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Lazy Sunday Photo- The Water Pot Birds

Posted on April 25, 2010

I managed to click some pictures at the water pots again. Had a few Bulbuls too this time. Some sunbirds do come but it is very difficult to get a decent shot of them. How I am hankering after the 100-400mm lens.

bird piegon
At the Water Pot

The Pigeons are now a regular. I used to click the pictures from inside my room thinking the birds would not come if I went outside in the balcony as there is very little space but that is not the case.

Piegon bird
Piegon bird

The light made the neck of the Pigeon look quite colorful!

Laughing Dove, bird
Do I Take a Dip?

This one looked undecided for quite sometime. Actually all the birds carefully look around before dipping their beaks.

Red vented Bulbul, bird
Finally the Water Pot!

Managed to catch a few Bulbuls too this time. They come in ones and twos and really don’t seem to be bothered about my presence.

Bulbul red vented, bird
Finally some Water!

A Bulbul also decides that it is time to say to hell with the world and drink some water, how harmful that black ponting in my direction could be?

Bee eating bird
Bee Eating Bird?

And then there was this beauty (I think it is a bee eating Bird but I could be wrong) in the distance for which my 70-300mm lens is no good. I am really drooling about a 100-400 but I wonder how much more zoom do I get?

12 thoughts on “Lazy Sunday Photo- The Water Pot Birds”

  1. sm says:
    April 25, 2010 at 7:17 pm

    beautiful shots

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  2. Tarun says:
    April 25, 2010 at 6:54 pm

    Humans are never satisfied by whatever they have in hand.
    Nice pictures,

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  3. Twilight Fairy says:
    April 25, 2010 at 7:03 pm

    yeah the last one is called a “green bee eater” .. and eats bees 🙂

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  4. Anu says:
    April 26, 2010 at 3:39 am

    Beautiful!!! even at our place, the pigeons and crows dont fly away when we open the window, but the bulbuls are a bit more reticent..as to sunbirds, they vanish the moment we approach!

    and the last one is a small green bee eater… good pic!

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  5. rody says:
    April 26, 2010 at 4:35 pm

    you being really lucky as for taking pictures so beautifully of these birds, i also would like to take snaps such a way

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  6. Mridula says:
    April 26, 2010 at 5:05 pm

    Tarun, I rarely have an spending urge, so do not try and talk me out of it.

    Thanks TF for stopping by.

    Thank you FM.

    Anu I agree I find the sun birds the most difficult to capture!

    Thank you Manish, I am trying to become a bird watcher.

    Doli, that is a Dove and where is the post you have promised with the bird pictures.

    TF thanks for pitching in, my beti is finally asleep and I am on the net again.

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    1. Tarun says:
      April 26, 2010 at 5:32 pm

      Sorry if you are offended never meant that,

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  7. Manish Kumar says:
    April 26, 2010 at 2:44 pm

    You have become an expert ‘birdwatcher’. Nice pics.

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  8. Doli says:
    April 26, 2010 at 4:40 pm

    hey in the “Do I Take a Dip?” picture, is that a pigeon or a dove? I saw the same brownish bird here.. so was wondering what bird it is

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  9. Twilight Fairy says:
    April 26, 2010 at 4:45 pm

    Doli – “do i take a dip” is a dove. the first two images are pigeons

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  10. Pooja says:
    April 26, 2010 at 5:30 pm

    Very nice pictures. You have a Nikon, right ?

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    1. Mridula says:
      April 26, 2010 at 5:48 pm

      No Pooja this is not with the Nikon point and shoot this is with the Canon DSLR.

      Reply

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