[Leica] Birds

[jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)]

Hi Jayanand,

It looks like you found the mother lode for birding.  These are great 
images of varieties that I have never seen before, although we have a 
woodpecker that closely resembles yours.

There's no way I can pick a favorite.  They are all great!

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 9/22/2016 12:25 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
> The Pantanal trip turned out to primarily being a birding trip, much to my
> surprise. I was expecting something like Africa or India, but the paucity
> of mammals meant that life manifested itself in an explosion of birds of
> all shapes, sizes and appetites, who could exploit the forest canopy, and
> the multitude of insects.
>
> To start with, a few on the River Cuiaba, our regular beat: We found this
> on a sandbank:
>
> Chestnut-bellied Guan:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Pantanal/untitled-20160814-6104.jpg.html
>
> One of our boatmen, Berto, was an expert at manouvering the boat close to
> small birds without disturbing them, including these two tiny kingfishers:
>
> Green Kingfisher:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Pantanal/untitled-20160816-7532.jpg.html
>
> Amazon Kingfisher:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Pantanal/untitled-20160817-10351.jpg.html
>
> All the hotels and lodges we stayed in had trees and vegetation planted
> specifically to attract birds into the property, and had strung out feeders
> to encourage them down. The rest of the photographs here were taken on the
> grounds of one or the other of the hostelries we stayed in.
>
> Ahinga:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Pantanal/untitled-20160813-5015.jpg.html
>
> Guira Cuckoo:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Pantanal/untitled-20160813-5274.jpg.html
>
> Two of the Blue-fronted Parrot:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Pantanal/Pantanal-20160819-15600.jpg.html
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Pantanal/untitled-20160819-14477.jpg.html
>
> The Bare-faced Curassow is a curiosity in the avian world, as it is the
> female which is colourful, and the male that is drab!
>
> Male:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Pantanal/untitled-20160820-15991.jpg.html
>
> Female:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Pantanal/Pantanal-20160820-16418.jpg.html
>
> It took me an hour of patiently inching forward, early one morning,
> starting just before sunrise, to get close to this suspicious and jumpy
> Crimson-crested Woodpecker:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Pantanal/Pantanal-20160813-4389.jpg.html
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Pantanal/Pantanal-20160813-4422.jpg.html
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Pantanal/Pantanal-20160813-4448.jpg.html
>
> This Black Vulture was hanging around as well:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Pantanal/untitled-20160814-5596.jpg.html
>
> Some smaller birds at the feeders:
>
> Yellow-billed Cardinal:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Pantanal/untitled-20160820-15793.jpg.html
>
> Grey-fronted Dove:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Pantanal/untitled-20160820-16220.jpg.html
>
> Great Kiskadee:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Pantanal/Pantanal-20160820-16108.jpg.html
>
> Finally, the startling looking, silver beaked, blue eyed, black and yellow
> bodied passerine bird called the Yellow-rumped Cacique:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Pantanal/untitled-20160820-16239.jpg.html
>
> Please see LARGE
>
> Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome.
>
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
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