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Posted in Arm-chair birding, Bangladesh, Bird, Dhaka, nature, Sunbird, Tailorbird on Dec 1st, 2008
The Tailorbird and the Sunbird are hyper-active little birds – constantly on the move and hardly ever still. They usually are on a branch or twig for just a few seconds before they move again. Both these birds are in the 10 to 14 cm size tip of beak to end of tail and weigh [...]
Posted in Bangladesh, Bird, Dhaka, Exhibition, Gallery, Photography, Portrait, Samiul Mohsanin on Nov 25th, 2008
A multi photographers bird-photography exhibition - I went to view Samiul Mohsanin’s photos today. A treat! Samiul is a student of Jahangirnagar University, extremely knowledgable about the habitat and birds, and has hosted us and been our guide on a previous birding visit. Samiul Mohsanin: The exhibition is being held at birder and naturalist Enam Ul Haque’s home [...]
Posted in Bangladesh, Bird, Chestnut-tailed Starling, Dhaka, nature, Starling on Nov 20th, 2008
My window with a view. Office in the trees. Whatever. Arm-chair birding, lazy-birding. Whatever. New visitor captured today while trying to do some data recovery to a failed and corrupted storage-drive….The data recovery process looks like a possibility, just need to get the right tools [decide which software to use]. In the mean time, I’ve [...]
Posted in Bangladesh, Bird, Dhaka, nature, Oriole on Nov 4th, 2008
My office in the trees has turned out to be a great place for lazy birdwatching! The Sunbirds and others have come and now gone, but the Orioles are back. They perch on the branches of the Mango tree right outside the window. This morning, one came and visited for a few minutes. I grabbed the [...]
Posted in Barbet, Bulbul, Flycatcher, forest, India, Indian Institute Of Advanced Study, Laughingthrush, Mashobra, nature, Shimla, Sidhora, Treecreeper, Vice Regal Lodge, White-eye, Whitethroat on Oct 5th, 2008
A quick trip to get some long overdue work done at our cottage in Simla. The view of the Himalayan Range from the air [Dhaka to Delhi] was spectacular, though I could not capture the “spactularness” due to the dirty aircraft windows… Little time to photograph the surrounds and birds. That meant I had to be [...]
Posted in Bangladesh, Bird, Dhaka, nature, Sparrow on Sep 24th, 2008
This particular branch on the Mango tree outside my study window gets the most birds… wonder why? I’ve photographed many birds on this branch now and they keep coming back, twittering and tweeting at me from there. This Sparrow stayed on this branch for over 10 minutes. He was curious, and kept moving his head [...]
Posted in Bangladesh, Bird, Dhaka, Flameback, nature on Sep 22nd, 2008
A chance meeting when this Flameback revisited after a long time…. there are a bunch of them who were regular visitors but I’ve not spotted them in a while though I hear them sometimes. Today while waiting for “my” Sunbird to come for his daily portrait session, I heard this Flameback tapping the wood of [...]