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A Valentine's Day post from Kannamangala

Here’s a Valentine’s Day post from Kannamangala lake. Yes, birds never miss a chance to renew or perhaps find new love. Read on…



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A banyan tree, sky and the lake. A lovely setting…



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A Little Egret congregation invited my attention…



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There’s always one who likes to be a bit away from the crowd and enjoy solitude…



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An Indian Pond Heron…



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A Little grebe…



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A Grey Heron…



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A lone Painted Stork…



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A Grey Hornbill was hidden in the foliage…



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He made love with his partner. Grey Hornbills stay with the same partner all their life…



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An Indian Pond Heron caught my attention. He was looking for unwary fishes from his elevated perch…



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He gets excited on spotting one…



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Aims and attacks like a dart…



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A fish is caught…



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A White-throated Kingfisher…



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A male Purple-rumped Sunbird…



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A Cormorant drying itself…



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A Black-headed Cuckooshrike whistled his long pee-pe-pe-pe-pe-twe-twee song. The mating call is most attractive and I’m sure he will find his partner soon…



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A male Purple Sunbird was seen in his most attractive breeding plumage…



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Cinereous Tits are so quick-flitting birds that you get only two hardly presentable pics from about 50 clicks…



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A pair of brightly colored and strongly scented Cannonball flowers…



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It was a White-browed Wagtail's turn to sing his long and loud mating song with many different notes…



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Great Cormorant is a ‘food lover’. He caught a huge Tilapia fish… 



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A Brahminy kite tries to steal the Tilapia but is a bit late…




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A Little Grebe mother and child (with a yellow bill)...



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Some pen friends…

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A lady Indian Golden Oriole…

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I watched the courting behavior of a Great Cormorant couple…

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Wishing you a happy Valentine’s day, filled with things you love!
  


48 comments:

  1. Your passion into bird photography is truly palpable and intense. Feeding on fishes seem to be a little brutal there

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  2. As always priceless. Good work again.

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  3. Amazing place, Loved all pics, Fantastic

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  4. Thanks for another birdy adventure with you - boy that was a big fish the bird ate.

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  5. Beautiful photos and a lovely Valentine's Day post!

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  6. Beautiful images Shiju, the pictures are the Indian Pond Heron, absolutely stunning.

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  7. WOW! I am stunned!
    Incredible photography, Shiju!
    I especially love the shots of the Great Cormorant with a fish in its mouth.

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  8. The Grey heron and first picture is absolute stunner. I have been trying to capture Indian Grey hornbill, need to find ideal spot for that. Back Home, I find it difficult to snap Malabar pied hornbills due to their shy nature. Sometimes I get lucky, hope that happens with grey hornbill as well

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  9. Incredible photos. That series of the cormorant trying to eat the tilapia is amazing. I remember my first live cormorant a few years ago in New Orleans. Such ancient, unlikely birds.

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  10. What a great series of photos.
    The Purple Sunbird is really super beautiful.
    The cormorant eats a very large fish.
    I enjoyed all the photos.
    Greetings Irma

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  11. Beautiful! The Purple Sunbird is stunning!

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  12. Greetings and Salutations! Enjoyed all these fabulous bird photographs.

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  13. Hello,
    Beautiful photos, as always your posts are a treat to see. I love all the birds, wonderful sightings and captures. The Hornbill is a cool looking bird. Another great outing. Thank you for linking up and sharing your post. Take care, have a great weekend. PS, thank you for leaving me a comment

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  14. Great photos again Shiju. I think all of the rain earlier in your year created lots of photo opps for herons and egrets. Love the Indian Pond Heron and the waay it's caught that tiny fish. And the cormorant with the somewhat larger fish

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  15. I had to show photos to my hubby in this post. We loved the one of the BIG fish being eaten! How amazing!

