A Nightjar is a nocturnal bird. It was so difficult to spot and then photograph. You can see how well camouflaged the bird is. I used Picnik to edit it and whatever little I used it for, I am liking it, gives me more flexibility than Picasa and yet lets me upload the pictures from Picasa itself. Clicked…
Category: Birds
Yet More Purple Sunbirds
I managed to click Purple Sunbirds on Saturday and then on the same Bottle Brush Flowers I found it again. I guess I just got lucky. Let us see if I find it again on this weekend as well, these and the Indian Grey Hornbill as well. And to think of it that I had…
Another Green Bee Eating Bird
Another one of the backyard birds, a Green Bee Eating Bird this time. Liked the way I could get the red of the eyes. Never managed to see it before.
As the Sun Sets
The bird was sitting against the sun and let me take two pictures before it flew away. I think it is a purple sunbird but somehow looks bigger sitting against the sun. It then went on to sit on the bottle brush flowers again. And kept on showing its beautiful neck. But those pictures are…
Indian Grey Hornbill
A friend on Facebook asked today but where do you get to click birds in Delhi/Gurgaon. I think if we look around we can find pictures in Delhi/Gurgaon quite easily. I do not live in high rise areas and my neighborhood has trees as well. So this Indian Grey Horbill has been clicked on my…
Lazy Sunday Photo- Purple Sunbird on Bottle Brush Flowers
Yesterday was a good day. As soon as I started on my bird round I saw a lot of parrots making a huge racket. But they were really far away and I had no way to get closer to them. Then after a while, when I reached my bird lane, I saw this purple sunbird…
It is all in the Eyes
This Myna had everything going for it, it had a funky hairstyle, a great eye makeup but had no sense of lighting. Look where it decided to pose! Went to the shades, so there are shadows in the picture. However much I pleaded, it did not yield. I still like Dhaba birds as my models, they are…
Sparrows in the Backyard
My neighbor puts a lot of bird feed and I get to click the pictures. I wish I had the pose of the first sparrow along with the background of the second (loved that bougainvillea flowers background) but then birds are one of the worst models of the world. And yet when it comes to…
Lazy Sunday Photo- A Black Redstart Bird
I have posted a Black Redstart before but that was just the excitement of spotting a bird for the first time. But yesterday I managed to get better pictures at the same spot where I had found the Black Redstart a few weeks earlier.
Black Winged Stilt- My World Tuesday
On my way to work, there is a collection of water by the roadside and it has turned out to be a small stagnant water pond. In winter, a lot of Black Winged Stilts come and sit there. So yesterday I decided to park my car and take a few pictures. It was a foggy…