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Rufous Hummingbird!!! Continuing rarity in Franklin County, PA, USA. For more pictures, see https://ebird.org/checklist/S78973401

... and this last of the three images shows a bit of behavior ... ... the bird is holding a grass-seed in its bill ... ... it was feeding on close to that ' bush ' when we walked into the area startling it ... making it fly-off immediately ... I think it will be fitting to say that...

Sharing two more images of this rarity here ... as I mentioned in the morning ... ... in different poses Alternative name of this bird is Rufous-winged Bushlark ... and I think this aspect is well captured here ... _____ Bengal Bushlark ( Mirafra assamica ) Dist. Pilibhit Uttar...

Greater Flameback There are ten images in the database ... Two of them are Black-rumped Flameback images (one by Arindam Mitra and the other by Somduttprasad ) ... and may be moved to that folder ... So, that makes this 9th overall ... and only second real Greater Flameback after...

A Rarity ... Here is a Forum rarity from Himalayas ... Only 7th image in the Gallery ... last one posted by me in 2012 ... I'm uploading two videos of the same individual ... where we could record the call as well ... ... first at the BF-Tv Subspecies lineatum ( Nominate ) ______ The...

Another image of this extreme local rarity ... ... to highlight the light colored lower mandible ... ... and also the very vocal nature of the bird ... much more often heard than seen ... One can experience it in the video I have uploaded on BF-tv ... It is our good luck only that we...

Another image of this big rarity at the BF ... ... taken more recently ( Nov. 2014 ) This was captured during our Short-eared Owl search ... when a group of four of these flew across the path we were driving along ... only one sat on a reed-stalk ... very briefly to give just two...

Another big rarity ... ... another un-shared image from Archive ... captured in feb. 2011 ... Ony two images in the BF Database ( ... out of three there, one is posted twice ... ) Last one posted in Nov. 2011 ... First of a pair in the Database ... ... that was foraging amidst tall reed...

The Fig Tree - 4 Another image taken three seconds after FT-3 shows dorsal aspect nape, mantle, rump and tail colors and small white on tips of tail feathers ... Though, sexes look alike in field ... this individual has more streaking as well as colors on upper side ... when compared...

Fig Tree - 3 Bird has turned just a little in this frame revealing the breast markings nicely ... Thick-billed Flowerpecker Dicaeum agile agile Karad City Dist. Satara Maharashtra India 25.12.2010 09.58.14 am

The Fig Tree - 2 The Fig Tree - 2/3/4 are three successive frames three seconds apart ( Nos. 2277/2278/2279 ) ... together they nicely show all plumage and eye detail ... Eye color is quite clear in this image ... Dicaeum agile agile Karad City Dist. Satara Maharashtra India...

Dudhwa National Park Drongo - 6 Here's the last image of this mini-series ... This one was caught in a patch of Sun, luckily ... on that predominantly misty day ... One of the racquets got entangled in the branch and is seen here ... Another BF-rarity from Indian Sub-continent ...

Keoladeo Bharatpur Jamboree - 27 A Photo-lifer ... ... if I could say so ... Not a lifer ... but it was the first occasion when I could take few shots of this elusive bird ... First post of this bird in BF-Gallery since Aug. 2011 Another image that was clicked in the closing minutes...

This little one blended so well with the surroundings and foraging so swiftly that it was tough to focus properly. This bird is generally found in parts of Western and Central India but is a rarity in these parts. I believe I was lucky to find him. Only three uploads in BF opus so far...

Pilibhit Tiger Reserve This image shows the second idividual ... Falcated duck ( Anas falcata ) ... that was present in the congregation of thousands of other ducks and water birds ... There must have been females too, around ... as these ducks usually migrate in pairs ... ...

Here's another image of this rarity ... ... this individual, too was feeding on seeds in the same reed clump along with a male SS and some Strawberry Finches ... There was a very strong chilly breeze ... and the stalks were swaying like mad ... nearly making it impossible to take a...

A Rarity ... First image of a female of this species in the BF-Gallery ... There are two images of male ... first posted in Dec 2006 and the second in May 2010 ... ID points to distinguish it from House Sparrow (F) ... * Much darker overall * Distinct whitish buff super-cilium *...

Keoladeo Bharatpur Jamboree - 10 This is second image of the same bird ... I posted earlier ... Not much for its photographic beauty ... but, for it being a Forum-rarity ... ... it shows the bird in another view ... ... almost at 180 deg to that in the first image ... ___________________...

Life : A Mega Rarity ______________ A rare combo ... The image shows two very infrequently posted birds ... on the Bird Forum ... 1. Brown-fronted WP ... ... Dendrocopos auriceps ( ... 5 images in our database > 4 of these posted by me ... ) and ... 2. Bar-tailed Treecreeper ...

And here's the Lady Scaly-bellied WP ... ... with her beautiful black Crown ... In a striking super-model pose ... ... making the 7th image in the BF-Gallery ... ... since its inception ... The pair was foraging on the ground ... at a hill-slope ... though initially I thought...

A Forum rarity ... There are only five images of this bird ... ... in the BF-Gallery ... Last of these five was posted by me in Nov.-2011 ... three years ago ... This is a male with lovely red crown ... Female has an entirely black crown ... ... that I will be posting next ... We...

A rescue act ... __________ Another rarity rescued from the Archival-dungeon ... only 8th image in the BF-Gallery ... and only 3rd since Oct. 2011 ... ... and four out of previous 7 entries are actually from Sri Lanka ... that was considered a sub-species earlier ... now declared a...

Lapland Longspur at Mert Lake, Igneada on 1 February 2014 - 3rd record for Turkey.

Himalayan Wonders ... ...Lost and Found While searching for a post-worthy image of Great Tit ( ... that has since become Cinereous Tit Himalayas-83 a bird that we see often during our Himalayan trips ... but seldom click ... ) ... I bumped into this rare gem lying in one of the...

Waterhole Wonders - 17 Green-backed Tit Parus monticolus - ... Sub-species - monticolus This subspecies is found in the Western Himalayas ... With only 9 images in the Forum database and last on posted in March-2013 ... this bird, too, is rather an uncommon Gallery-visitor ... Almost...