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  16. Hi Shiju, Wow, what amazing pics of the Great Cormorant enjoying a Tilapia. I wonder if this will cause the bird to reconsider such large bites? 😊 As always, lots of neat photos … a great Valentines post! John

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  17. Fabulous photos! I've never seen a water fowl eat such a large fish. Happy Valentine's Day!

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  18. I like the grebe with its reflection. And wonderful photos of the Indian Pond heron fishing!

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  19. ...your first image of the egrets is magical! Thanks.

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  20. Hello :=)
    Wonderful selection of birds, and topnotch photography. I enjoyed seeing all of them, but what stood out for me today are the Cormorant images. The action shots are fabulous.
    Have a super 14th February Valentine's Day.

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  21. Great collection. The Painted stork is my favourite. Happy Valentines day to you too!

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  22. That breeding plumage on the sunbird is outstanding! Loved seeing the cormorants catch of the day!!
    Hello! Thanks for linking in at IRBB this week.

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  23. Very professional and beautiful photos ~ love the sheep ~

    Wishing you good health, laughter and love in your days ~
    A ShutterBug Explores,
    aka (A Creative Harbor)

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  24. Amazing photos, all absolutely beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

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  25. Fantastic pictures as always. I really like the series of Indian Pond Heron catching its prey.

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  26. Shiju, such love-ly shots and super apt for love day.

    Each avian wonder is stunning and hard to say which one I like the best.

    I wrote about my adventures in Tiger Country, Bandhavgarh and shared some photos of the regal tigress, Tara you may like too:

    https://natashamusing.com/2023/02/tiger-safari-in-bandhavgarh-experiences-in-bandhavgarh-natasha-musing/

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  27. Superb captures all! Loved them!

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  28. ll the images are magnificent. I especially liked the beauty and grase of the egrets and the cormorant engorging on the fish.

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  29. Was the great cormorant actually able to SWALLOW that huge fish and survive to tell the tale? My goodness!
    Thanks for sharing at http://image-in-ing.blogspot.com/2023/02/a-just-bit-more.html

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  30. So many fine photographs! 🙏🏽

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  31. fabulous images. what a variety of birds, I don't think I have seen that many different birds in my life.

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  32. Dear Shiju, I find the texts above your Valentine's Day photos very funny / well chosen. Such great photos again - I fell a little bit in love with the Little Grebe with the beautiful reflection 😍 Okay, that goes well with Valentine...
    The photos where the cormorant devours the tilapia are sensational.
    ALL THE BEST from Austria, Traude

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  33. What stunning photos so clear and colourful always love your close ups

    Have a valentinestastic week 👍

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  34. Thank you for sharing the love Shuji. The Valentine is sweet and as always I love how you show the behaviors of the birds as well as how beautiful they are. (The pen of sheep was a surprise!).

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  35. PS: Shiju, I'm sorry I spelled your name incorrectly above. A slip of my fingers (or my brain maybe!).

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  36. Wow- your bird photos are amazing! We have a lot of birds in our back yard- Northern Flickers, Northern Chickadees, Stellar Jays, Robins, a few Mallards will swim in our seasonal creek, Goldfinches, Bush tits and other wee little birds. Plus a Coopers Hawk, a Redtail Hawk and even a Bald Eagle comes by sometimes. Cheers!

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  37. Wonderful photos! I'm quite amazed the bird was able to swallow that tilapia; the fish seemed nearly as large.

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  38. These shots are amazing, particularly the fish being caught! #wwandpics

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  39. What a LOVING post ...and I loved seeing the colours and shapes and great details in so many of your pics! Thank you for sharing your post for this week’s Wednesdays Words and Pics. The “good news” I mentioned in my intro this week is that we have found & secured a new place to live, where we hoped for, and next week’s post will explain more! Take care, and I hope to see you next week too. Denyse.

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  40. Lovely birds and fun to see the pen friends. Thank you for linking up.

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  41. Thank you for linking up. As always the photos are amazing.....Hope you and family are well...

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  42. YOu did a great job getting the bird with the fish!! (Poor fish! But lucky bird). #NaturesNotes

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