red vented bulbul

becoming more common this year only, before i use to see it in one area in Jeddah, now its here in my garden. as handsome as they are, but they are still introduced, our local bulbuls doing there best to defend there area, but for how long. hope you like it.

Shot through the gill while the was perched in the shade of a tree close to my house.

A pair of sparrows and a red vented bulbul beating the heat with a splash !

Name:-Red Vented Bulbul Place:-Ambernath, Maharashtra.. Date:-13-11-2012 time:-8.59

a pair of the bird perched nicely

Red vented bulbul is a member of bulbul family of passerine bird found in tropical southern Asia, is included in the "list of world's 100 worst invasive alien species".... F-stop--f/5.3 Shutter spd- 1/60sec ISO-800 Manual Exposure with Spot Metering.....

And if only you could hear his sweet babbling song - delightful!

Curious Red Vented Bulbul in my front yard in Doha, Qatar

Lookout!

A Red Vented Bulbul perched on Parthenium weed. Parthenium hysterophorus is also known as Congress Grass and is quite noxious a weed. It was allegedly introduced in India in the 1950s through wheat shipments as a part of aid from USA. A number of allergic diseases are attributed to Parthenium...

A Red Vented Bulbul asking me the question...

"The leaves never know/ which leaf / will be first to fall./ Does the wind know?" ~ Soseki A haiku shared by a fellow birder in kolkata on seeing this image. A Red Vented Bulbul on a Bauhinia Tree- one magical spring morning.

red vented bulbuls

Although we have these in HK as well , it was nice to see around on this trip. Another hotel grounds image. The flowering shrubs attracted hundreds of birds of over 30 species that I saw in two days. Neil.

Redvented bulbul feeding