Greater Coucle with Eucalyptus leaf....

[Satish Ranadive]

Greater Coucle carry Eucalyptus leaves to the nest and lined the leaves inside the nest in order to keep insects and other infectious insects away from the babies.
This is generally happened in rainy season. This image is just before the take off, hence the shutter Priority.
Basic editing. Cropped for composition.
Eye lighten. NR applied to BG. Darken the dragonfly.
Thanks everybody for your visits to my post .


ISO: 800, 1/3200 @5.6, exposure bias+7 step. Shutter Priority. Pattern metering.
Canon 550D, 100-400 mm.

Thanks for viewing, critiques and comments,
Kind Regards,
Satish.

[Colin Driscoll]

Good behavioral shot Satish and good technically, love those eyes. Interesting adaptive behavior too since Eucalypts were only introduced into India in the mid-1800's. Watch your cut/paste of text as you have left the dragonfly in from your previous post!

[Satish Ranadive]

Thank you Colin for your comments and likes.

Regards,
Satish.