Nature's hovercraft ...
Black-winged Kite
... Behavior
Very neat looking
... lovely little
Raptor ...
Nearly always see
them ... during
birding through
the open country
around Delhi ...
Soft, diffuse, post-sunset
light has ... subdued
detail ... but has made
the bird
look more graceful ...
Still, the most attractive
part of the bird is
the way it hovers
mid-air ... to locate
the prey ...
... a truly captivating
display ...
And one can watch it
in a video-clip ... that
I was lucky to have
captured in 2013 ... but
was lying in the
archive unused ...
I uploaded it
today ...
Link :
http://www.birdforum.tv/members/action/viewvideo/6553/Black_winged_Kite___Hovering/
... will be traveling through
the countryside over
next 2-3 days ... with
un-likely connectivity ...
before Saturday ...
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Elanus caeruleus
Ssp. vociferus
Dist. Gurgaon ; Haryana
India
10.01.2013
