<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717</id><updated>2011-11-28T05:23:30.824+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Pictures of Birds</title><subtitle type='html'>&lt;b&gt;Pictures of birds taken in South India are posted in this blog.&lt;/b&gt;</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>193</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-2147552313493019962</id><published>2010-08-03T13:24:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2010-08-03T13:25:17.955+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Water Monitor Lizard</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7745120@N04/4767355900/" title="Monitor Lizard (Varanus salvator) by animtreebird, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4096/4767355900_e8b4f5d7df_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Monitor Lizard (Varanus salvator)" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They are excellent swimmers, using the raised fin located on their tails to steer through water.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-2147552313493019962?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/2147552313493019962/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=2147552313493019962' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/2147552313493019962'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/2147552313493019962'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2010/08/water-monitor-lizard.html' title='Water Monitor Lizard'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4096/4767355900_e8b4f5d7df_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-2195097189893276200</id><published>2010-08-03T13:21:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2010-08-03T13:23:21.023+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Yellow-vented bulbul</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7745120@N04/4766595427/" title="Yellow vented bulbul (Pycnonotus goiavier) by animtreebird, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4093/4766595427_60fcc3b4f2_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Yellow vented bulbul (Pycnonotus goiavier)" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Yellow-vented Bulbuls eats berries and small fruits. They also sip nectar, nibble on young shoots, and take some insects.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-2195097189893276200?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/2195097189893276200/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=2195097189893276200' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/2195097189893276200'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/2195097189893276200'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2010/08/yellow-vented-bulbul.html' title='Yellow-vented bulbul'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4093/4766595427_60fcc3b4f2_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-5757344475110573531</id><published>2010-08-03T13:20:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2010-08-03T13:21:48.449+05:30</updated><title type='text'>White crested Laughing Thrush</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7745120@N04/4766595417/" title="White Crested Laughing Thrush (Garrulax leucolophus) by animtreebird, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4120/4766595417_496abfb4a7_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="White Crested Laughing Thrush (Garrulax leucolophus)" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The White-crested Laughingthrush, Garrulax leucolophus is an Old World babbler.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-5757344475110573531?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/5757344475110573531/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=5757344475110573531' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/5757344475110573531'/><link rel='self' 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type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7745120@N04/4766932688/" title="Collared Kingfisher (Todiramphus chloris) by animtreebird, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4117/4766932688_b7bfd26371_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Collared Kingfisher (Todiramphus chloris)" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Small crabs are the favoured food in coastal regions but a wide variety of other animals are eaten including insects, worms, snails, shrimps, frogs, lizards and small fish.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-7665896315099519684?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/7665896315099519684/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=7665896315099519684' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/7665896315099519684'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/7665896315099519684'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2010/08/collared-kingfisher.html' title='Collared Kingfisher'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4117/4766932688_b7bfd26371_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-314259159667263887</id><published>2010-08-02T14:49:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2010-08-02T14:51:14.245+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Javan Mynah</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7745120@N04/4766270413/" title="Javan Mynah (Acridotheres javanicus) by animtreebird, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4076/4766270413_a33432fa4e_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Javan Mynah (Acridotheres javanicus)" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Javan myna can live for upto 8 to 20 years. They eat ants, worms, fruits, human feeds and grains.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-314259159667263887?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/314259159667263887/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=314259159667263887' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/314259159667263887'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/314259159667263887'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2010/08/javan-mynah.html' title='Javan Mynah'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4076/4766270413_a33432fa4e_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-4402688754668695429</id><published>2010-08-02T14:47:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2010-08-02T14:48:48.199+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Olive-backed Sunbird</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7745120@N04/4766270319/" title="Olive-backed sunbird (male) (Cinnyris jugularis) by animtreebird, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4134/4766270319_85e0e69497_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Olive-backed sunbird (male) (Cinnyris jugularis)" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Currently I am in Singapore and will be photographing birds in Singapore and posting them in my photoblog.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-4402688754668695429?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/4402688754668695429/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=4402688754668695429' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/4402688754668695429'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/4402688754668695429'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2010/08/olive-backed-sunbird.html' title='Olive-backed Sunbird'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4134/4766270319_85e0e69497_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-4012991023239516402</id><published>2010-02-01T11:50:00.007+05:30</published><updated>2010-02-01T11:55:58.328+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Animals</title><content type='html'>Animals are in plenty and all anybody needs is a lot of patience and love for them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have noticed that if you spend more time trying to watch animals, they become accustomed to your presence, are more comfortable in your presence, and are also curious. In my experience, all animals can recognize people. Since I have spent a lot of time trying to become friendly with them, this has helped me to take great photos of them in their natural habitat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All these photos have been taken in Chennai. They are copyrighted. Do not use them without my permission.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/S2ZzHqnQTQI/AAAAAAAAAjE/QCL4L2YrvAk/s1600-h/november-dec-2009+267.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 237px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/S2ZzHqnQTQI/AAAAAAAAAjE/QCL4L2YrvAk/s320/november-dec-2009+267.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433156576004295938" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/S2ZzPyzRyHI/AAAAAAAAAjM/MzEF9kpm2nQ/s1600-h/november-dec-2009+320.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/S2ZzPyzRyHI/AAAAAAAAAjM/MzEF9kpm2nQ/s320/november-dec-2009+320.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433156715641161842" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/S2ZzX8XPl8I/AAAAAAAAAjU/bgubKW7eGXc/s1600-h/november-dec-2009+429.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; 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height: 234px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/S2ZzqD3jsUI/AAAAAAAAAjk/jT7zfi8tVUM/s320/november-dec-2009+480.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433157166899114306" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/S2ZzyZQh_4I/AAAAAAAAAjs/jf0O-OMkb0g/s1600-h/november-dec-2009+512.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 225px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/S2ZzyZQh_4I/AAAAAAAAAjs/jf0O-OMkb0g/s320/november-dec-2009+512.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433157310079958914" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/S2Zz5ch7o7I/AAAAAAAAAj0/Qmluw2ucZ4c/s1600-h/november-dec-2009+517.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 218px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/S2Zz5ch7o7I/AAAAAAAAAj0/Qmluw2ucZ4c/s320/november-dec-2009+517.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433157431217333170" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-4012991023239516402?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/4012991023239516402/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=4012991023239516402' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/4012991023239516402'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/4012991023239516402'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2010/02/animals.html' title='Animals'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/S2ZzHqnQTQI/AAAAAAAAAjE/QCL4L2YrvAk/s72-c/november-dec-2009+267.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-7800575911604511391</id><published>2009-10-03T12:03:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2009-10-03T12:04:05.620+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Hoopoe</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SsbwS8MHxFI/AAAAAAAAAi4/vmZ6rksROuk/s1600-h/IMG_9182.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 235px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SsbwS8MHxFI/AAAAAAAAAi4/vmZ6rksROuk/s320/IMG_9182.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388258212380656722" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beautiful birds. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-7800575911604511391?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/7800575911604511391/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=7800575911604511391' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/7800575911604511391'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/7800575911604511391'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/10/hoopoe.html' title='Hoopoe'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SsbwS8MHxFI/AAAAAAAAAi4/vmZ6rksROuk/s72-c/IMG_9182.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-8750444679238393335</id><published>2009-10-03T12:00:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2009-10-03T12:01:32.884+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Magpie Robin (male)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SsbvrURR_1I/AAAAAAAAAiw/frke5wszBX0/s1600-h/IMG_9420.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 261px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SsbvrURR_1I/AAAAAAAAAiw/frke5wszBX0/s320/IMG_9420.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388257531649982290" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beautiful birds. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-8750444679238393335?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/8750444679238393335/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=8750444679238393335' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/8750444679238393335'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/8750444679238393335'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/10/magpie-robin-male.html' title='Magpie Robin (male)'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SsbvrURR_1I/AAAAAAAAAiw/frke5wszBX0/s72-c/IMG_9420.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-4480805643264168847</id><published>2009-10-03T11:59:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2009-10-03T12:00:47.193+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Purple-rumped Sunbird (male)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Ssbvft_nlAI/AAAAAAAAAio/CvhL-KyUp14/s1600-h/IMG_1044.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 202px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Ssbvft_nlAI/AAAAAAAAAio/CvhL-KyUp14/s320/IMG_1044.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388257332396790786" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beautiful birds. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-4480805643264168847?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/4480805643264168847/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=4480805643264168847' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/4480805643264168847'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/4480805643264168847'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/10/purple-rumped-sunbird-male.html' title='Purple-rumped Sunbird (male)'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Ssbvft_nlAI/AAAAAAAAAio/CvhL-KyUp14/s72-c/IMG_1044.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-2794925834299994980</id><published>2009-10-03T11:58:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2009-10-03T11:59:23.765+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Rose-ringed parakeet (male)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SsbvLR5eFqI/AAAAAAAAAiY/W6AbWxzywAE/s1600-h/IMG_1540.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 279px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SsbvLR5eFqI/AAAAAAAAAiY/W6AbWxzywAE/s320/IMG_1540.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388256981257426594" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beautiful birds. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-2794925834299994980?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/2794925834299994980/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=2794925834299994980' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/2794925834299994980'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/2794925834299994980'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/10/rose-ringed-parakeet-male.html' title='Rose-ringed parakeet (male)'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SsbvLR5eFqI/AAAAAAAAAiY/W6AbWxzywAE/s72-c/IMG_1540.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-7698048476708903789</id><published>2009-10-03T11:57:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2009-10-03T11:58:29.077+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Grey Spotted Owlet</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Ssbu5xJCbPI/AAAAAAAAAiQ/gtCghGJ8n2g/s1600-h/IMG_0317.