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 [...]
Sunbirds, at last
Posted in Bangladesh, Bird, Dhaka, nature, nest, Sunbird on Aug 15th, 2008
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…. Â
Waterbaby and Sunbirds
Posted in Bangkok, Mannat, Sunbird, sunset, Swimming, Thailand on Jul 11th, 2008
    TGIF! And so Mannat was straight into the pool this afternoon after school with a rubber ball that she would submerge and then let it “bounce” out of the water. This went on for an hour….and then she spotted a pair of Sunbirds in the shrubs, I got a few frames as they went into [...]