Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher Male & Female….
Chiplun, Nandus Place, Maharashtra,
June 2016, Nest is in the making in this image,
This is an very hard working pair …. Mostly all the digging done by Male. female use to seat on the near parch and observe the progress of the nest in between she go inside and have look and return to parch ….
the male remove rocks,three roots,worms from the nest and bring to the parch or drop near the site….. we observe this behaviour for a day… After that we never seen them toughter.
Amazing colours on the birds. And, I love that both birds are looking in the same direction with pretty good HA's. The perch looks good as does the BG. Is this a 'natural' perch, or did you set it up, the reason I am asking is the position of the leaves. Love the image, well done Ritesh
Ritesh,
This is truly a stunning image, congratulations! The quality is terrific, the pose and Head angles are perfect, and you have done a wonderful job getting them as sharp and detailed without visible noise. I really like the male with the mud on his beak, and your explanation of their nest building behaviors. This is a super job, and i enjoyed staring at these jewels!
Very nice Image Ritesh. One of your better frames of this species, and I know you have many. The poses, the colors, the BG and the perch all look awesome and you have some nice feather detail too. I like the pink on the males tail also. Well done
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Lovely image, Ritesh. Both birds with just about perfect head angles, nice perch, complimenting palette background and birds, as David wrote... one of your best. Thank you for sharing.
Joe Przybyla
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Just an unbelievable frame Ritesh. Having a double dose of two of these beauties in the frame is just unbelievable. I also agree with David and Joe and think this is the best of yours I have seen so far - very nice work.
Amazing colours on the birds. And, I love that both birds are looking in the same direction with pretty good HA's. The perch looks good as does the BG. Is this a 'natural' perch, or did you set it up, the reason I am asking is the position of the leaves. Love the image, well done Ritesh
Will
Hello William ..... Thanks for appreciation of my work ..... Yes the Perch is natural and it is there favourite perch of this pair .... But there is one thing we tied this branch to near by tree because this branch move too much while its little bit windy at this spot. To fix it we tied it up with near by tree to get hold of good focus, other wise all is natural.....
Beautiful image Rites! Getting two of the beauties together is great. I like the muddy beak, sharpness, HA's and composition. Would love to see these birds one day.
Beautiful image Rites! Getting two of the beauties together is great. I like the muddy beak, sharpness, HA's and composition. Would love to see these birds one day.
Thanks Jim ..... Hope you will see this birds in person. The season for these bird here in india is from May to August. If you want to plan or by chance coming to india. I will love to show you these beautiful birds....
A Rainbow Pair….
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