Blue tail beeeater

 

Blue tail bee eater, cant get more obvious then this, Love the attitude of the bird.

Some birds at BhitarKanika, in Orissa

 

 

Tawny Flanked Prinia

Finch

 

 

FINCH

 

 

Streaked Weaver

 

 

 Tricolored Munia

 

 

Blue tailed Beeater

A trip to Bhitarkanika, in Orissa from Kolkata, a 400 odd km run, do enjoy the birds and flora and fauna 

 

https://youtu.be/hupirnzr41E

 

 

Beeeater with food

 

Bee-eater, blue tail bee-eater having a Bee for breakfast.

The blue-tailed bee-eater (Merops philippinus) is a near passerine bird in the bee-eater family Meropidae. It is widely distributed across South and Southeast Asia where many populations are strongly migratory and seen seasonally in many parts but breeding colonially in small areas across their range, mostly in river valleys, where they nest by tunneling into loamy sand banks. They are seen mostly in open habitats close to water.

 

 

Bird enjoying a meal in slow motion

 

 

 

Crocodile of Bhitar kanika, orissa

 

 

 

 

Quietly lying the crocodile has not eaten in 5 months ever since she had gotten pregnant, they don’t eat but stay quietly after laying the eggs and is looking after the eggs, NO FOOD for the mother, till the kids are hatched 

 

 

Once the kids are 15 days old, the crocodile will leave the kids to fend for themselves and swim off, forgetting it had kids.

 

 

 

 

 

Mynah , Common Mynah

 

The common Mynah, every time the mother visits home, its the same scene an anxious mouth (or 2 or 3) opens expecting a treat, must be causing anxiety to the mom I say! 

 

 

Time to plant rice

Come Monsoon and its time to plant rice the lifeline of Bengal/ bihar, the staple diet, did you know Bihar has the most fertile of land for growing rice, followed by Bengal, No Its not Punjab but Bihar and Bengal that produces more rice per sq foot

 

 

Black Naped Monarch feeding its chics

 

Close up of what we saw of the birds being fed by the parent of Black naped Monarch

 

 

 

Mother and father both work to feed the kids and are a pleasure to watch them caring for there family.