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 220px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Ssbu5xJCbPI/AAAAAAAAAiQ/gtCghGJ8n2g/s320/IMG_0317.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388256680406576370" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Grey Spotted Owlet preening. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-7698048476708903789?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/7698048476708903789/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=7698048476708903789' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/7698048476708903789'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/7698048476708903789'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/10/greay-spotted-owlet.html' title='Grey Spotted Owlet'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Ssbu5xJCbPI/AAAAAAAAAiQ/gtCghGJ8n2g/s72-c/IMG_0317.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-1464598919722667900</id><published>2009-10-03T11:52:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2009-10-03T11:57:26.829+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Grey Spotted Owlet and Lesser Golden Backed Woodpecker</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SsbuqqU-oBI/AAAAAAAAAiI/lynRbuwo7kY/s1600-h/IMG_0212.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 262px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SsbuqqU-oBI/AAAAAAAAAiI/lynRbuwo7kY/s320/IMG_0212.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388256420879573010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beautiful birds. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-1464598919722667900?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/1464598919722667900/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=1464598919722667900' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/1464598919722667900'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/1464598919722667900'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/10/grey-spotted-owlet-and-lesser-golden.html' title='Grey Spotted Owlet and Lesser Golden Backed Woodpecker'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SsbuqqU-oBI/AAAAAAAAAiI/lynRbuwo7kY/s72-c/IMG_0212.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-7955954502771988121</id><published>2009-09-03T13:02:00.020+05:30</published><updated>2009-09-03T15:08:21.758+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Nanmangalam Reserve Forest, Chennai</title><content type='html'>I recently visited Nanmangalam Reserve Forest in my hometown, Chennai, India. Had heard a lot about this tranquil place in the heart of a metropolitan city, but till now never had a chance to visit it. This is an evergreen scrub forest which is home to many birds, animals, and even some rare plants.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En route to the forest one can see what is left of the Pallikaranai marsh. I do not know why such an important waterbody has been horribly neglected. Since there have been no rains yet, the marsh was dry in almost all places. Once home to a variety of bird species, I could spot almost no birds in the marsh area. But may be they are there somewhere, just waiting for the rains. :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We reached the forest by 7:00 a.m. I was traveling with my mother and my friend. There is no proper gate or entry to the forest. So we just started walking inside. After 5 minutes, we came to a clearing and stopped for some time. We immediately spotted the Greater Coucal, Indian Treepies, Sunbirds, and Ashy Woodswallows. There inbetween some bushes, there was some disturbance and when we walked closer to investigate, we saw a bird flying away from the bush and landing on the low tree branch. It was the Little Brown Dove or the Laughing Dove. :)))&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp926vIh0hI/AAAAAAAAAfI/UjhZUQxfFh0/s1600-h/IMG_0344.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp926vIh0hI/AAAAAAAAAfI/UjhZUQxfFh0/s320/IMG_0344.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377147231560389138" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This sure made us all smile. We started walking some distance and all the way we heard so many bird calls of Crows, Hawks, Sunbirds, Tailorbirds, Common Mynahs, and even Pipits (I think). Then suddenly we spotted the White-eyed Buzzard. What a sight!! This was my first spotting of this bird and so predictably I was very excited. The bird was sitting on a bush that was in our path and so when we moved toward the him/her, he just flew away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Little time after sighting this bird of prey we spotted the White throated Munias. :)))&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp99avVBRtI/AAAAAAAAAfo/SE93y1qFJKw/s1600-h/IMG_0394.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 204px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp99avVBRtI/AAAAAAAAAfo/SE93y1qFJKw/s320/IMG_0394.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377154378438362834" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp99jTUG66I/AAAAAAAAAfw/Q4bssFz5GTo/s1600-h/IMG_0415.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 193px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp99jTUG66I/AAAAAAAAAfw/Q4bssFz5GTo/s320/IMG_0415.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377154525537168290" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We reached the abandoned quarries which is where the water collects after rains. There are lot of thorny plants as well as neem trees and other plants growing from the rock walls of the quarry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We stopped here for breakfast and some quiet birding. We all simultaneously noticed a pair of Pied Kingfishers and a Water snake in the quarry!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp95se1x-AI/AAAAAAAAAfQ/Ge5ifFRQpug/s1600-h/IMG_0452.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp95se1x-AI/AAAAAAAAAfQ/Ge5ifFRQpug/s320/IMG_0452.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377150285203503106" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp950GCe-4I/AAAAAAAAAfY/s7pfVHjzRaE/s1600-h/IMG_0464.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp950GCe-4I/AAAAAAAAAfY/s7pfVHjzRaE/s320/IMG_0464.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377150415984851842" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp957CWAohI/AAAAAAAAAfg/PXdAa-vUoFk/s1600-h/IMG_0600.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 195px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp957CWAohI/AAAAAAAAAfg/PXdAa-vUoFk/s320/IMG_0600.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377150535252091410" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amazing sight. :))) The day was not sunny and it was cool and a pleasant wind was blowing all the time. So we had our breakfast in peace and all the time saw and heard the Red-vented bulbuls and Red-whiskered bulbuls.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Pied Kingfishers were later joined by the Small Blue Kingfisher on the rock in the water. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp-BcHZnwXI/AAAAAAAAAgI/sHOQMPT31g8/s1600-h/IMG_0678.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 192px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp-BcHZnwXI/AAAAAAAAAgI/sHOQMPT31g8/s320/IMG_0678.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377158800126493042" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then in the bushes I spotted a pair of Purple-rumped sunbirds. I took a photo of the female Purple-rumped Sunbird.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp-BUsgi6iI/AAAAAAAAAgA/g-A_AEKNuJw/s1600-h/IMG_0527.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 234px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp-BUsgi6iI/AAAAAAAAAgA/g-A_AEKNuJw/s320/IMG_0527.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377158672648694306" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the quarry wall, on opposite side, I saw this bird which I have been unable to identify. It looks like a Yellow wagtail, but at first I thought it was a White-browed bulbul.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp-BMlcT6WI/AAAAAAAAAf4/U0GmCoLcdU0/s1600-h/IMG_0480.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 209px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp-BMlcT6WI/AAAAAAAAAf4/U0GmCoLcdU0/s320/IMG_0480.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377158533312932194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After some time, we spotted a Frog in the water. :))) By this time, the snake had submerged somewhere in the water. I also took photos of some flowers that were seen in and around the quarry. Here are two of them. :))&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp-DOFPCkSI/AAAAAAAAAgY/LnGgcRs_KzE/s1600-h/IMG_0609.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp-DOFPCkSI/AAAAAAAAAgY/LnGgcRs_KzE/s320/IMG_0609.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377160758050328866" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp-DIdJEccI/AAAAAAAAAgQ/V19WlG1K0R8/s1600-h/IMG_0457.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 196px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp-DIdJEccI/AAAAAAAAAgQ/V19WlG1K0R8/s320/IMG_0457.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377160661388521922" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp-EyOy3oOI/AAAAAAAAAgg/1Vl-zF7cdok/s1600-h/IMG_0501.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 197px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp-EyOy3oOI/AAAAAAAAAgg/1Vl-zF7cdok/s320/IMG_0501.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377162478603444450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then wow! I spotted the Brain Fever bird, at last. :))) I really don't know why give such a name to a bird though. I forgot to say this before only, but another bird was present in the quarry all the time giving us company and that was the Little Cormorant. :)))&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp-FHKfr2KI/AAAAAAAAAgw/XuCzH0riGmo/s1600-h/IMG_0922.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 196px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp-FHKfr2KI/AAAAAAAAAgw/XuCzH0riGmo/s320/IMG_0922.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377162838226491554" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp-FAhPADlI/AAAAAAAAAgo/ALPppOdeVSk/s1600-h/IMG_0799.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 198px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp-FAhPADlI/AAAAAAAAAgo/ALPppOdeVSk/s320/IMG_0799.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377162724071444050" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There were a lot of colourful varieties of dragonflies near the water in the quarry. :)) Here are a couple of them. :)))&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp-GIcpO9QI/AAAAAAAAAhA/31StOUHe5Aw/s1600-h/IMG_0774.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 192px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp-GIcpO9QI/AAAAAAAAAhA/31StOUHe5Aw/s320/IMG_0774.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377163959789876482" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp-FuGj8DNI/AAAAAAAAAg4/n7nSOvjINCI/s1600-h/IMG_0754.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 190px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp-FuGj8DNI/AAAAAAAAAg4/n7nSOvjINCI/s320/IMG_0754.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377163507185487058" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Afterwards, we walked away from these two quarries towards another two quarries. En route we saw the Ashy Prinia, a small variety of Lizard basking in the sun, and some colourful flowers. :)))&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp-IDT0SS2I/AAAAAAAAAhQ/zMK69WkOmw4/s1600-h/IMG_0698.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 194px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp-IDT0SS2I/AAAAAAAAAhQ/zMK69WkOmw4/s320/IMG_0698.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377166070544223074" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp-HiC8YilI/AAAAAAAAAhI/l-IR71UQB0o/s1600-h/IMG_0461.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp-HiC8YilI/AAAAAAAAAhI/l-IR71UQB0o/s320/IMG_0461.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377165499079101010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp-Ik6UD3fI/AAAAAAAAAhY/Ut9nGxSmzbE/s1600-h/IMG_0742.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 193px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp-Ik6UD3fI/AAAAAAAAAhY/Ut9nGxSmzbE/s320/IMG_0742.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377166647813725682" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp-ItmJLM9I/AAAAAAAAAhg/d6DUqpDf_rw/s1600-h/IMG_0862.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 192px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp-ItmJLM9I/AAAAAAAAAhg/d6DUqpDf_rw/s320/IMG_0862.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377166797018182610" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We reached the other quarry, but what a dissappointment. :((( There were people using the place as public toilet and in one place there were a couple of dhobies washing their load of clothes for the week. So we did not spot any birds near these places.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We turned back and started walking toward a hill covered with trees. We thought we should spot the Great Horned Owl. Pariah kite and Shikra were flying above us for some time giving us company. :)))&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But after much walking we did not spot any birds. Later, suddenly we saw a huge bird flying away from us from one of the trees/bushes in the hill. Wow! I think this was the Great Horned Owl, but we were not sure because we did not see his/her face. :(( Could not take a photo either.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We turned back from the hill and walked towards the entrance where we had parked our car. We spotted a female Garden Lizard and some white flowers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp-L4YM9N2I/AAAAAAAAAhw/O55hWdUVR58/s1600-h/IMG_0880.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp-L4YM9N2I/AAAAAAAAAhw/O55hWdUVR58/s320/IMG_0880.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377170280789391202" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp-LzlQ07rI/AAAAAAAAAho/bkX3yovrhKo/s1600-h/IMG_0861.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 194px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp-LzlQ07rI/AAAAAAAAAho/bkX3yovrhKo/s320/IMG_0861.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377170198395940530" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We later spotted Blue Tailed Bee Eaters and another small brown bird which I am unable to identify. May be this a variety of Lark or may be a Pipit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp-MKsU3ELI/AAAAAAAAAiA/2MGxNhUi1Gw/s1600-h/IMG_0965.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 218px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp-MKsU3ELI/AAAAAAAAAiA/2MGxNhUi1Gw/s320/IMG_0965.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377170595428896946" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp-MEcIsazI/AAAAAAAAAh4/FNK9h3MGVr0/s1600-h/IMG_0944.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp-MEcIsazI/AAAAAAAAAh4/FNK9h3MGVr0/s320/IMG_0944.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377170488003685170" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All in all, a wonderful and a memorable trip. :))) Outside the forest where we had parked our car, we had some refreshing sugarcane juice. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-7955954502771988121?