If you read my Blog entry from yesterday evening you can see that I had been out to a location in Mid-Devon to photograph Little Owls, a species that has eluded me for many a year although they are around, its just a matter of luck, a good tip off or being in the right place at the right time.. I drove home full of excitement after some great success and nearly collided with a Red-legged Partridge which was in the road in front of the car. I stopped immediately and backed up far enough away so that I could get the camera out of the boot without disturbing it. It waited around for some weird reason and then I took some nice pictures. This is another species that is not rare here in Devon, possibly this one could have even been released for shooting because this is the fate of this beautiful game bird in exactly the same way as 1000's of Pheasants. Never the less this is a species that I haven't taken good pictures of before and I gladly took the opportunity. A car approached from the other direction and then it scurried up drive way and in to a farm yard where it posed on top of an old dung pile and what looks like, oddly road salt?
I am quite used to the idea of Pheasants being shot but the idea of shooting these Partridges is a bit more difficult to accept as pretty as they are. But you have to accept that without shooting they would not be here.
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