Great photos!
Unless you can hit birds on the wing with these handguns at 25-40 yards, you won't get photos of our wilder NV birds.
Up around Libby I use a Ruger Standard 22 pistol for some.
In NV anything but a shotgun is illegal for birds of any sort.
I wish we had ruffed down here like you do there.
We have a few isolated pockets of them. We have good blue populations if you know where to look.