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/7955954502771988121/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=7955954502771988121' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/7955954502771988121'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/7955954502771988121'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/09/nanmangalam-reserve-forest-chennai.html' title='Nanmangalam Reserve Forest, Chennai'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sp926vIh0hI/AAAAAAAAAfI/UjhZUQxfFh0/s72-c/IMG_0344.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-7031493141916855333</id><published>2009-07-05T16:38:00.018+05:30</published><updated>2009-07-05T17:21:13.407+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Chembarambakkam Lake - Part II</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Chembarambakkam Lake - contd.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Little Grebe was swimming and diving under the water quite frequently. I am always surprised by how long they can stay under water. :)))&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SlCJ75_ReEI/AAAAAAAAAds/dpO_NVRgvlA/s1600-h/IMG_8192.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 210px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SlCJ75_ReEI/AAAAAAAAAds/dpO_NVRgvlA/s320/IMG_8192.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354931619215013954" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is also Little grebe in non-breeding plumage. :)))&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SlCKajZ3aAI/AAAAAAAAAd0/T-vW5wqYgNk/s1600-h/IMG_8247.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 201px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SlCKajZ3aAI/AAAAAAAAAd0/T-vW5wqYgNk/s320/IMG_8247.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354932145728481282" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This bold house crow posed nicely before taking a dive into the waters of the lake in search of dead fish maybe. I did see a few dead fish and some chemical effluents in the lake waters. I think they are from the nearby industrial factories which have cropped up near the lake shore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SlCL2QK5PEI/AAAAAAAAAd8/9iBSG6wKtgI/s1600-h/IMG_8282.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SlCL2QK5PEI/AAAAAAAAAd8/9iBSG6wKtgI/s320/IMG_8282.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354933721113377858" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the fields, near the lake I took a photo of this beautiful butterfly. This is the Great orange tip:)))&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SlCMzKqrQkI/AAAAAAAAAeE/uloTwA3vGC4/s1600-h/IMG_8316.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SlCMzKqrQkI/AAAAAAAAAeE/uloTwA3vGC4/s320/IMG_8316.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354934767608087106" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I spotted many Fulvous Whistling Ducks (Dendrocygna bicolor). Loved their plumage. :)))&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SlCOWa3YeII/AAAAAAAAAeM/Kt_sT2AYnmw/s1600-h/IMG_8403.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 193px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SlCOWa3YeII/AAAAAAAAAeM/Kt_sT2AYnmw/s320/IMG_8403.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354936472763398274" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am yet to ID these birds. Will add to the blog later. :)))&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SlCPRiU_FuI/AAAAAAAAAeU/TBEiAT3YOzw/s1600-h/IMG_8409.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 192px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SlCPRiU_FuI/AAAAAAAAAeU/TBEiAT3YOzw/s320/IMG_8409.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354937488378894050" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the close up of the water lily. :)))&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SlCSI1oGKwI/AAAAAAAAAec/NNio-RL3SoE/s1600-h/IMG_8459.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 202px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SlCSI1oGKwI/AAAAAAAAAec/NNio-RL3SoE/s320/IMG_8459.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354940637475384066" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saw this amazing red-coloured dragonfly near the water lily. :)))&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SlCSi_6eAMI/AAAAAAAAAek/IiP3J4ZNIA4/s1600-h/IMG_8472.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 201px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SlCSi_6eAMI/AAAAAAAAAek/IiP3J4ZNIA4/s320/IMG_8472.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354941086913396930" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cormorant was enjoying the sun. :))) This was taken near the drier part of the lake.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SlCSzA4tDgI/AAAAAAAAAes/tsfqriadbSc/s1600-h/IMG_8477.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 202px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SlCSzA4tDgI/AAAAAAAAAes/tsfqriadbSc/s320/IMG_8477.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354941362052337154" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saw three small fish in a section of shallow, clear water of the lake.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SlCTDs33FQI/AAAAAAAAAe0/ruDN-8nnZjg/s1600-h/IMG_8483.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 196px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SlCTDs33FQI/AAAAAAAAAe0/ruDN-8nnZjg/s320/IMG_8483.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354941648737867010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last, I spotted this Red-wattled lapwing flying overhead and talikng loudly to us all the time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SlCTUzPT8kI/AAAAAAAAAe8/4TIWaucsxz8/s1600-h/IMG_8490.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 191px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SlCTUzPT8kI/AAAAAAAAAe8/4TIWaucsxz8/s320/IMG_8490.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354941942504616514" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Afterwards, we left the lake with plenty of good memories.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-7031493141916855333?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/7031493141916855333/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=7031493141916855333' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/7031493141916855333'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/7031493141916855333'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/07/chembarambakkam-lake-part-ii.html' title='Chembarambakkam Lake - Part II'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SlCJ75_ReEI/AAAAAAAAAds/dpO_NVRgvlA/s72-c/IMG_8192.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-1308439657966378648</id><published>2009-07-05T15:53:00.028+05:30</published><updated>2009-07-05T16:36:53.862+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Chembarambakkam Lake - Part I</title><content type='html'>I visited Chembarambakkam Lake, a rainfed lake near Chennai, India, this June, 2009. It is the source of the Adyar river. I went with very low expectation of spotting birds as one year previously when I visited the Osudu lake in Pondicherry, India, during summer I was very disappointed in not seeing even one bird. Later I came to know that because of pollution, the lake was not visited by the birds in summer. But Chembarambakkam came as a pleasant surprise as there were quite a few birds to be seen. :) I spotted this Pheasant-tailed jacana (&lt;strong&gt;Wader&lt;/strong&gt;) near the water lilies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SlB_Tvp3huI/AAAAAAAAAcE/MlKKCvZXNB4/s1600-h/IMG_8116.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 201px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SlB_Tvp3huI/AAAAAAAAAcE/MlKKCvZXNB4/s320/IMG_8116.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354919934129833698" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A few minutes later I saw this breeding pair nearby. I was so excited to see them breeding in this lake. :)))&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SlCAxmCEHSI/AAAAAAAAAcM/GyrCh_jC-08/s1600-h/IMG_8122.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 198px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SlCAxmCEHSI/AAAAAAAAAcM/GyrCh_jC-08/s320/IMG_8122.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354921546454670626" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Later, this White-breasted Kingfisher came an perched on the Lily flower. I love this colourful bird and that day in the morning light the bird looked awesome.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SlCDfxcYdiI/AAAAAAAAAcU/mdt3esObTDc/s1600-h/IMG_8128.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 204px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SlCDfxcYdiI/AAAAAAAAAcU/mdt3esObTDc/s320/IMG_8128.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354924538815084066" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On dry land I spotted these Black drongo pair perched on a thorny bush.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SlCEPpHFAPI/AAAAAAAAAcc/7_wdAwyxK9g/s1600-h/IMG_8142.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 202px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SlCEPpHFAPI/AAAAAAAAAcc/7_wdAwyxK9g/s320/IMG_8142.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354925361211965682" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many Eurasian Coots were swimming against the wind. The wind, the ripple effect on the water and the birds altogether made this a memorable trip.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SlCEsTx3lfI/AAAAAAAAAck/lHbeoNkaTNQ/s1600-h/IMG_8147.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 198px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SlCEsTx3lfI/AAAAAAAAAck/lHbeoNkaTNQ/s320/IMG_8147.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354925853702067698" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Later, while having lunch we, my mother, my aunt, and I, spotted this Indian Pond heron flying nearby.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SlCG4DUZ19I/AAAAAAAAAc8/FGsrksJG2jA/s1600-h/IMG_8155.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 198px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SlCG4DUZ19I/AAAAAAAAAc8/FGsrksJG2jA/s320/IMG_8155.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354928254465202130" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This Open billed stork was searching for food near the vegetation. I also unfotunately spotted the plastic bottle nearby. The state government is planning to clean the lake soon. I hope so, for our feathered friends' sake.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SlCHO5Ax3gI/AAAAAAAAAdE/CSLtL4SQ9SY/s1600-h/IMG_8161.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 203px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SlCHO5Ax3gI/AAAAAAAAAdE/CSLtL4SQ9SY/s320/IMG_8161.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354928646835527170" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I saw Spot-billed duck near the egret. The other bird I am yet to ID.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SlCI08iR5bI/AAAAAAAAAdU/eS9a-rwx7HI/s1600-h/IMG_8166.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 209px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SlCI08iR5bI/AAAAAAAAAdU/eS9a-rwx7HI/s320/IMG_8166.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354930400128001458" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open billed storks, egret, cormorant, all in one island. :)))&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SlCI-_-bddI/AAAAAAAAAdc/GrircML55L0/s1600-h/IMG_8178.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 198px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SlCI-_-bddI/AAAAAAAAAdc/GrircML55L0/s320/IMG_8178.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354930572850066898" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will continue the rest of my trip in Chembarambakkam Lake - Part II&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-1308439657966378648?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/1308439657966378648/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=1308439657966378648' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/1308439657966378648'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/1308439657966378648'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/07/chembarambakkam-lake.html' title='Chembarambakkam Lake - Part I'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SlB_Tvp3huI/AAAAAAAAAcE/MlKKCvZXNB4/s72-c/IMG_8116.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-3963373703635597444</id><published>2009-05-18T22:02:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2009-05-18T22:08:48.306+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Hoopoe</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ShGN2frJYwI/AAAAAAAAAb8/H7mgVRlE8FM/s1600-h/April-May-2009+207.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ShGN2frJYwI/AAAAAAAAAb8/H7mgVRlE8FM/s320/April-May-2009+207.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337203000765670146" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another beautiful bird. :))) They eat both fruits and insects. They are seen foraging for food on the ground along with Common Mynahs, Babblers, Drongos, Magpie Robins, and sometimes Indian Treepies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bird Photography Weekly #38:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://birdfreak.com/category/bird-photography-weekly/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://birdfreak.com/images/bpw-sharing-logo-smaller.jpg" width="125"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-3963373703635597444?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/3963373703635597444/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=3963373703635597444' title='12 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/3963373703635597444'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/3963373703635597444'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/05/hoopoe.html' title='Hoopoe'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ShGN2frJYwI/AAAAAAAAAb8/H7mgVRlE8FM/s72-c/April-May-2009+207.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>12</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-1216308635457741705</id><published>2009-05-18T21:59:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2009-05-18T22:01:48.050+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Rose-ringed parakeet</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ShGNGmBDGeI/AAAAAAAAAb0/89t8UasrtDI/s1600-h/April-May-2009+201.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 204px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ShGNGmBDGeI/AAAAAAAAAb0/89t8UasrtDI/s320/April-May-2009+201.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337202177834424802" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This beautiful bird came and sat on the Mango tree next to my house. I love to see them free. They are unfortunately one of the most popular birds to be kept as pets. I really don't like to see them in cages.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-1216308635457741705?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/1216308635457741705/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=1216308635457741705' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/1216308635457741705'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/1216308635457741705'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/05/rose-ringed-parakeet.html' title='Rose-ringed parakeet'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ShGNGmBDGeI/AAAAAAAAAb0/89t8UasrtDI/s72-c/April-May-2009+201.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-6873690973192359431</id><published>2009-05-18T21:54:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2009-05-18T21:59:40.623+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Yellow-billed babbler</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ShGMEBiBtcI/AAAAAAAAAbs/L5iw279BcPU/s1600-h/April-May-2009+047.