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 'Sunbird'
The tiny little [difficult] ones
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 [...]
Becoming ‘friends’
Posted in Bangladesh, Bird, Dhaka, flash, nature, Sunbird on Sep 21st, 2008
This Sunbird comes to the Mango tree every day a few times a day and is getting used to seeing me… he comes closer [and allows me to approach a foot or two closer than ever before]. He came perched on this branch chirping, and looked directly at me taking photographs. I was shooting into [...]
A new office in the trees [well, almost]
Posted in Bangladesh, Bird, Dhaka, nature, Treepie on Sep 4th, 2008
IÂ just took over a spare room which has large glass windows across almost the entire width of the room – and it faces right into the Mango and Mahogany trees. I can slide open the windows, and reach into the tree. No mangoes yet, but that would be something to look forward to in the [...]
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 [...]