Out birding: First time spotted an Oriental white eye!

Raj_55555 · Jul 6, 2015

I knew I'd be busy for a while, and away from photography stuff for a month or two so I went all guns blazing and spent 6 hours trying to find this bird(Oriental white-eye) that I've always wanted to photograph and was awarded with a bonus with the Green bee eater and the blue tailed bea eater. This was the first time I've ever seen these two birds, and I had to go pretty deep into the national park to find them. Of course my 70-300 was too short for them, so I had to use my SX50 for the tiny beauties; but I'll take what I get till I can buy a 600mm :345:

.. I've thrown in a few bonuses from the D7K to even things out

#1. Male Indian Peafowl

Male Indian Peafowl by Raj Dasgupta, on Flickr

#2. The laughing Buddha

Laughing Buddha by Raj Dasgupta, on Flickr

#3. Angry Cocktiel

Cocktiel by Raj Dasgupta, on Flickr

#4. Zebra Finch

Australian Zebra Finch by Raj Dasgupta, on Flickr

#5. White Zebra Finch

White Zebra Finch by Raj Dasgupta, on Flickr

And now the real fun begins :1219:

(sorry for the poor quality):

#6. Oriental White Eye doing a spiderman

#7. Oriental White Eye

#8. A Close Up

#9. Green Bee Eater

#10. Green Bee Eater

#11. Blue tailed Bee Eater

jkzo · Jul 6, 2015

Nice set Raj.... I like #4....

baturn · Jul 6, 2015

Great set, Raj. Much appreciated, as I have never seen most of them.

klaesser · Jul 6, 2015

Nice set of pics.

The only thing I spot when out birding is sparrows

WesternGuy · Jul 6, 2015

Very nice set of images. I always find it interesting to see the variety of birds that abound in other parts of the world.

WesternGuy

pjaye · Jul 6, 2015

Beautiful Raj. #6 is awesome.

Radical · Jul 6, 2015

very cool looking birds.

DarkShadow · Jul 6, 2015

Great set all of them.

jimmerjamma · Jul 6, 2015

Great photos raj! You were greatly rewarded by your persistence to find these birds! I can only imagine how fast you started taking photos once you saw the oriental white eyes! I really like the white ring around their eye. Are their whole eyelids white as well? It's fascinating how they hang from the branch like that.

Woodsman · Jul 6, 2015

Very nice indeed. #2 is my favorite

BrickHouse · Jul 6, 2015

Nice set! Love the peacock!

Donde · Jul 6, 2015

Well done and I like that Oriental White Eye. Was inspired to look them up and wow there are eleven subspecies.

Raj_55555 · Jul 7, 2015

jkzo said:
Nice set Raj.... I like #4....

Thanks jkzo! What's your real name btw? I was always curious

baturn said:
Great set, Raj. Much appreciated, as I have never seen most of them.

Thanks Brian!

klaesser said:
Nice set of pics.

The only thing I spot when out birding is sparrows

Thanks Klaesser, I had to go pretty deep in the jungles before they honoured my wish!

WesternGuy said:
Very nice set of images. I always find it interesting to see the variety of birds that abound in other parts of the world.

WesternGuy

Thanks Westernguy!

symplybarb said:
Beautiful Raj. #6 is awesome.

Thanks Barb! That's my fav too, these birds are surprisingly agile!

Raj_55555 · Jul 7, 2015

Radical said:
very cool looking birds.

Yes they are very unique!

DarkShadow said:
Great set all of them.

Thanks Dave!

jimmerjamma said:
Great photos raj! You were greatly rewarded by your persistence to find these birds! I can only imagine how fast you started taking photos once you saw the oriental white eyes! I really like the white ring around their eye. Are their whole eyelids white as well? It's fascinating how they hang from the branch like that.

Thanks Jimmerjamma, actually even though I spent hours tracking the white-eyes they stayed around me for almost 15 minutes, so I had time to take proper shots. The bee eaters though, they run if they spot you from a mile away! No, their eyelids are black, but the white around the eyes is really cool!