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 206px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ShGMEBiBtcI/AAAAAAAAAbs/L5iw279BcPU/s320/April-May-2009+047.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337201034169267650" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seven of these birds are usually seen together. They look for food on the ground by digging the earth with their beaks. They also sing together sometimes. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-6873690973192359431?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/6873690973192359431/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=6873690973192359431' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/6873690973192359431'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/6873690973192359431'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/05/yellow-billed-babbler.html' title='Yellow-billed babbler'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ShGMEBiBtcI/AAAAAAAAAbs/L5iw279BcPU/s72-c/April-May-2009+047.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-4955367986852332815</id><published>2009-04-21T13:44:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2009-04-21T13:48:15.788+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Indian Robin (female)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Se2AkK26_pI/AAAAAAAAAbk/jvnU_qP6zfw/s1600-h/April-16-2009+225.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 201px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Se2AkK26_pI/AAAAAAAAAbk/jvnU_qP6zfw/s320/April-16-2009+225.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327055293127523986" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the female Indian Robin. :))) This is the first time I am taking a photo of this bird.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-4955367986852332815?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/4955367986852332815/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=4955367986852332815' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/4955367986852332815'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/4955367986852332815'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/04/indian-robin-female.html' title='Indian Robin (female)'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Se2AkK26_pI/AAAAAAAAAbk/jvnU_qP6zfw/s72-c/April-16-2009+225.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-3990953369675400762</id><published>2009-04-21T13:42:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2009-04-21T13:44:45.517+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Indian Robin (male)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Se1__HvfZMI/AAAAAAAAAbc/vfDbI3FHYCY/s1600-h/April-16-2009+160.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 208px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Se1__HvfZMI/AAAAAAAAAbc/vfDbI3FHYCY/s320/April-16-2009+160.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327054656635888834" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These beautiful birds are usually found in open stony, grassy and scrub forest habitats. They feed on insects, frogs, and lizards. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-3990953369675400762?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/3990953369675400762/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=3990953369675400762' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/3990953369675400762'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/3990953369675400762'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/04/indian-robin-male.html' title='Indian Robin (male)'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Se1__HvfZMI/AAAAAAAAAbc/vfDbI3FHYCY/s72-c/April-16-2009+160.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-4220893079369359751</id><published>2009-04-21T13:37:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2009-04-21T13:42:18.024+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Ashy Woodswallows</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Se1-9TInHJI/AAAAAAAAAbU/JyyQoa0kCvo/s1600-h/April-16-2009+038.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 197px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Se1-9TInHJI/AAAAAAAAAbU/JyyQoa0kCvo/s320/April-16-2009+038.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327053525822676114" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saw these beautiful pair recently. :))) I love their pale grey plumage.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-4220893079369359751?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/4220893079369359751/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=4220893079369359751' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/4220893079369359751'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/4220893079369359751'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/04/ashy-woodswallows.html' title='Ashy Woodswallows'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Se1-9TInHJI/AAAAAAAAAbU/JyyQoa0kCvo/s72-c/April-16-2009+038.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-5618182871228604984</id><published>2009-04-21T13:26:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2009-04-21T13:37:42.480+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Pigeons in my Care</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Se18XIV99mI/AAAAAAAAAbM/xhvQ-yFISNA/s1600-h/April-16-2009+007.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Se18XIV99mI/AAAAAAAAAbM/xhvQ-yFISNA/s320/April-16-2009+007.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327050671067625058" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These are young pigeons which fell from their nest. One of them had got hurt (both in the head and in the eye). One eye looked permanently damaged and another eye was actually "missing". But after the vet treated the bird, the eye that was damaged regained vision. After a couple of days the "missing" eye also became visible and now both eyes are fine. :)))&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At first both refused to eat by themselves. But later after handfeeding them for a couple of days, they started feeding by themselves. Now they both are doing fine. My dogs are very much excited. Blackie likes to act jealous. But my other dog Coco is openly happy about having pigeons. She loves them like their mother and runs to them whenever she thinks they are in distress. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-5618182871228604984?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/5618182871228604984/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=5618182871228604984' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/5618182871228604984'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/5618182871228604984'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/04/pigeons-in-my-care.html' title='Pigeons in my Care'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Se18XIV99mI/AAAAAAAAAbM/xhvQ-yFISNA/s72-c/April-16-2009+007.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-8102959994689724559</id><published>2009-04-09T19:22:00.004+05:30</published><updated>2009-04-09T19:27:21.209+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Indian Pond Heron</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sd3976MuY7I/AAAAAAAAAbE/Nq7le4MzNwo/s1600-h/IMG_0144.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sd3976MuY7I/AAAAAAAAAbE/Nq7le4MzNwo/s320/IMG_0144.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322689540298531762" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taken at Crocodile Park. (On March 18, 2007). This is the breeding plumage. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-8102959994689724559?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/8102959994689724559/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=8102959994689724559' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/8102959994689724559'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/8102959994689724559'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/04/indian-pond-heron_09.html' title='Indian Pond Heron'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sd3976MuY7I/AAAAAAAAAbE/Nq7le4MzNwo/s72-c/IMG_0144.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-4817779133009080062</id><published>2009-04-09T19:21:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2009-04-09T19:26:46.151+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Indian Pond Heron</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sd39dR9w7SI/AAAAAAAAAa8/tpERdeNZZZ4/s1600-h/IMG_0116.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 206px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sd39dR9w7SI/AAAAAAAAAa8/tpERdeNZZZ4/s320/IMG_0116.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322689014102289698" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taken at Karikili Bird Sanctuary (On March 18, 2007). This is the breeding plumage.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-4817779133009080062?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/4817779133009080062/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=4817779133009080062' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/4817779133009080062'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/4817779133009080062'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/04/indian-pond-heron.html' title='Indian Pond Heron'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sd39dR9w7SI/AAAAAAAAAa8/tpERdeNZZZ4/s72-c/IMG_0116.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-8972102515353575751</id><published>2009-04-09T19:18:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2009-04-09T19:21:16.021+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Cattle Egrets</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sd39CgrRpOI/AAAAAAAAAa0/B4MduxvWK1Q/s1600-h/IMG_0044.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sd39CgrRpOI/AAAAAAAAAa0/B4MduxvWK1Q/s320/IMG_0044.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322688554194805986" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taken at Vedanthangal Bird Sanctuary (on March 18, 2007). One is in breeding plumage. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-8972102515353575751?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/8972102515353575751/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=8972102515353575751' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/8972102515353575751'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/8972102515353575751'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/04/cattle-egrets.html' title='Cattle Egrets'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sd39CgrRpOI/AAAAAAAAAa0/B4MduxvWK1Q/s72-c/IMG_0044.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-8847605213247514249</id><published>2009-03-18T15:08:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2009-03-18T15:09:17.610+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Red-vented Bulbul</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ScDBFqq6aCI/AAAAAAAAAas/3YmG46TKbF4/s1600-h/March-2-2009+036.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 206px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ScDBFqq6aCI/AAAAAAAAAas/3YmG46TKbF4/s320/March-2-2009+036.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314459863394969634" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A pair of Red-vented bublbuls were perched on top of a mango tree. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-8847605213247514249?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/8847605213247514249/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=8847605213247514249' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/8847605213247514249'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/8847605213247514249'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/03/red-vented-bulbul.html' title='Red-vented Bulbul'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ScDBFqq6aCI/AAAAAAAAAas/3YmG46TKbF4/s72-c/March-2-2009+036.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-5850673187020028783</id><published>2009-03-18T15:05:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2009-03-18T15:07:08.684+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Pond Heron</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ScDAhFpEMSI/AAAAAAAAAak/2Y5VRxoYZgQ/s1600-h/March-10-2009+066.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 201px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ScDAhFpEMSI/AAAAAAAAAak/2Y5VRxoYZgQ/s320/March-10-2009+066.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314459234979819810" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A pleasant surprise to see this bird. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-5850673187020028783?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/5850673187020028783/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=5850673187020028783' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/5850673187020028783'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/5850673187020028783'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/03/pond-heron.html' title='Pond Heron'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ScDAhFpEMSI/AAAAAAAAAak/2Y5VRxoYZgQ/s72-c/March-10-2009+066.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-8786812877125482793</id><published>2009-03-18T15:04:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2009-03-18T15:37:09.514+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Peacock</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ScDASikXi9I/AAAAAAAAAac/pHqm0PoOxp4/s1600-h/February-12-2009+181.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 206px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ScDASikXi9I/AAAAAAAAAac/pHqm0PoOxp4/s320/February-12-2009+181.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314458985046707154" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the first time I am seeing this bird on a tree. :)))&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bird Photography weekly #29.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://birdfreak.com/category/bird-photography-weekly/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://birdfreak.com/images/bpw-sharing-logo-smaller.jpg" width="125"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-8786812877125482793?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/8786812877125482793/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=8786812877125482793' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/8786812877125482793'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/8786812877125482793'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/03/peacock_18.html' title='Peacock'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ScDASikXi9I/AAAAAAAAAac/pHqm0PoOxp4/s72-c/February-12-2009+181.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-4338664118056050860</id><published>2009-03-18T15:03:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2009-03-18T15:04:21.208+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Magpie Robin</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ScC__6asuoI/AAAAAAAAAaU/AVPj-n6Q9oc/s1600-h/February-12-2009+005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 202px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ScC__6asuoI/AAAAAAAAAaU/AVPj-n6Q9oc/s320/February-12-2009+005.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314458665031088770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This beautiful bird was enoing food in the garden. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-4338664118056050860?