{"id":6932,"date":"2012-12-28T15:31:23","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T21:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=6932"},"modified":"2025-11-29T16:52:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T22:52:28","slug":"chukar-in-fresh-fallen-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2012\/12\/28\/chukar-in-fresh-fallen-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Chukar In Fresh Fallen Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ChukarChukar and fresh snow – Nikon D300, f9, 1\/1000, ISO 640, Nikkor 200-400mm VR with 1.4x TC at 321mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

Snow fell on Antelope Island<\/span><\/a> last night and it made for wonderful settings for the subjects I photographed like this Chukar in fresh fallen snow. I haven’t been seeing the Chukars regularly lately so I was very pleased to see them again. I noticed last year around this time that they were difficult to find too.<\/p>\n

\"ChukarChukar hunkered down in snow – Nikon D300, f9, 1\/800, ISO 640, +0.3 EV, Nikkor 200-400mm VR with 1.4x TC at 357mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

I love to photograph my subjects in all kinds of settings and light so fresh snow was a given, I had to get photos of the\u00a0Chukars as they pushed their bills into the snow to find food.<\/p>\n

To me Chukars always look kind of rotund and I think that being in the snow makes that even more obvious.<\/p>\n

\"BadBad Seed? Chukar tongue – Nikon D300, f9, 1\/800, ISO 640, +0.3 EV, Nikkor 200-400mm with 1.4x TC 357mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

Sorry for the bad pun but it did look like this Chukar<\/span><\/a> was up chukin’. It is really just eating and I caught the bill open and showing the bird’s tongue, you can see the food the bird was eating under the upper mandible.<\/p>\n

I was going to post these tomorrow but couldn’t wait. I may have patience when it comes to bird photography but I lack some when it comes to sharing my images here. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a><\/span> to see more of my Chukar photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fresh snow fell on Antelope Island last night and it made for wonderful settings for the subjects I photographed this morning like this Chukar. I haven’t been seeing the Chukars regularly lately so I was very pleased to see them again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":165129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[511,27,442,1022,26],"tags":[4004,4146,445,4773,4286,4040,4492,4050,4093,401,373],"class_list":["post-6932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antelope-island-state-park","category-avian","category-chukars","category-davis-county-utah","category-utah","tag-adult","tag-alectoris-chukar","tag-chukar","tag-chukars","tag-eating","tag-feeding","tag-fresh-snow","tag-snow","tag-snow-covered","tag-upland-game-birds","tag-winter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t