Flying angels

Birds or the "feathered bipeds" never fail to amuse me. Since I hear them all the time, I often get tempted to go out and have a look. Here are some of the shots which I got almost two years back in my IISER campus at Haringhata when birding for me was limited to getting clicks ;) More will follow in the next blogs but with some accompanying stories :) 
 
Black Drongo

Flameback Woodpecker


Flameback Woodpecker
Black-hooded Oriole


Black-hooded Oriole


White-throated Kingfisher
Blue-throated Barbet


Blue-throated Barbet
Common Tailorbird



Purple-rumped Sunbird
Purple-rumped Sunbird

Waterhen

Lesser Cormorant

Grey heron

Spotted dove

Spotted owlet


Magpie Robin (female)
Rose-ringed parakeets

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