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/4338664118056050860/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=4338664118056050860' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/4338664118056050860'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/4338664118056050860'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/03/magpie-robin_18.html' title='Magpie Robin'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ScC__6asuoI/AAAAAAAAAaU/AVPj-n6Q9oc/s72-c/February-12-2009+005.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-3492398385538220663</id><published>2009-03-03T19:03:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2009-03-03T19:04:43.945+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Loten's Sunbird (male)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sa0x0atcxaI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/7ABY1OeA574/s1600-h/February-14-2009+074+(45).jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 210px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sa0x0atcxaI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/7ABY1OeA574/s320/February-14-2009+074+(45).jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308954312332592546" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Loten's Sunbird enjoying the sun. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-3492398385538220663?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/3492398385538220663/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=3492398385538220663' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/3492398385538220663'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/3492398385538220663'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/03/lotens-sunbird-male.html' title='Loten&apos;s Sunbird (male)'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sa0x0atcxaI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/7ABY1OeA574/s72-c/February-14-2009+074+(45).jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-7189078317389907670</id><published>2009-03-03T19:01:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2009-03-03T19:12:57.862+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Grey Spotted Owlet (male)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sa0xU3HYRMI/AAAAAAAAAZs/z5HJjXPFtMs/s1600-h/February-28-2009+145.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 202px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sa0xU3HYRMI/AAAAAAAAAZs/z5HJjXPFtMs/s320/February-28-2009+145.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308953770201728194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A male Grey spotted owlet. :)))&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bird Photography Weekly #27.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://birdfreak.com/category/bird-photography-weekly/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://birdfreak.com/images/bpw-sharing-logo-wide.jpg" width="225"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-7189078317389907670?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/7189078317389907670/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=7189078317389907670' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/7189078317389907670'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/7189078317389907670'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/03/grey-spotted-owlet-male.html' title='Grey Spotted Owlet (male)'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sa0xU3HYRMI/AAAAAAAAAZs/z5HJjXPFtMs/s72-c/February-28-2009+145.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-6702879139647267269</id><published>2009-03-03T18:59:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2009-03-03T19:01:36.635+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Purple-rumped Sunbird (male)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sa0w5cdxiNI/AAAAAAAAAZk/Bj61VOzmw6k/s1600-h/February-12-2009+239.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 202px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sa0w5cdxiNI/AAAAAAAAAZk/Bj61VOzmw6k/s320/February-12-2009+239.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308953299191433426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Purple-rumped sunbird looking for food. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-6702879139647267269?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/6702879139647267269/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=6702879139647267269' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/6702879139647267269'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/6702879139647267269'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/03/purple-rumped-sunbird-male.html' title='Purple-rumped Sunbird (male)'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sa0w5cdxiNI/AAAAAAAAAZk/Bj61VOzmw6k/s72-c/February-12-2009+239.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-5809158101669442309</id><published>2009-03-03T18:58:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2009-03-03T18:59:44.416+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Magpie Robin (male)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sa0wp12rd4I/AAAAAAAAAZc/G1dgsLczmrw/s1600-h/February-12-2009+225.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 199px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sa0wp12rd4I/AAAAAAAAAZc/G1dgsLczmrw/s320/February-12-2009+225.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308953031128872834" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Singing bird. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-5809158101669442309?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/5809158101669442309/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=5809158101669442309' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/5809158101669442309'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/5809158101669442309'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/03/magpie-robin-male.html' title='Magpie Robin (male)'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sa0wp12rd4I/AAAAAAAAAZc/G1dgsLczmrw/s72-c/February-12-2009+225.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-6006386688756847611</id><published>2009-03-03T18:57:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2009-03-03T18:58:45.548+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Purple Sunbird (male)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sa0waUu1XxI/AAAAAAAAAZU/GqWxyxl2Xok/s1600-h/February-12-2009+073.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 205px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sa0waUu1XxI/AAAAAAAAAZU/GqWxyxl2Xok/s320/February-12-2009+073.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308952764539559698" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A beautiful bird in flight. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-6006386688756847611?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/6006386688756847611/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=6006386688756847611' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/6006386688756847611'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/6006386688756847611'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/03/purple-sunbird-male.html' title='Purple Sunbird (male)'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/Sa0waUu1XxI/AAAAAAAAAZU/GqWxyxl2Xok/s72-c/February-12-2009+073.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-7021061305987464635</id><published>2009-02-10T08:23:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2009-02-10T08:24:44.729+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Small green bee eater</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SZDsQFzHrrI/AAAAAAAAAZI/u85gW_2vqZE/s1600-h/January-1-2009+289.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 206px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SZDsQFzHrrI/AAAAAAAAAZI/u85gW_2vqZE/s320/January-1-2009+289.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300996522593726130" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the Small green bee eater. Was sitting on the fence surrounding the paddy fields. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-7021061305987464635?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/7021061305987464635/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=7021061305987464635' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/7021061305987464635'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/7021061305987464635'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/02/small-green-bee-eater.html' title='Small green bee eater'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SZDsQFzHrrI/AAAAAAAAAZI/u85gW_2vqZE/s72-c/January-1-2009+289.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-9221720716995394318</id><published>2009-02-10T08:22:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2009-02-10T08:23:35.458+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Barn Swallow</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SZDr9M0kKeI/AAAAAAAAAZA/S9jLx7tWblk/s1600-h/January-1-2009+319.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 220px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SZDr9M0kKeI/AAAAAAAAAZA/S9jLx7tWblk/s320/January-1-2009+319.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300996198061320674" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the Barn Swallow. Was sitting on this branch for quite some time before flying away. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-9221720716995394318?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/9221720716995394318/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=9221720716995394318' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/9221720716995394318'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/9221720716995394318'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/02/barn-swallow.html' title='Barn Swallow'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SZDr9M0kKeI/AAAAAAAAAZA/S9jLx7tWblk/s72-c/January-1-2009+319.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-3207810740169315020</id><published>2009-02-10T08:21:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2009-02-10T08:22:10.817+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Laughing Dove</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SZDrrcZItSI/AAAAAAAAAY4/wN1KQJsRmgY/s1600-h/January-1-2009+326.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 206px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SZDrrcZItSI/AAAAAAAAAY4/wN1KQJsRmgY/s320/January-1-2009+326.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300995893003597090" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the Laughing dove. This is the first time I am spotting this bird. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-3207810740169315020?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/3207810740169315020/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=3207810740169315020' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/3207810740169315020'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/3207810740169315020'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/02/laughing-dove.html' title='Laughing Dove'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SZDrrcZItSI/AAAAAAAAAY4/wN1KQJsRmgY/s72-c/January-1-2009+326.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-2721880152719945850</id><published>2009-02-10T08:19:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2009-02-10T11:08:54.900+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Indian Roller</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SZDrZrqTtTI/AAAAAAAAAYw/3z95O4IRg9Q/s1600-h/January-1-2009+328.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 177px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SZDrZrqTtTI/AAAAAAAAAYw/3z95O4IRg9Q/s320/January-1-2009+328.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300995587864507698" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the Indian Roller. I was finally able to take a photo of this bird in flight after trying for 2 years. :)))&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bird Photography Weekly #24.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://birdfreak.com/category/bird-photography-weekly/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://birdfreak.com/images/bpw-sharing-logo-wide.jpg" width="225"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-2721880152719945850?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/2721880152719945850/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=2721880152719945850' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/2721880152719945850'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/2721880152719945850'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/02/indian-roller.html' title='Indian Roller'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SZDrZrqTtTI/AAAAAAAAAYw/3z95O4IRg9Q/s72-c/January-1-2009+328.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-7743063283500440562</id><published>2009-02-10T08:18:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2009-02-10T08:19:40.980+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Ashy crowned sparrow lark</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SZDrFC8fhGI/AAAAAAAAAYo/q2SwhiajUek/s1600-h/January-1-2009+138.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 216px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SZDrFC8fhGI/AAAAAAAAAYo/q2SwhiajUek/s320/January-1-2009+138.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300995233337541730" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the Ashy crowned sparrow lark. Allowed me to get quite close and take this photo. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-7743063283500440562?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/7743063283500440562/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=7743063283500440562' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/7743063283500440562'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/7743063283500440562'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/02/ashy-crowned-sparrow-lark.html' title='Ashy crowned sparrow lark'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SZDrFC8fhGI/AAAAAAAAAYo/q2SwhiajUek/s72-c/January-1-2009+138.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-6823072355642898407</id><published>2009-02-10T08:13:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2009-02-10T08:18:31.835+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Purple sunbird (male)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SZDqyzzvY-I/AAAAAAAAAYg/vQ3VGQmvX60/s1600-h/January-1-2009+107.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SZDqyzzvY-I/AAAAAAAAAYg/vQ3VGQmvX60/s320/January-1-2009+107.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300994920036656098" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the male Purple sunbird. :))) Busy drinking nectar.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-6823072355642898407?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/6823072355642898407/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=6823072355642898407' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/6823072355642898407'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/6823072355642898407'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/02/purple-sunbird-male.html' title='Purple sunbird (male)'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SZDqyzzvY-I/AAAAAAAAAYg/vQ3VGQmvX60/s72-c/January-1-2009+107.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-1383866638717519296</id><published>2009-01-31T11:48:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2009-01-31T11:49:03.965+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Paddyfield pipit</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SYPtN1RLaNI/AAAAAAAAAYA/etm5i73HH6E/s1600-h/January-1-2009+282.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 226px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SYPtN1RLaNI/AAAAAAAAAYA/etm5i73HH6E/s320/January-1-2009+282.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297338408611047634" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beautiful bird. Usually seen near paddy fields. