New Photograph July 2021
California Quail Couple
Canon EOS R5, RF600mm lens.
Sometimes the most ordinary of circumstances can be magical. A rustle in a Redwood grabbed my attention as I walked out my door toward my car. It turned out to be an adult California Quail. I grabbed my R5 with the RF800mm still on it from whale watching. The bird was too close to focus, I switched to the RF600mm and listened for the bird in the tree. It turned out to be multiple adults and more than a dozen babies which paraded before our eyes, even posing on the fence before they hopped up the hillside into Golden Gate National Park.