Beautiful capture Satish ji the drongo with the forked tail and lovely yellow colored Golden oriole. Yes Ushadi I too have seen drongos usually perching on wires . What is fascinating is that it sits still for quite a long time as opposed to the restless bee eater
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Ushadi micromini <[email protected] > wrote: > I was wondering why did the flowers in Satish's third picture look so > much like a protea... until l read his write up carefully... > > The tree is from Proteaceae.... > Thanks Satish... we dont have it in Bengal... > > Usha di > ====== > > On Dec 30, 9:00 pm, Satish Phadke <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is a typical behaviour of the bee eater and Drongo too. They perch > at > > one favourable spot on a height from where it is easy to spot flying > > insects. They catch them in flight and go back to same perch spot and eat > > the insect merrily waiting again to catch another one. > > I stay on 5 th floor in Kothrud area of Pune. Same is the scene here. The > > Drongo is being observed for last month or so. Bee eaters for last some > > months. Now is the season of local migratory bird Golden Oriole. Last two > > days it has started vising our kitchen window. It will be visiting the > > flowering Silver oak tree for coming 3-4 months every morning and often > > throughout the day. > > Attaching some photos of the *Silver oak tree* from earlier years. > > *Grevillea robusta* from Family : Proteaceae > > > > On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Madhuri Raut <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Pune 30 Dec 2011 > > > Today evening I could spot so many birds visiting the False Ashoka > tree . > > > What was fascinating was that the same spot of the top of the tree was > > > visited by green bea eaters,purple sun birds and bulbuls in a span of > 20 > > > minutes.The green bea eaters are extremely restless birds and were > making > > > acrobatics in the air. > > > -- > > > Regards > > > Dr.Bhagyashri Ranade > > > > -- > > Dr Satish Phadke > > > > oriole4672s.jpg > > 184KViewDownload > > > > oriole4289e.jpg > > 289KViewDownload > > > > oriole4414s.jpg > > 197KViewDownload > -- Regards Dr.Bhagyashri Ranade