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-1383866638717519296?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/1383866638717519296/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=1383866638717519296' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/1383866638717519296'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/1383866638717519296'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/01/paddyfield-pipit_31.html' title='Paddyfield pipit'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SYPtN1RLaNI/AAAAAAAAAYA/etm5i73HH6E/s72-c/January-1-2009+282.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-6561317240452306602</id><published>2009-01-31T11:46:00.004+05:30</published><updated>2009-02-02T21:26:49.779+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Purple sunbird (female)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SYcXt25zmdI/AAAAAAAAAYQ/cCmfdDvtdTw/s1600-h/January-1-2009+083.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 202px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SYcXt25zmdI/AAAAAAAAAYQ/cCmfdDvtdTw/s320/January-1-2009+083.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298229563224201682" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beautiful bird. First time I am spotting/recognising this bird and also managing to take a photo of this bird. :)))&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check out this week's Bird Photography Weekly #22.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://birdfreak.com/category/bird-photography-weekly/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://birdfreak.com/images/bpw-sharing-logo-wide.jpg" width="225"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-6561317240452306602?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/6561317240452306602/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=6561317240452306602' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/6561317240452306602'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/6561317240452306602'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/01/purple-sunbird-female.html' title='Purple sunbird (female)'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SYcXt25zmdI/AAAAAAAAAYQ/cCmfdDvtdTw/s72-c/January-1-2009+083.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-2549884264190834166</id><published>2009-01-31T11:41:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2009-02-02T21:27:48.646+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Common tailorbird</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SYcX850DoaI/AAAAAAAAAYY/iwqUdZdGmQg/s1600-h/January-1-2009+134.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 203px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SYcX850DoaI/AAAAAAAAAYY/iwqUdZdGmQg/s320/January-1-2009+134.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298229821703430562" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beautiful bird. Took this photo in the evening, with the sun's rays falling on this bird. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-2549884264190834166?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/2549884264190834166/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=2549884264190834166' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/2549884264190834166'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/2549884264190834166'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/01/common-tailorbird.html' title='Common tailorbird'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SYcX850DoaI/AAAAAAAAAYY/iwqUdZdGmQg/s72-c/January-1-2009+134.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-81336432880433329</id><published>2009-01-31T11:37:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2009-01-31T11:41:41.859+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Purple-rumped sunbird (male)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SYPrdHgGHQI/AAAAAAAAAXg/P9BYeahaQr4/s1600-h/January-1-2009+061.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 208px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SYPrdHgGHQI/AAAAAAAAAXg/P9BYeahaQr4/s320/January-1-2009+061.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297336472180235522" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beautiful bird. Nectar is the main source of food. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-81336432880433329?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/81336432880433329/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=81336432880433329' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/81336432880433329'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/81336432880433329'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/01/purple-rumped-sunbird-male.html' title='Purple-rumped sunbird (male)'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SYPrdHgGHQI/AAAAAAAAAXg/P9BYeahaQr4/s72-c/January-1-2009+061.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-5642869499870889522</id><published>2009-01-25T12:03:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2009-01-25T12:36:31.641+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Indian Treepie</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SXwIwN-kG_I/AAAAAAAAAXY/wVOyI1fPYwE/s1600-h/January-1-2009+056.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 232px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SXwIwN-kG_I/AAAAAAAAAXY/wVOyI1fPYwE/s320/January-1-2009+056.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295116886359677938" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Very beautiful bird. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-5642869499870889522?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/5642869499870889522/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=5642869499870889522' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/5642869499870889522'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/5642869499870889522'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/01/indian-treepie.html' title='Indian Treepie'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SXwIwN-kG_I/AAAAAAAAAXY/wVOyI1fPYwE/s72-c/January-1-2009+056.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-1437149262238148967</id><published>2009-01-23T17:40:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2009-01-23T17:42:20.828+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Little-ringed Plover</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SXmz5swvJfI/AAAAAAAAAXQ/NEaIvh5euJI/s1600-h/January-1-2009+188.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 203px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SXmz5swvJfI/AAAAAAAAAXQ/NEaIvh5euJI/s320/January-1-2009+188.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294460640800220658" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This small, beautiful bird was concentrating hard on finding food. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-1437149262238148967?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/1437149262238148967/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=1437149262238148967' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/1437149262238148967'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/1437149262238148967'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/01/little-ringed-plover.html' title='Little-ringed Plover'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SXmz5swvJfI/AAAAAAAAAXQ/NEaIvh5euJI/s72-c/January-1-2009+188.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-773081388174239929</id><published>2009-01-23T17:36:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2009-01-23T17:38:02.864+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Black Drongo</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SXmy5I-8teI/AAAAAAAAAXI/2Gdbrdpkw-4/s1600-h/January-1-2009+316.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 209px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SXmy5I-8teI/AAAAAAAAAXI/2Gdbrdpkw-4/s320/January-1-2009+316.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294459531684525538" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This beautiful black bird was sitting and enjoying the sun. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-773081388174239929?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/773081388174239929/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=773081388174239929' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/773081388174239929'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/773081388174239929'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/01/black-drongo.html' title='Black Drongo'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SXmy5I-8teI/AAAAAAAAAXI/2Gdbrdpkw-4/s72-c/January-1-2009+316.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-5890093422649192466</id><published>2009-01-23T17:34:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2009-01-23T18:01:46.181+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Red-wattled lapwing</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SXmyhlZvQGI/AAAAAAAAAXA/KCDzJ5J1iHE/s1600-h/January-1-2009+124.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 217px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SXmyhlZvQGI/AAAAAAAAAXA/KCDzJ5J1iHE/s320/January-1-2009+124.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294459126996222050" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A happy day of birding for me, spotted this red-wattled lapwing near the fields. :)))&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check ou this week's Bird Photography Weekly #21.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://birdfreak.com/category/bird-photography-weekly/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://birdfreak.com/images/bpw-sharing-logo-wide.jpg" width="225"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-5890093422649192466?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/5890093422649192466/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=5890093422649192466' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/5890093422649192466'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/5890093422649192466'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/01/red-wattled-lapwing_23.html' title='Red-wattled lapwing'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SXmyhlZvQGI/AAAAAAAAAXA/KCDzJ5J1iHE/s72-c/January-1-2009+124.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-5401293798324289497</id><published>2009-01-23T17:33:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2009-01-23T17:34:51.388+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Blue-tailed bee eaters</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SXmyI2rjLeI/AAAAAAAAAW4/lQrorjkmxuM/s1600-h/January-1-2009+102.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 191px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SXmyI2rjLeI/AAAAAAAAAW4/lQrorjkmxuM/s320/January-1-2009+102.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294458702137601506" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These three beautiful birds were busy catching the insects in the paddy field. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-5401293798324289497?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/5401293798324289497/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=5401293798324289497' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/5401293798324289497'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/5401293798324289497'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/01/blue-tailed-bee-eaters.html' title='Blue-tailed bee eaters'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SXmyI2rjLeI/AAAAAAAAAW4/lQrorjkmxuM/s72-c/January-1-2009+102.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-6059092392885773066</id><published>2009-01-23T17:31:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2009-01-23T17:33:05.858+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Barn Swallow</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SXmxvOUP2fI/AAAAAAAAAWw/4yKeXfzfIHo/s1600-h/January-1-2009+092.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 207px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SXmxvOUP2fI/AAAAAAAAAWw/4yKeXfzfIHo/s320/January-1-2009+092.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294458261805718002" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This beautiful bird was perched and drying himself/herself after a morning bath. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-6059092392885773066?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/6059092392885773066/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=6059092392885773066' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/6059092392885773066'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/6059092392885773066'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/01/barn-swallow.html' title='Barn Swallow'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SXmxvOUP2fI/AAAAAAAAAWw/4yKeXfzfIHo/s72-c/January-1-2009+092.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-2175809392776792703</id><published>2009-01-14T10:06:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2009-01-14T10:07:08.930+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Lesser Golden-backed Woodpecker</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SW1rzCiDxmI/AAAAAAAAAWo/9jJ22icgNG8/s1600-h/January-1-2009+064.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 206px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SW1rzCiDxmI/AAAAAAAAAWo/9jJ22icgNG8/s320/January-1-2009+064.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291003661827425890" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another very beautiful bird. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-2175809392776792703?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/2175809392776792703/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=2175809392776792703' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/2175809392776792703'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/2175809392776792703'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/01/lesser-golden-backed-woodpecker.html' title='Lesser Golden-backed Woodpecker'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SW1rzCiDxmI/AAAAAAAAAWo/9jJ22icgNG8/s72-c/January-1-2009+064.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-8921529383904176615</id><published>2009-01-14T10:05:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2009-01-14T12:01:11.835+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Black-winged Stilts in flight</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SW1rk7l4aaI/AAAAAAAAAWg/E-zUz4DFbBE/s1600-h/January-1-2009+053.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 205px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SW1rk7l4aaI/AAAAAAAAAWg/E-zUz4DFbBE/s320/January-1-2009+053.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291003419446241698" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Very beautiful birds. :)))&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check the Bird Photography Weekly #20.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://birdfreak.com/category/bird-photography-weekly/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://birdfreak.com/images/bpw-sharing-logo-smaller.jpg" width="125"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-8921529383904176615?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/8921529383904176615/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=8921529383904176615' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/8921529383904176615'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/8921529383904176615'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/01/black-winged-stilts-in-flight.html' title='Black-winged Stilts in flight'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SW1rk7l4aaI/AAAAAAAAAWg/E-zUz4DFbBE/s72-c/January-1-2009+053.