Showing posts with label birds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label birds. Show all posts

Saturday, July 13, 2013

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Agreed To Disagree....

Indian Stone-curlew or Indian Thick-knee (Burhinus indicus)


Shot using Olympus SP 800 UZ 
Settings: 1/500ƒ/5.6ISO 160  147 mm
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Posted for Camera critters and wild bird Wednesday.  

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Fauna Exotica............

Endemic Yellow-eared Bulbul (Pycnonotus penicillatus)


 

 











Common Bluebottle(Graphium sarpedon)




 



Red-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus cafer)














                                             Marsh Dancer ( Onychargia atrocyana)






                                                           Acavus Superbus





                                        

                                House Toad (Duttaphrynus melanostictus)

                                         
                                





                                     Black-headed Ibis(Threskiornis melanocephalus)

















                                            Purple Swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio).































Camera Critters

Friday, January 4, 2013

What's In Me Bag?

Purple-faced Leaf Monkey{Endemic}

 






                                 Brown-headed Barbet





                                      House Sparrow



                                ?Juvenile House Toad



                                                     Pink Skimmer







                                              Spotted Dove

Friday, November 2, 2012

Downpours After The Draught....

Many parts of Sri Lanka has just recovered from a very long drought, and it's endless rain, floods, landslides, you name it. None of the disasters around where I live, but bad news keep coming from around. It was quite a shock seeing what Sandy did over there in America, nothing like I've ever seen. I just wish these extreme conditions will cease to be, globally.  

I'm not updating this blog and visiting your blogs as frequently as I used to be, and there are a few reasons for that. I recently found myself spending too much time in front of the computer, and it was not good. I'm trying to improve my photography, going deeper in to exposure compensation, white balance, spot metering and stuff like that. So I spend more time taking my photos and post processing them. This results in me discarding lots of photos, so I don't have that many photos to upload any given week. A recent vermicompost  project  and a bit of gardening takes up time too. I'll probably post about it on my gardening blog soon.

And here are some birds I've been shooting. This one is an Asian Brown Flycatcher.



 Asian Brown Flycatcher (Muscicapa dauurica)






 This one is a Scaly-breasted Munia.

Scaly-breasted Munia or Spotted Munia (Lonchura punctulata)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                




I'm also throwing in a video I made of  a bee goin in to and out of a flower. Check the shiny blue color of the bug.

     


All right, that's all I have for you folks for now, I 'll make a new post as soon as I get around doing it.






Camera Critters

Monday, October 1, 2012

Check These Out......

Alexandrine Parakeet (Psittacula eupatria), male



 Crested Serpent Eagle, (Spilornis cheela)



? Asian Paradise Flucatcher




Saturday, September 1, 2012

Dancing With Bubuls.......

I cant believe  I let my internet usage go over-limit in the first week of   a billing cycle! But I just did that, and there goes my connection speed down. You can hardly do anything online with a speed of 64kbps, hence the one month absence. But I'm back in the game again, so let's see  what I've shot all this time.

We visited my parents at my old place at Panadura on 15th last month, and stayed there for three weeks. There were some pretty tame White-browed Bulbuls that allowed me to get very close to them.


White-browed Bulbul ( Pycnonotus luteolus)














I particularly like this shot of a Scaly-breasted Munia captured on the same day.





This pretty striking caterpillar was on an ornamental that has been there since I was a small kid. Them caterpillars have been  on it ever since I remember too.






Look what I found in a sack of dirt that my father had kept in the shed. I could not identify it, so I uploaded in to Lakdasun forum and awaiting a reply.






That's about it for now, folks, drop by next week end to see if there's anything new. I'll be visiting you too. 


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