Brush Turkey on its mound

[wigz]

A Brush Turkey standing proudly on its quite large incubation mound.

Nikon D850, Sigma 150mm f/2.8 macro. 1/320 f/5.6 ISO 1400

[eaglem]

A good capture and that Bird put a lot of work into that mound.

[David_MC]

Very nice. That is an interesting looking Turkey.

[wigz]

Thanks David, the confusion of common names. They are interesting birds, though. They use the heat of the decaying leaf litter to incubate their eggs, and apparently adjust the height to maintain the correct temperature.

Unfortunately, they have adapted to suburbia and can make a mess of your garden by raking stuff up.

[Isac]

Great looking turkey Alan. It seems to be very happy (smiley face) to be showing off its work.

[wigz]

Thanks Isac. It certainly looked pleased with itself.

[Ozzie_Traveller]

+1
Phil

[HansE]

Nice angle and composition. Ticks all the boxes and tells a story. 5*

[wigz]

Thanks Hans.

[avkomp]

good job on capturing this behaviour. used to see a lot of these things and their mounds, not seen one since moving. nice light and details. well done

[wigz]

Thanks Stephen. I wasn’t set up for birds and a longer lens wouldn’t have helped anyway, because of the surrounding bush, but it let me get fairly close before it wandered off.

[avkomp]

they can be quite approachable whilst doing mound work

[AlfandBen]

Interesting looking bird nicely caught. Reminds me a bit of the early Ray Harryhausen animations.

[Paul-UK]

Nice shot Alan

It seems it allowed you to get close.

Great composition and DOF

Paul

[wigz]

Thanks Paul.