This Common Stone-chat (Saxicola torquatus) was flying around in very fast manoeuvres in the grass and shrubs around us then It sat on the tip of a small branch of a nearby shrub, I lazily eyes it and saw it in the beautiful light and slowly picked up the Camera and placed it on the beanbag and clicked it. After just the first click, if flew away.
During Jan, 2014, I was visiting Bijrani Range of JCNP with my friend Nischal Goel.
In the after noon we were looking for the big cats but found none and then we decided to take a route to Ringoda side of this range. It was cold and breezy. As we reached the grasslands at Ringoda we saw a lot of bird activity in the tall grass which was dotted with few shrubs. We asked our driver to stop the vehicle and we just sat their lazily enjoying the sun and few birds around us.
This Common Stone-chat (Saxicola torquatus) was flying around in very fast manoeuvres in the grass and shrubs around us then It sat on the tip of a small branch of a nearby shrub, I lazily eyes it and saw it in the beautiful light and slowly picked up the Camera and placed it on the beanbag and clicked it. After just the first click, if flew away.
Clicked with Nikon D7100 (with inbuilt crop factor of 1.3X) Nikon AF-S Nikkor 200-400 mm f/4 G ED VR-II lens and Nikon 1.7x tele-converter at 550 mm f/6.7 ~ 1100 mm f/6.7 (on 1.5x DX body with 1.3x crop activated). ISO 200, 1/640, Exp Compensation -0.67, Spot metering.
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