2 purple and yellow Sunbirds come to a flowering shrub in the small garden patch which projects out from our apartment into the Mahogany trees outside. They have been busy destroying the shrub by pulling off the outer fibrous bark to take for nest-building…. and I’ve been trying to shoot photograph them for weeks now. Without any success. The few frames I got, are too dark. So, I setup 2 SB800s suspended them with bungee-cords to the grille above and put a 300mm on the camera inside the room. I wait and I wait and wait and nothing happens! Then, just as I move off for a coffee or a ciggy – I can hear the tweets! By the time I am in position, they are gone…. Anyway, while waiting in vain I’ve photographed raindrops, flowers from the shrub, and today a dragonfly that spent a while visiting and keeping me company…… but no Sunbirds yet.
Waiting for the sunbirds
Apr 20th, 2008 by Anil
[...] managed to get a few photos of the Sunbirds who keep coming back to this shrub to strip off the dry stringy bark for nest-building…. [...]