green bee eater

Rest day today but got of the mark with first lifer. to hot for birding though when we eventually got up. Starts tomorrow properly.

A jewel

A recent shot. With the winter setting in, plenty of them around here. Thanks everyone for your good wishes, they mean a lot to me.

A relatively more successful attempt, still it was camouflaged by the green tree bg by the time I captured it. I saw the bird only after I downloaded the picture on my laptop! Settings-Shutter Priority, speed 1/2000th sec, ISO 400 Auto, exposure bias +0.3, focal length 318 mm(35 mm equivalent)

Off again tomorrow for 5 days to Karwar for a holiday & hopefully some birding. Will try to post from my mobile phone if possible.

The green bee-eater (also known as the little green bee-eater) is a small species of bee-eater bird found throughout parts of Africa and Asia. The green bee-eater is one of 26 species of bee-eater, a group of birds that a primarily found throughout Africa and in parts of Asia and the Middle East.

The green bee-eater (sometimes little green bee-eater) is a near passerine bird in the bee-eater family. It is resident but prone to seasonal movements and is found widely distributed across sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal and the Gambia to Ethiopia, the Nile valley, western Arabia and Asia...

We are off on a tour of Kerala(like to call themselves as God's own country). So, I won't be posting till the end of this month.

It was just flapping its wings when I clicked the snap.

The sparrow and green bee eater share a common string for a while

The bee eater on an early morning watch out !

Reproduction (or procreation) is the biological process by which new "offspring" individual organisms are produced from their "parents"........ Reproduction is a fundamental feature of all known life....... each individual organism exists as the result of reproduction.........Irrespective of the...

taken at baikunthapur forest

A lovely pair of Green bee eaters

The green Bee eater at Nagpur Maharashtra India

An interesting fact about the Little Green Bee-eaters has shown they are capable of putting themselves in the place of other animals. They are able to predict whether a predator at a particular location would be capable of spotting their nest entrance. The ability to look from another's point of...

I think this is the a Green Bee Eater. It was sat on my balcony in Abu Dhabi.

Green Bee-eater : Merops orientalis, is a near passerine bird in the bee-eater family. Green Plumage, black bill, 16-18cms in length, a fine black line runs in front of and behind the eye.

I found these interesting couple making love near Al Warsan lake, International City, Dubai.