Friday’s birds
Posted in Bird, Bulbul, Chestnut-tailed Starling, Dhaka, Sunbird on Apr 24th, 2009
This Friday’s lazy arm-chair birding…. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Sunbirds ~ a Bulbul ~ and a Starling. Made my day!
Tag Archive 'Starling'
“Arm-chair” birding again
Posted in Bangladesh, Bird, Dhaka, nature, Starling, Tailorbird on Mar 10th, 2009
A nice morning for some arm-chair birding [the series of the Starlings were taken lying in bed and watching them through my bedroom window....AhHa!]. These photos were done with 2 SB800 speedlights in the Nikon CLS mode.. One SB800 on camera and one lying on the windowsill aimed into the tree. CLS allows for great [...]
Spring and a Red Silk Cotton Tree
Posted in Bangladesh, Bird, Bulbul, Dhaka, Flower, Maina, nature, Starling, tree on Feb 21st, 2009
Driving back home on this warm [hot!] spring day and the “Red Silk Cotton Tree” [Bombax ceiba] is in full bloom showing off its glory. The birds flocking to suck up the nectar offered by the large red flowers. Got my gear, and set up a tripod at the side of the street attracting a [...]
More lazy birding
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 [...]
Itchy fingers
Posted in AISD, Black and White, Crow, Dance, Dhaka, Drama, Music, nature, nest, school, Starling, WIP on Mar 19th, 2008
For the past many weeks the WIP photo project for “The Jungle Book” production at AIS/D Elementary School had taken up all of my shooting time. Am not complaining! in case that is what it sounded like. It was a great experience, both photographically and to witness the progression of the learning process the kids [...]
The Mahogany trees are sprouting new leaves and the Starlings, Mainas and Magpie Robins are bringing bits of stuff to build nests… the color of the Mahogany leaves are bright orange red like fall colors anywhere else! Â Â click a thumbnail to see the full page photograph