purple sunbird

Purple Sunbird - Male. Thank you for your kind appreciation of my previous posts. Image cropped, re-sized, levels adjusted and minimally sharpened. . had to do some shadow recovery too – it was a heavily overcast day.

Baby Sunbird

As it's announced our Prime Minister, Health Secretary and the Chief Medical Officer are all infected, I thought a colourful image might cheer us up

Obliging and a good job too, as it was the only one seen

a quick dip in a puddle and then back to dry off and check out the nectar situation....

Purple Sunbird, male

In eclipse plumage. First clear close up shot of this bird for me.

several pairs in the hotel garden but not showing in the open, because of the large and not normal numbers of Indian crows and Mynas, both are introduced to the All of Arabia. was really lucky to get this one while visiting a nearby village, and it was in the right side of light to show some of...

Recently I visited Oman for a birdwatching trip. This Purple Sunbird was one of my first new birds in this superb two weeks trip. See my latest stories including daily reports about the trip on my blog here: http://naturemonitoring.com/

Male Purple Sunbird

The Purple Sunbird (Male) (Cinnyris asiaticus) is a small sunbird. Like other sunbirds they feed mainly on nectar, although they will also take insects, especially when feeding young. They have a fast and direct flight and can take nectar by hovering like a hummingbird but often perch at the...

Creek Park is an amazing little park with lots of mini-habitats. This bright blue bird flitted around the flowers.

These birds were the only pair in the Wadi that I could see.

A break from my India shots, here is a couple from my Garden an hour ago !

Here is my handsome little chappie just before he flew off - which you can see him doing in the other image I just uploaded.

Another first for this newbie - over the moon and back to get such a beautiful bird! Thank goodness for zoom lenses, this handsome chap was some distance away. Hope you all like him! :) :)