Blue Grouse Portrait

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Blue Grouse Portrait

For Macromavens
365 Caws, Day 358

Hiking in the fresh snow above Paradise today, I ran into a clutch of three Blue Grouse at the top of Alta Vista. Not at all shy around me, I was able to get a number of shots both distant and close up. In fact, they were so busy pecking seeds off the ground that I had to whistle, stamp my feet, cough and make any variety of other noises to get them to look up. This image was taken at 74x zoom (digital) at a distance of approximately ten feet from the bird. It has not been cropped, although I did have to adjust brightness and contrast rather heavily because the mist between us was very dense.

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