Green Beeeaters
The green bee-eaters are seen all along the river sides, grasslands.
This is a common bird around Pune. The bird eats insects. The image of this bird was taken by me while it was enjoying dragon fly.
The birds fly irratically, this bird is known as veda raaghu in marathi, due its crazy hunting of the insects. In early moring in winter
these birds sit together close. These birds were seen on the other side of the river.
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Wagtail Birds
If one visits Kavdi in winter, sometimes you may not see many large water birds. Larger water birds keep changing
their stay location depending on the water level, their safety and food availability. However I have seen that the
entertaining Wagtails are always present in the winter. These birds are busy in the marsh around the river in search of small worms and
insects. They keep waging their tails and do not stay at one location for long. However they walk in search of food and fly away
only if threatened. Such one yellow wagtail was photographed by me early in the morning with its reflection in water. The image was taken
early in the morning in low light and at low water temperature. This ensured good reflection of the bird in water. The other image of yellow wagtail
was taken so that I could get eye level shot. I took this image by lyeing down on the rock. Both these images were taken on the other bank of the river.
I took the image of White browed wagtail, at the eye level, while the bird was singing. This bird is always seen in pair. They sing and wag the tail.
I have also enclosed the Histogram for this image.
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Close Encounter with Wire Tailed Swallow
Wire tailed swallows are the birds, which are rearly seen sitting. These birds are all the time flying in the air
looking for insects on the water surface. This type of birds are seen relaxing on the stone wall of Kavdi quite often.
Once I got opertunity to take image of this bird from the diastance of 2 meters. The colors of this bird are very nice.
Often they are seen in pair at Kavdi.
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The Kingfishers
Small kingfishers are very fresh little birds. I have taken hundreds of images of small kingfisher. I still enjoy taking pictures
of this bird. I like the relentless fishing struggle of this bird. It is one of my favourites. At kavdi one can see three types of kingfishers.
Small, White bellied Kingfisher and Pied kingfisher.
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Ibis Birds
Plenty of Ibis birds arrive at Kavdi. They are mainly of three four types. Black, White, Red capped black ibis and Glossy ibis. The birds wonder all
along the marsh around the banks of river. The birds are very busy insearch of food. Out of Ibis images taken by me here, flying red capped ibis is
my favourite images of flying birds.
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Stilts, River Terns and Sandpipers
The stilts are group birds. They are very elegant tall legged birds. Flight of these birds is elegant. The river terns are also seen
in plenty at Kavdi. These birds keep wide open mouth while taking sunbath. They try to catch fish and insects in the flight from the surface of water.
Flight of these birds is also elegant. The plovers keep waging their tail. They wad in the marsh along the banks.
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Egrets, Herons and Cormorants
Egrets are bit difficult as far exposure is concerned. Some funny poses of these birds can be seen in the images here. In first image some
kind of romance flight dance can be seen. In other image the birds are can be seen in post mating pose. On one Thursday, I found this little cormorant relaxing o
on the other side of the river. I crawled and managed to reach at 2 meters from the bird in the end. The bird happily gave me poses so that I could take
images for about 5 minutes.
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