coppersmith barbet

Image cropped, re-sized, levels adjusted and minimally sharpened. Thank you for your kind appreciation of my previous posts.

Coppersmith Barbet. Thank you for your kind appreciation of my previous posts. Image cropped, re-sized, levels adjusted and minimally sharpened.

Thank you for your kind appreciation of my previous posts. Image cropped, re-sized, levels adjusted and minimally sharpened.

These three came together at about 5:00 pm on October 9, 2020. The barbet is a regular at the tree, the oriole on occasion and the bulbul a first-timer.

These two were enjoying basking in the sunshine together, with no worries of Covid.

I liked this photo because it shows how the colours of the coppersmith match those of the trees' leaves.

Terrible light

This coppersmith was at the banyan tree testing all the fruits. However, it was not taking a bite. Clearly they know when the fruits are ready to eat. A couple of days later, they were gorging on the fuits. As you can see, it was warm day and the barbet was keeping its bill open the whole time.

Out of my bedroom window this morning I could see a movement on the stump of a dead tree, a Coppersmith Barbet extracting breakfast.

Coppersmith Barbet, calling.

Found at Naguvanahalli, near Mysuru, Karnataka, India

Quite a close shot but difficult lighting with strong sun shining through the leaves!

This image was taken around the Chitwan area of Nepal. Todays cameras capture almost everything.

It was perched in the shade of a neighbor's tree.

The coppersmith barbet, crimson-breasted barbet or coppersmith (Megalaima haemacephala), is a bird with crimson forehead and throat which is best known for its metronomic call that has been likened to a coppersmith striking metal with a hammer. It is a resident found in the Indian subcontinent...

Hi folks, I will be out of station to fetch up my mom. So, I will not be posting for a few days.

This picture was taken at the Rabindra Sarobar Lake in Kolkata, India. Was fortunate to find the Barbet at the same spot for quite some time and caught the beautifully colored bird in different moods.

Heard some wood pecking sound and thought it was a wood pecker. Instead, I found this Coppersmith Babet toiling away at the bark.

She was perched atop a tall tree. Shot from a long distance and cropped.