Shooting badies
Posted in Bird, Bulbul, nature, Tailorbird on Aug 18th, 2010
Today’s beautiful birdies – especially the colors on the Tailorbird. Bulbul and a Tailorbird [click the pics for a full view]
Tag Archive 'Tailorbird'
“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 [...]
2009 already, and camera in bag!
Posted in Bangladesh, Bird, Dhaka, Maina, nature, new year, random thoughts, Tailorbird on Jan 2nd, 2009
It has been work-work-work for the past 3 weeks and not a moment spare to pick up the camera. Ah well. Needed to change that! Looked out the bedroom window and saw a pair of Jungle Mynas on the Mahogany tree. It was a bright day with the birds strongly shadowed and highly lit from [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]