouse. Your perseverance has paid off. I have tried but without success up till now.
John
Aberdeen

Hats off to you Simon. A very difficult shot to achieve. Love that underwing patterning.

Hi Simon

Nice shot and ditto what Clive said!

David

Hello Simon
Great capture, well deserved.
Best wishes
Phil

What a great capture.
Love the way the bird appears to be looking towards your direction.Nicely positioned within the frame also.
A fine image to have in your collection.

It is well caught, but I'd like to see some moor, as they do skim over the heather. Still great stuff.



Tim

Thanks for the comments. Attached is a recrop including moorland but it maybe too distant.
In order to have greater sucess with the autofocus I had positioned myself so any birds would be against sky rather than heather.
Cheers Simon

Hi Simon

Really great image fromn a v. difficult shot - an aspect normally only viewed from behind a shotgun. The underwings are beautiful and seldom seen in photos.

Malcolm

Hi Simon

Much prefer the second image.

Nice one

Great, I too prefer the second, as the bird seems better placed in the frame to me, it has some room at the bottom to fly into...