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-8576353981278181360</id><published>2009-01-14T09:56:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2009-01-14T09:58:12.817+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Little Grebe</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SW1pzbfWgfI/AAAAAAAAAWY/Is9LcAat6AA/s1600-h/January-1-2009+278.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 199px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SW1pzbfWgfI/AAAAAAAAAWY/Is9LcAat6AA/s320/January-1-2009+278.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291001469503701490" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A small and beautiful bird. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-8576353981278181360?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/8576353981278181360/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=8576353981278181360' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/8576353981278181360'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/8576353981278181360'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/01/little-grebe.html' title='Little Grebe'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SW1pzbfWgfI/AAAAAAAAAWY/Is9LcAat6AA/s72-c/January-1-2009+278.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-4793222229281244444</id><published>2009-01-14T09:55:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2009-01-14T09:56:23.939+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Spot-billed Duck</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SW1pUJ4aBwI/AAAAAAAAAWI/_Z7Uewp4zuc/s1600-h/January-1-2009+269.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 201px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SW1pUJ4aBwI/AAAAAAAAAWI/_Z7Uewp4zuc/s320/January-1-2009+269.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291000932201006850" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First time sighting and taking photo of this bird. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-4793222229281244444?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/4793222229281244444/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=4793222229281244444' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/4793222229281244444'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/4793222229281244444'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/01/spot-billed-duck.html' title='Spot-billed Duck'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SW1pUJ4aBwI/AAAAAAAAAWI/_Z7Uewp4zuc/s72-c/January-1-2009+269.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-4587160202606944502</id><published>2009-01-14T09:54:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2009-01-14T09:55:28.510+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Eurasian Coot</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SW1pIqcxXRI/AAAAAAAAAWA/3v2tqA2c90c/s1600-h/January-1-2009+241.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 196px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SW1pIqcxXRI/AAAAAAAAAWA/3v2tqA2c90c/s320/January-1-2009+241.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291000734785035538" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another beautiful bird. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-4587160202606944502?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/4587160202606944502/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=4587160202606944502' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/4587160202606944502'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/4587160202606944502'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/01/eurasian-coot.html' title='Eurasian Coot'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SW1pIqcxXRI/AAAAAAAAAWA/3v2tqA2c90c/s72-c/January-1-2009+241.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-2683819422338416688</id><published>2009-01-14T09:53:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2009-01-14T09:54:22.183+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Common Coot</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SW1oyq_4x7I/AAAAAAAAAV4/jNa64lDJv9Q/s1600-h/January-1-2009+240.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 185px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SW1oyq_4x7I/AAAAAAAAAV4/jNa64lDJv9Q/s320/January-1-2009+240.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291000356975200178" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A beautiful bird. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-2683819422338416688?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/2683819422338416688/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=2683819422338416688' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/2683819422338416688'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/2683819422338416688'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/01/common-coot.html' title='Common Coot'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SW1oyq_4x7I/AAAAAAAAAV4/jNa64lDJv9Q/s72-c/January-1-2009+240.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-1012015183092459082</id><published>2009-01-14T09:51:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2009-01-14T09:53:11.385+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Red-wattled Lapwing</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SW1ohOXQVcI/AAAAAAAAAVw/HFPnI9LhE7A/s1600-h/January-1-2009+124.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 217px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SW1ohOXQVcI/AAAAAAAAAVw/HFPnI9LhE7A/s320/January-1-2009+124.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291000057230808514" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Red-wattled Lapwing enjoying the sun. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-1012015183092459082?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/1012015183092459082/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=1012015183092459082' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/1012015183092459082'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/1012015183092459082'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/01/red-wattled-lapwing.html' title='Red-wattled Lapwing'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SW1ohOXQVcI/AAAAAAAAAVw/HFPnI9LhE7A/s72-c/January-1-2009+124.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-143184592617267280</id><published>2009-01-14T09:49:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2009-01-14T09:51:42.769+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Open-billed stork</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SW1oGnY1p5I/AAAAAAAAAVo/aPeUvrRp8So/s1600-h/January-1-2009+103.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 218px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SW1oGnY1p5I/AAAAAAAAAVo/aPeUvrRp8So/s320/January-1-2009+103.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290999600091867026" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An Open-billed stork standing near the paddy field.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-143184592617267280?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/143184592617267280/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=143184592617267280' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/143184592617267280'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/143184592617267280'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/01/open-billed-stork.html' title='Open-billed stork'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SW1oGnY1p5I/AAAAAAAAAVo/aPeUvrRp8So/s72-c/January-1-2009+103.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-8900206694123073320</id><published>2009-01-09T12:26:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2009-01-09T12:27:07.329+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Wild Pig</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SWb1JSPtKXI/AAAAAAAAAVg/H1Z7hIK_qwQ/s1600-h/IMG_9265_edited.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 250px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SWb1JSPtKXI/AAAAAAAAAVg/H1Z7hIK_qwQ/s320/IMG_9265_edited.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289184352258566514" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beautiful animal. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-8900206694123073320?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/8900206694123073320/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=8900206694123073320' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/8900206694123073320'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/8900206694123073320'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/01/wild-pig.html' title='Wild Pig'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SWb1JSPtKXI/AAAAAAAAAVg/H1Z7hIK_qwQ/s72-c/IMG_9265_edited.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-1517845561480753047</id><published>2009-01-09T12:24:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2009-01-09T12:25:56.271+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Black-winged stilts</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SWb037XLv9I/AAAAAAAAAVY/LoT52QBaCuQ/s1600-h/IMG_7730_edited.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 250px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SWb037XLv9I/AAAAAAAAAVY/LoT52QBaCuQ/s320/IMG_7730_edited.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289184054058139602" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beautiful birds. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-1517845561480753047?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/1517845561480753047/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=1517845561480753047' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/1517845561480753047'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/1517845561480753047'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/01/black-winged-stilts.html' title='Black-winged stilts'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SWb037XLv9I/AAAAAAAAAVY/LoT52QBaCuQ/s72-c/IMG_7730_edited.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-5554801036193000459</id><published>2009-01-09T12:23:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2009-01-09T12:24:36.699+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Paddyfield Pipit</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SWb0gj1aiYI/AAAAAAAAAVQ/ZDZSrYxBhZA/s1600-h/IMG_7325_edited.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 250px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SWb0gj1aiYI/AAAAAAAAAVQ/ZDZSrYxBhZA/s320/IMG_7325_edited.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289183652605495682" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The bird is singing. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-5554801036193000459?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/5554801036193000459/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=5554801036193000459' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/5554801036193000459'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/5554801036193000459'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/01/paddyfield-pipit.html' title='Paddyfield Pipit'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SWb0gj1aiYI/AAAAAAAAAVQ/ZDZSrYxBhZA/s72-c/IMG_7325_edited.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-8576223067594378740</id><published>2009-01-09T12:22:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2009-01-09T12:23:25.754+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Common Mynah</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SWb0P00__CI/AAAAAAAAAVI/189QZ44EyKA/s1600-h/IMG_6773.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SWb0P00__CI/AAAAAAAAAVI/189QZ44EyKA/s320/IMG_6773.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289183365109382178" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Happily resting for a few minutes in this tree. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-8576223067594378740?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/8576223067594378740/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=8576223067594378740' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/8576223067594378740'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/8576223067594378740'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/01/common-mynah.html' title='Common Mynah'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SWb0P00__CI/AAAAAAAAAVI/189QZ44EyKA/s72-c/IMG_6773.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-7434730236734359834</id><published>2009-01-09T12:20:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2009-01-09T12:22:04.396+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Spotted Dove</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SWbz9EiRZeI/AAAAAAAAAVA/Pulr_tt46LM/s1600-h/IMG_1999.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 194px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SWbz9EiRZeI/AAAAAAAAAVA/Pulr_tt46LM/s320/IMG_1999.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289183042908284386" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A beautiful bird. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-7434730236734359834?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/7434730236734359834/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=7434730236734359834' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/7434730236734359834'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/7434730236734359834'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/01/spotted-dove.html' title='Spotted Dove'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SWbz9EiRZeI/AAAAAAAAAVA/Pulr_tt46LM/s72-c/IMG_1999.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-5647263725457624005</id><published>2009-01-09T12:17:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2009-01-09T12:33:34.346+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Golden Oriole</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SWbzUnbKJfI/AAAAAAAAAU4/rd8j2zidaTg/s1600-h/IMG_1912_edited.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 250px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SWbzUnbKJfI/AAAAAAAAAU4/rd8j2zidaTg/s320/IMG_1912_edited.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289182347899053554" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the Eurasian Golden Oriole. This is one of the best photos I have got of this bird. :)))&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do visit Bird Photographer's Weekly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://birdfreak.com/category/bird-photography-weekly/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://birdfreak.com/images/bpw-sharing-logo-wide.jpg" width="225"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-5647263725457624005?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/5647263725457624005/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=5647263725457624005' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/5647263725457624005'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/5647263725457624005'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/01/golden-oriole.html' title='Golden Oriole'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SWbzUnbKJfI/AAAAAAAAAU4/rd8j2zidaTg/s72-c/IMG_1912_edited.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-1121026156847155112</id><published>2009-01-01T13:57:00.035+05:30</published><updated>2009-01-05T20:39:37.170+05:30</updated><title type='text'>My Trip to Pichavaram Mangroves</title><content type='html'>Pichavaram is the second largest mangrove forest in the world. Pichavaram is located in Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu. I visited this place recently for birdwatching and bird photography. I was not disappointed. The first bird that I saw was the Brahminy Kite (Haliastur indus). Another name for this bird is Red-backed Sea Eagle. What a beautiful bird! Amazing. These birds have disappeared in many places in Tamil Nadu. So I get to see and take photos of this bird only once or twice a year. They feed on dead fish and crabs. And they nest near the water and marshlands.