Back In Black..........

Hey folks, it's wonderful to be back blogging again! I'm sorry for the long absence, but I'm back, and with some exiting stuff too.

Last Saturday was a great day in my life, for I was able to bag a really magnificent bird of prey, a Crested Serpent Eagle! He was perched on a power pillar in a rice field nearby, probably looking for some game, and obliged me with these two presentable shots before flying away.

Crested Serpent Eagle (Spilornis cheela spilogaster)

  The same day I captured  a family of Red-wattled Lapwings, two juveniles and their mother, as well as  flock of Scaly-breasted Munias.  

Red-wattled Lapwing (Vanellus indicus)

And here are some more birds from the garden.

Yellow-billed Babbler  (Turdoides affinis)

Oriental Magpie Robin (Copsychus saularis)

I hope you enjoyed my photos and videos, and I'll drop by your blogs too. I will post again on next Friday if capture anything new by then, so stay tuned. Ciao!

Posted for World Bird Wednesday and Camera Critters.

This Week's Birds......

How's the birding  been this week, folks? It's not been too bad for me. My walks to and from work as well as hanging around the birding patch has yielded some nice birds.
                                                                          
                                                                     ROSE-RINGED PARAKEET Psittacula krameri
Well, let's start off with some Rose-ringed Parakeets, they are in full swing now.



























CRESTED SERPENT EAGLE Spilornis cheela
This juvenile Crested Serpent Eagle was a lifer, my fist bird of prey! The photos are nothing to brag about though.

                                                                                                               ASIAN OPENBILL Anastomus oscitans
Rice fields are being planted for the next season, so the fields being prepared attract lots of water birds, who come looking for small critters unearthed by farmers. I only managed to capture this Asian Openbill Stork.

                                                               Oriental Magpie Robin (Copsychus saularis)

This immature Oriental Magpie Robin was catching bugs on the ground by the railroad track.



















ASHY PRINIA Prinia socialis

 An Ashy Prenia and a Jerdon's Bushlark were perched on a power cable running over  a paddy field.

















 
Jerdon's Bushlark (Mirafra affinis)                                                       

                                                                     WHITE-THROATED KINGFISHER Halcyon smyrnensis
This White -throated Kingfisher was by an irrigation canal.




Well,that's about it, lets hope next week will be even better! if you have not linked up your bird posts to Wold Bird Wednesday yet,you must!