- Things never ever happen the way we plan.
- and Thus we end up with beautiful memories.
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Anyways it was mid of November and it rained like it was just begining of the monsoons. It poured down for almost ten hours straight thus shooing away the birds into their hideouts. Otherwise at this time of the year when the winter breeze is cuddling in and the morning sun kisses warmly the birds are in a good mood. They’d chirp around the trees basking in the glorious light which makes them an easy spot and great posers for the camera.
Clockwise: Cattle Egret in flight, Rose ringed Parakeet, Kingfisher & Common Hawk Cuckoo |
- Scarlet Minivet Pair
- Shrike
- Common Hawk Cuckoo
- Rose Ringed Parakeet
- Chestnut Shouldered Petronia
- Cattle Egrets
- Magpie Robin
- Tailor Bird
- Some Warblers
- Thick Billed Flower pecker
- Purple-rumped Sunbird
- Black Bird
- Greater Coucal
- Kingfisher
We actually did capture few them but we accidentally messed up with the camera settings and kept rolling in low resolution. We did not realise the mistake till we checked the snaps on our laptop.
The low light and low resolution settings of our telescopic lense did not yield the desirable high quality images. Duhh! I know. thus the plan to capture great pics also failed but we spotted more than ten birds even in a unfavourable climate. So, again we were happy.
And then we were really ecstatic when we had unexpected visitor from the North of India. The Red-Throated Flycatcher. Hubby had spotted this guy on day one but the rains did not give us a good look. It is a passage migrant bird who migrates to the south of India but takes a pit stop somewhere in the west like Maharashtra. Almost the size of a common sparrow, this bird chirps very sweetly but on a very high volume. One who understands bird anatomy or is a keen bird watcher (like Hubby) can determine if it is his or hers first migration to south.
Hope you have a good weekend ahead, like the way you have planned but just incase things don’t go according to “the plan” trust me you still do end up in beautiful memories, you just need to be an opportunist with the right attitude.