You can't take a bird after it puts on such a display for you. This bird was about 10 yards in the woods along a forest service road. There were 3 of them together. As you can see, they weren't particularly protected by brush, though there was a nice thicket a few yards out of view. We stopped the truck to look back at them and decided to see if we could ease out with our camera to crawl back to them. Two of the birds got a little skittish and walked a good ways away, but this one decided to stay and dance. It was a pretty cool experience. We took our pictures, then thanked the bird before moving along.
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