There is lot of different between drongo and bee eaters. Drongos cant make drastic acrobatics in air like bee eater. So they save energy, one perfect strike is better than multiple strikes and missing most of them :) Pankaj
On Dec 31, 12:37 pm, Madhuri Raut <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
