Satish ji, Beautiful pictures of the Golden Oriole. I too had photographed it on the Mango tree in our Nasik home garden from a distance. But your pictures are really nice. Regards, Aarti
On Dec 30, 8:00 pm, Satish Phadke <drsmpha...@gmail.com> 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 <itii...@gmail.com> 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
