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Jungle Babbler- Don't Mess with my Food!

Jungle Babbler

Posted on February 17, 2013May 20, 2021

I get to see a lot of birds without even leaving my home. I put a bowl of water for them in the balcony throughout the year. On weekends I give them a further incentive to visit my balcony. I will put something to eat as well. From my experience I know that the birds like oranges! They are happy with any other fruit but oranges give a certainty to attract birds.

I then click the pictures standing inside the room. This time the oranges attracted the jungle babblers. This bird kept giving me a stern eye as if to say bugger off let me have my food in peace! I was not obliging.

Jungle Babbler

Jungle Babbler

After a few pecks the birds were interested in the water and posing for me! It is great fun to do bird watching in the backyard. However jungle babblers are not my most favorite birds. They are loud, they are pushy and small birds have no chance to drink water or nibble at the fruits if they are in the vicinity. But they are fun to photograph as they seem to have mastered a wide variety of expressions! They often quarrel with each-other which adds to the photo opportunities.

They are also called seven sisters probably because they often move in a group, whether it is strictly seven, I am not too sure tough. They often invade my front yard as well, always noisy even when I do not keep any fruits for the birds. They are actually quite regular in my area! I think they look for insects on the ground.

Jungle Babbler Bath

Bath Time for the Jungle Babbler

Finally it was bath time before the bird flew away! If you like bird watching consider participating in the The Great Backyard Bird Count.

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14 thoughts on “Jungle Babbler”

  1. desi Traveler says:
    February 17, 2013 at 4:37 pm

    Beautiful pics… not sure if you have checked the site of Nature forever society

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  2. desi Traveler says:
    February 17, 2013 at 4:38 pm

    http://www.natureforever.org/

    OOPS ! I am not very good with putting links so giving it again

    Reply
  3. rupam { xhobdo } says:
    February 17, 2013 at 5:43 pm

    Beautiful shots & Nice post.

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  4. Avinash Gupta says:
    February 17, 2013 at 9:15 pm

    Very nice shots

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  5. Tushar says:
    February 17, 2013 at 11:04 pm

    These photos are better specially the second one.

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  6. indu chhibber says:
    February 18, 2013 at 7:55 am

    I too keep water in the balcony but i don’t click them.This jungle babbler looks very menacing is it a small relative of the eagle?

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  7. maliny says:
    February 18, 2013 at 11:47 am

    the second one is spot on 😉 Interesting pictures . Nice that you are feeding them . 🙂

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  8. Niranjan says:
    February 18, 2013 at 1:42 pm

    Lovely clicks :).

    http://www.rajniranjandas.blogspot.in

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  9. Meena Menon says:
    February 18, 2013 at 1:52 pm

    bugger off is hwa it really seems to be saying 😀

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  10. amit says:
    February 18, 2013 at 7:22 pm

    nice clicks…………….

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  11. Anuradha Shankar says:
    February 18, 2013 at 8:44 pm

    nice pics!!!! and this is a grt initiative… was going to participate this weekend, but got busy with other stuff and forgot 🙁

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  12. Anki S says:
    February 18, 2013 at 10:55 pm

    Never knew birds like oranges.So gud to know.Great captures love them all.

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  13. Ajeeth boaz says:
    February 19, 2013 at 2:47 pm

    Great shots, angry bird looks… Loved the last pic…

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  14. Meenakshi Malhotra says:
    February 19, 2013 at 4:00 pm

    Stunning photographs. Loved the second one.

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