Red-legged Partridge chick
A tiny Red-legged Partridge chick – probably just a few days old – stands alone on the edge of a country road, as the hen Partridge has quickly disappeared into a hedge just off-screen to leave the fledgling to fend on its own…
All worked out well though: as I walked on, the Mother game bird popped back out and corralled this one and the rest of the chicks together, then they all took off across a nearby field.
*Shot on an Olympus E-M1 Mk1 16mp m4/3 pro mirrorless camera using a Panasonic 100-300mm f/4-5.6 MEGA O.I.S lens with camera settings at ISO-400, aperture at f/4, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/1000 seconds*
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