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Here are some of my wildlife pictures
Shot in Srilanka with a 300mm telephoto, this bird could'nt fly so happily posed away.
Shot in Chobe river Botswana. This roller is the national bird of Kenya and Botswana
This sun bird was enjoying the sun, precariously balanced on a blade. Shot this in Sikkim in Peling.
This was a bird feeding upside down. Shot in the mangroves of Bhitarkanika Odisha, I found this bird near our tent.
Extremely difficult to shoot black birds, but the sun lit up these blue black birds in Okawango Botswana.
These penguins in the rain was shot in Cape Town South Africa. Normally found in snowy landscapes, this was shot on verdant grass while rain fell
Coomon bird in India, the female is very nicely marked. Shot this bird from my farm house verandah in Kabini.
Another small bird shot from my verandah in Kabini. This bird is as small as the Tuar dal flowers.
I just got up in my tent in camsite Botswana and found this guy staring at me. Barely managed to focus in the dim light and shoot with 600 mm without a stand
Caught this Hawk searching for prey in the dessert in Namibia. It was easy to shoot this in a lone tree without branches.
A large bird which is found in the Savannas. I chanced one early morning this bird in a safari in Moremi on Okawango delta.
I was on a boat cruise in Chobe river where I found these vultures on a small island cleaning up a buffallo carcass.
This stork was found on the boat cruise in the afternoon on the Chobe river. Harsh sunlight beat down highlighting the features.
A paradise for storks on the Chobe river found this grey stork standing crossed facing away from each other and covering their backs.
A nightmare shot of white in the afternoon sun. Under exposed the shot and lifted details in Photoshop.
We trekked 12 kms in Namdhapa reserve in Arunachal bordering burma to get these hornbills who visit this tree everyday.
In Nameri national forest in northern Arunachal Pradesh I managed to get these hornbills in flight .
A frequent visitor in my farm in Kabini shot these hornbills against my coconut tree from my house
This is a very common hornbill like bird found in Africa. I shot this in a lodge in South Africa.
A very common hornbill in the western ghats . I shot this in Wyanad. This lives in herds and is a frequent visitor in my farm in Kabini.
This is an African Ground Hornbill which we found in the savannas of Murchinson's fall, the source of the Nile in Uganda.
Common in Africa, I found this Marabu stork in Bhadra Karnataka. These storks were not as big as the Marabu in Africa.
This stork I shot in Queen Elizabeth park Kazinga channel in Uganda was as big as the bent woman washing clothes.
A very unique hornbill i found in Uganda in the Bogadi swamps. Uganda has over 300 birds and very unique to that country.
Shot this bird who fished for an hour in the manngrove swamps of Bhitarkanika Odisha. The fish was bigger than the beak, but the bird swallowed it one go.
Jungle lodges Bhadra is teeming with Terns in the small islands. The birds are constantly fishing and feeding the young.
Got this bird with open beak on the banks of the Nile at it's origin in Murchinson's falls Uganda.
It is a rare sighting, i found this bird perched around a pond in Kaziranga. Fortunately my stay area was close to get my 600 heavy lens and manfrotto strand and got a sharp picture.
Like the blue eared, this is a small rare kingfisher I found in Sri Lanka. Extremely colorful and evading, barely focussed to get this shot.
Got this bird with open beak on the banks of the Nile at it's origin in Murchinson's falls Uganda.
Uganda's national bird pair were at a mating dance dance ritual when I photographed this. Got the whole mating dance on video.
Another unique bird of Uganda is the hammerhead which has a head shaped like a hammer.
This pair were fishing on the Nile in Uganda. The male wishes and the female watches. Or...was it the other way around.
Another unique bird to Uganda found in it's swamps is the Turraco which is a riot of colors.
Found all over africa, got this bright yellow weaver on the Papyrus reeds of the Nile in Uganda .
Mistaken for weavers this yellow fronted canary has dirrent markings. Found this also in Uganda the best place for birding.
The normal and copper smith barbets cannot resist the ripe guavas and papayas in my Kabini house compunt.
Like a hawk, this sparrow hawk also enjoys the guava tree when it cannot get it's usual prey .
My resident Bulbul pair also love the guavas. They wait for the parrots to break then open before feeding.
Out of the three parrots visiting my farm in Kabini, the blue tailed malabar parrot is most common apart from the green parrot.
Very common in the season the trees have mangoes, papaya and guavas in Kabini.
These raid the pods in the jungle tress and corn cobs in the kabini farm.
Out of the three parrots visiting my farm in Kabini, the blue tailed malabar parrot is most common apart from the green parrot.
Very common in the season the trees have mangoes, papaya and guavas in Kabini.
These raid the pods in the jungle tress and corn cobs in the kabini farm.
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