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By anil on 2008-08-15 18:45:03 - 14 days ago.

Sunbirds, at last

Finally! managed to get a few photos of the Sunbirds [this one is a Female. Purple Rumped - Leptocoma zeylonica ] who keep coming back to this shrub to strip off the dry stringy bark for nest-building....

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By anil on 2008-05-01 15:03:50 - 3 months and 28 days ago.

Gotcha!

Red-Vented Bulbul [Pycnonotus cafer bengalensis]. The pair perch on this branch and one keeps watch while the other feeds the chicks in the nest below. They are quick, and will fly off as soon as they think there is any danger. They keep a look out for me on the balcony, and will go perch elsewhere if I am too obvious. Today I setup the camera on a tripod, pre-focused the 300mm lens on the branch stump, and attached a remote wireless shutter release. All I had to do was hit the release button when he [she?] came and perched on the way to the nest. Gotcha!