All photographs © Keith Rawling
This series of photographs were taken around Mysore, Southern India in the first two weeks of February 2012.
Purple Rumped Sunbird - Female
Purple Rumped Sunbird - Female
Around Mysore there are three major nesting sites for the Spot Billed Pelican - shared with the Painted Stork, Spoonbill and Night Herons among others.
Above: - a Pelican taking a fish from the surface - on the wing. Right - Pelicans may look awkward in the air but as I have witnessed they are just as adept in the air as many eagles.
Open Billed Stork on nest with young
Intermediate Egret in Breeding colours
Pair of breeding Night Herons
White Throated Kingfisher
Chestnut-Headed Bee-Eater with a bee
Chestnut-Headed Bee-Eaters
Chestnut-Headed Bee-Eater
Above - Spotted Dove.
Right - Asian Koel - female and male.
Far Right - Indian Grey Hornbill, Male and female
Thick Billed FlowerPecker
Greater Flameback - Female
Greater Racket Tailed Drongo
Photo note: Normally when photographing birds in India, a 300mm lens will cope with most situations.
In this part of India, all the interesting birds are at treetop level. Example above is the full frame at 300mm of the Malabar Parakeet featured at the top of the page. I suggest you may need 500mm or more and a couple of converters to do a proper job.
Brahminy Kite attacking a Spoonbill
Brahminy Kite attacking a Darter
Greater Racket Tailed Drongo trying to catch a flower he has just dropped
To speed up the loading of these pages I've deliberately reduced the sizes of these images. The quality of the photographs can be seen on the right which shows a part of the spoonbill picture - actual size.
Some of the photos shown have been enlarged from quite small images where I thought the rarity of the subject would be of interest.Therefore check with me if you want any of these images as to the suitability for your purpose.
Dusky Warbler
For more information about photo equipment and locations contact: keith.rawling@btconnect.com
If you would like a travel package to these photo locations Book a ticket to Bangalore then contact Farhan Ahmed at Seagull Travel c/o The Green Hotel, Mysore, India and he will do the rest. seagull_airtravels@yahoo.co.in
Greater Racket Tailed Drongo
Purple Rumped Sunbird - Female
Purple Rumped Sunbird nesting
To add to the degree of difficulty, as I have hinted on other pages, natural camouflage works really well.
There is a White Cheeked Barbet in the middle of this picture.....
A bright Green Parrot in this one...
A three foot Cougal in this one......
A female Koel in this one..
Dusky Warbler
Dusky Warbler
Red Whiskered Bulbul eating berries
