LPC: Fight!
Lesser Prairie Chickens - Milnesand Prairie Preserve, New Mexico
Once again the wind this morning had dropped way down so I was able to set up my blind around 5:00 at a new lek. By the time I was settled in and set up around 5:30 I was totally surrounded by displaying chickens. Shortly after sunrise, two birds started a fight on a raised mound off in the distance a tiny bit and the above image is the result. It is a crop from a horizontal image but I simply love it. Getting this image makes the entire morning though if I had to nitpick it I would wish for the fence in the background to disappear but hey, its part of the story.
Other highlights this morning included a couple of coyotes that passed through and I got some decent shots of them in the landscape. Several Cottontails (Desert rather than Eastern I think), burrowing owls, and Black-tailed Prairie Dogs also made an appearance throughout the morning.
