I had the reverse happen. Driving slowly along a track south between Costa Calma and La Pared on Fuerteventura a good few years ago (2009). I left our aprtment early to try to avoid sun-seekers who would walk across the narrow neck of the island there, as we'd seen on a visit the previous afternoon to get from Costa Calma resort to the empty beaches on the west side of the island. I saw the head of a jogger crossing the track well in front of me, a few hundred yards, over a slight rise. I cursed my luck that even my early start hadn't got me there early enough to avoid the tourists, especially when the jogger suddenly crossed again, going back in the opposite direction. One thing puzzled me though, even though it was early, surely it wasn't so cold, even in March as to need the white hat the jogger appeared to be wearing.
I made more progess along the track, watching to each side for cream-coloured coursers, stone curlew, lesser short toed larks etc, then I suddenly came across my jogger running in circles, crossing and recrossing the track right next to my car. The 'white hat' was a ruff of white feathers and what was wearing it wasn't a jogger, but a male houbara bustard, another target species along the track, in full display.
I've tried attacting an MP4 of the video I took of the display, but for some reason only the audio track (which is useless) uploads and the images are absent. Here's a still instead. (EDIT) I was getting my trips mixed up. It was in the days before I had my DSLR. I posted a shot at the same place in error from a later trip in 2011. The revised photo is the bird that I saw displaying. Apologies.
