Guests of Lock down

Before Lock down, I was lucky to come back to my own village and focus fully on the bio diversity of my locality, better to say, of my garden, backyard, water bodies around my house and small bamboo forests surrounded by these water bodies. During more than two and half month, I was fortunate enough to locate and observe the movements, behavior and a wide variety of sounds of those new guests as well as the resident birds. Some winged guests who are irregular visitors or probably rare visitors in this area. Some of them include: Jacobin Cuckoo, Lesser Whistling Duck, Booted Warbler, Blythe's Reed Warbler, Rufous Woodpecker, Pale-billed Flower-pecker, Blue-Capped Rock Thrush etc. 

Planet of colorful feathers

Since I was born and spent first 20 years of my life in a countryside, I'm privileged to observe the diverse movements, behavior, struggle and joy of my ever sol-mate neighbors, i.e. the colorful feathers-- birds. When I started focusing my lens on nature close-ups, immediately, I thought of birds as one of  my favorite moving subjects. Since then, I visited many lesser known localities, bird sanctuaries in my country to see their life. But, my starting point was my native place obviously.  Here are some glimpses from my native place- Gurap, a small village with enough greenery and habitats for the winged species.

Oriental-Magpie Robin

White-Breasted Water-hen

Brown Shrike (left). House Sparrow (right)

Purple Sunbird (female)