blue whistling thrush

Himalayas - 275 ... Sentinel on duty ... sitting on vantage point ... nearly 8000 ft in Himalayas ... on the edge of the rich forest known to have Leopards and Himalayan Black Bear ... ... overlooking a precipitous drop with resplendent slope reaching a deep valley ... One of my all...

Blue Whistling Thrush - Margalla Hills, Islamabad, Pakistan.

on rocks by a waterfall; this one made a momentary appearance to show off his fantail and was gone. I think it's the ssp crassirostris.

Looking over the shoulder.

You can regularly hear it's high pitch call near streams or gullies, the Blue Whistling Thrush have adapted to most environments in Hong Kong, including urban parks. More Hong Kong birding on: http://matthewkwanbirding.blogspot.hk/

I think I should leave the Tailed Jay Butterfly image for a later day, after all this is a BIRD Forum

This is the rarer of the 2 species of the thrushes seen at the grounds of the Buddhist temple where we were at. This is an adult that was looking for food to feed the sub-adult juvenile. The hues are sensitive to fill-flash that may change them altogether and no flash was used despite the...

Blue Whistling Thrush The delicate layers of bluish hues of this bird are simply amazing. Exposure without fill flash would not have brought the details out. If the flash used was too strong it would be a washout. This is my wife's shot of this bird. 5D + 500mm + 1.4 II ext (1/50s f/6.3...

Another inhabitant of caves, and lime stone cliffs, lucky to have caught it out of his hole.... Thanks

I got carried away and have posted three images of this handsome thrush. I hope you don't mind. This was also at iso 400 so needed a "noiseware" fix. Neil.

This image was digiscoped using the 45x eyepiece which didn't really allow for the whole bird but it gives the impression of the skulking nature of this local thrush. I've been getting familiar with Apple's iPhoto over the last few days . It's very fast , has nice basic,editing features and...

Due to low light levels this last week I resorted to using iso 400 which is a bit noisy on the CP8400 but a pass through Noiseware improves it. Neil.

A common thrush of evergreen forest.

Size: 30.5 to 35 cm, another shy bird that lives amoung lime stone caves, and rocky areas.

This is the local thrush who spends a lot of time chasing off the over-wintering thrushes (Japanese and Grey-Backed ).

This thrush was "whistling" to attract insects.

One of the local thrushes coming down to water yesterday.

I posted a digiscoped closeup of this handsome guy the other day. This was taken with the D2x as he patrolled his territory.

This is a close-up up taken with the Olympus 7070wz on the scope. Using the Swarovski Telescope Eyepiece Adapter behaves like a close-up adapter and reduces the closest focusing distance to about 15 feet. You also lose infinity focus though.

this was one from a series I took in March of this year.

taken in the same area as the previous Magpie Robin.

seen today in the park. he can sometimes look very blue in the right light.