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVyA70MUgOI/AAAAAAAAASI/Ye7SwqiF5nk/s1600-h/December-18-2008+280.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 194px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVyA70MUgOI/AAAAAAAAASI/Ye7SwqiF5nk/s320/December-18-2008+280.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286241827737075938" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After a few minutes in the car, I spotted the Open-billed storks (Anastomus oscitans), Little egret (Egretta garzetta), and Pond heron (Ardeola grayii). Beautiful. :))) Got out of the car to take some photos of them. Open billed storks are beautiful birds with white or off white colour with black colouration on the wings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVyDX9l5AlI/AAAAAAAAASQ/C0wpjj5Fln0/s1600-h/December-18-2008+051.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVyDX9l5AlI/AAAAAAAAASQ/C0wpjj5Fln0/s320/December-18-2008+051.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286244510319837778" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I saw a beautiful mongrel nearby. I love Indian dogs, mongrels, etc. :))) Though I did not take a photo of this one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I saw another beautiful bird in the paddy fields. I think it was a Broad-billed sandpiper (Limicola falcinellus). Was intently searching for food as I took the photo. )))&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVyEA5VRxDI/AAAAAAAAASY/95mvmKvFEis/s1600-h/December-18-2008+056.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVyEA5VRxDI/AAAAAAAAASY/95mvmKvFEis/s320/December-18-2008+056.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286245213551051826" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Afterwards, I reached the boating area where I saw three Barn swallows (Hirundo rustica). I was watching them for sometime and had my breakfast. Small, beautiful and colourful birds. :)))&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVyEbbotfzI/AAAAAAAAASg/YvJaUOs-ctQ/s1600-h/December-18-2008+083.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 228px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVyEbbotfzI/AAAAAAAAASg/YvJaUOs-ctQ/s320/December-18-2008+083.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286245669435965234" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then we hired a boat for a 2 hour trip to the mangrove forests. Below are some photos that I took of the mangroves. Beautiful, peaceful, serene. :)))&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVyGK-5FQyI/AAAAAAAAASo/Z8iaPvvS8u8/s1600-h/December-18-2008+150.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVyGK-5FQyI/AAAAAAAAASo/Z8iaPvvS8u8/s320/December-18-2008+150.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286247585865351970" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVyID7eQ4ZI/AAAAAAAAASw/BUuB7doObK8/s1600-h/December-18-2008+159.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVyID7eQ4ZI/AAAAAAAAASw/BUuB7doObK8/s320/December-18-2008+159.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286249663711732114" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We entered the small path through the mangroves. The only sound was the boatman giving us a talk about the size of the place, naming some of the plants in Tamil, and telling us when and where we might see the birds inside the mangroves. I saw a White-throated kingfisher flying in front of our boat. I heard many parakeets flying above the boat and nearby. Then I saw the Median egret (Egretta intermedia). I have never been this close to this egret and it was great. :)))&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVyJr95V3rI/AAAAAAAAAS4/9I8yJKKQaGE/s1600-h/December-18-2008+165.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVyJr95V3rI/AAAAAAAAAS4/9I8yJKKQaGE/s320/December-18-2008+165.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286251451068571314" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then we entered the mangrove caves. Beautiful. Great experience. See the photo below. The cave is of overhanging roots on all sides of us. Thrilling.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVyLyVuc6ZI/AAAAAAAAATA/KsU_CtLy30w/s1600-h/December-18-2008+172.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVyLyVuc6ZI/AAAAAAAAATA/KsU_CtLy30w/s320/December-18-2008+172.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286253759567817106" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After we came out of the cave I spotted the Blue-tailed bee eaters (Merops philippinus). They are such colourful, beautiful birds. :)))&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVyMQjp0cbI/AAAAAAAAATI/QwSaj7xpgcI/s1600-h/December-18-2008+188.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 197px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVyMQjp0cbI/AAAAAAAAATI/QwSaj7xpgcI/s320/December-18-2008+188.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286254278702559666" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then we spotted the Black-crowned night heron bathing. Again, I must say, I have never been this close to this bird till now. Beautiful bird. :)))&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVyNZjH0TcI/AAAAAAAAATQ/ZZuknb6hEVw/s1600-h/December-18-2008+176.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 270px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVyNZjH0TcI/AAAAAAAAATQ/ZZuknb6hEVw/s320/December-18-2008+176.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286255532690394562" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After this, we entered another mangrove forest cave. Here I took a photo of the flower of the mangrove plants.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVyNz9QvnVI/AAAAAAAAATY/ijzTJwcQf9A/s1600-h/December-18-2008+192.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVyNz9QvnVI/AAAAAAAAATY/ijzTJwcQf9A/s320/December-18-2008+192.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286255986383756626" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Painted Storks (Mycteria leucocephala). Yes, even they are found in large numbers in the winter season in this mangroves. I did not know this till now. Beautiful birds. :)))&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVyOSwPfMDI/AAAAAAAAATg/3jZXotpacxw/s1600-h/December-18-2008+211.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 206px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVyOSwPfMDI/AAAAAAAAATg/3jZXotpacxw/s320/December-18-2008+211.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286256515464769586" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last, but not the least I spotted Grey herons (Ardea cinerea) and a Grey Pelican (Pelecanus philippensis) flying overhead. This is a beautiful sight. :)))&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVyOlypY_hI/AAAAAAAAATo/EBeyxbxbLg4/s1600-h/December-18-2008+213.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVyOlypY_hI/AAAAAAAAATo/EBeyxbxbLg4/s320/December-18-2008+213.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286256842527800850" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After this wonderful trip of 2 hours, we reached the starting point. There is a watchtower from which we can see a lot of the mangrove area. From here I spotted some birds. The Common sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos), Little egret, Lesser sand plover (Charadrius mongolus), White-browed wagtail (Motacilla madaraspatensis), White-throated kingfisher (Halcyon smyrnensis), and Spotted dove (Streptopelia chinensis).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVyPPnWbjyI/AAAAAAAAATw/b8orX0PAFIA/s1600-h/December-18-2008+234.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 168px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVyPPnWbjyI/AAAAAAAAATw/b8orX0PAFIA/s320/December-18-2008+234.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286257561049992994" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVyP7e5MokI/AAAAAAAAAT4/0YmQrI61sMI/s1600-h/December-18-2008+243.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 206px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVyP7e5MokI/AAAAAAAAAT4/0YmQrI61sMI/s320/December-18-2008+243.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286258314694140482" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVyQS4fNoRI/AAAAAAAAAUA/-8nPfYoBaNA/s1600-h/December-18-2008+251.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 158px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVyQS4fNoRI/AAAAAAAAAUA/-8nPfYoBaNA/s320/December-18-2008+251.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286258716701466898" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVyQs2rV29I/AAAAAAAAAUI/7YYAveUCT2M/s1600-h/December-18-2008+257.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 202px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVyQs2rV29I/AAAAAAAAAUI/7YYAveUCT2M/s320/December-18-2008+257.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286259162892065746" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVyQ-p0CXgI/AAAAAAAAAUQ/T_tUCG8sa6g/s1600-h/December-18-2008+260.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 187px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVyQ-p0CXgI/AAAAAAAAAUQ/T_tUCG8sa6g/s320/December-18-2008+260.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286259468676521474" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We had our lunch here. There is a canteen here where there are some tables put up for having a relatively quiet, peaceful lunch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the way back I spotted the Red wattled lapwings (Vanellus indicus), Lesser pied kingfisher (Ceryle rudis), and Indian roller (Coracias benghalensis). Beautiful and colourful birds. :)))&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVySH6jAPHI/AAAAAAAAAUY/sfW0u1X-MvY/s1600-h/December-18-2008+289.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 182px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVySH6jAPHI/AAAAAAAAAUY/sfW0u1X-MvY/s320/December-18-2008+289.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286260727298931826" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVySckh26AI/AAAAAAAAAUg/marydrwNOB8/s1600-h/December-18-2008+294.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 204px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVySckh26AI/AAAAAAAAAUg/marydrwNOB8/s320/December-18-2008+294.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286261082165798914" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVyS18Yu3vI/AAAAAAAAAUo/VWu_AO2smDU/s1600-h/December-18-2008+295.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVyS18Yu3vI/AAAAAAAAAUo/VWu_AO2smDU/s320/December-18-2008+295.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286261518066704114" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have taken a photo of this beautiful lamb running. :)))&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVyTt9ie1uI/AAAAAAAAAUw/Vy8X0S-mZyE/s1600-h/December-18-2008+273.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 229px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVyTt9ie1uI/AAAAAAAAAUw/Vy8X0S-mZyE/s320/December-18-2008+273.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286262480448706274" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A very satisfying trip. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-1121026156847155112?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/1121026156847155112/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=1121026156847155112' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/1121026156847155112'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/1121026156847155112'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2009/01/my-trip-to-pichavaram-mangroves.html' title='My Trip to Pichavaram Mangroves'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVyA70MUgOI/AAAAAAAAASI/Ye7SwqiF5nk/s72-c/December-18-2008+280.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-7443466359354591104</id><published>2008-12-28T09:56:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-28T09:57:48.312+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Black crowned Night heron</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVcAF8i2meI/AAAAAAAAARw/JwuOndXfDTQ/s1600-h/December-18-2008+178.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 218px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVcAF8i2meI/AAAAAAAAARw/JwuOndXfDTQ/s320/December-18-2008+178.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5284692789894224354" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Black-crowned night heron splashing in the mangroves. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-7443466359354591104?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/7443466359354591104/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=7443466359354591104' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/7443466359354591104'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/7443466359354591104'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2008/12/black-crowned-night-heron.html' title='Black crowned Night heron'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVcAF8i2meI/AAAAAAAAARw/JwuOndXfDTQ/s72-c/December-18-2008+178.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-5676406701125830009</id><published>2008-12-28T09:54:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-28T09:56:16.672+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Open billed stork</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVb_pFngSjI/AAAAAAAAARo/HNJI6_lTeOk/s1600-h/December-18-2008+288.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 195px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVb_pFngSjI/AAAAAAAAARo/HNJI6_lTeOk/s320/December-18-2008+288.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5284692294113446450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open billed stork is a winter visitor. And they were looking for food in the paddy fields. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-5676406701125830009?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/5676406701125830009/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=5676406701125830009' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/5676406701125830009'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/5676406701125830009'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2008/12/open-billed-stork.html' title='Open billed stork'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVb_pFngSjI/AAAAAAAAARo/HNJI6_lTeOk/s72-c/December-18-2008+288.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-6106272734174790453</id><published>2008-12-28T09:52:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-28T09:54:07.358+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Sandpiper</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVb_MhddgtI/AAAAAAAAARg/a6mQTMPphxw/s1600-h/December-18-2008+283.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 203px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVb_MhddgtI/AAAAAAAAARg/a6mQTMPphxw/s320/December-18-2008+283.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5284691803371307730" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sandpiper in the field. There was lot of water in the field due to recent floods in the region.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-6106272734174790453?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/6106272734174790453/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=6106272734174790453' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/6106272734174790453'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/6106272734174790453'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2008/12/sandpiper_28.html' title='Sandpiper'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVb_MhddgtI/AAAAAAAAARg/a6mQTMPphxw/s72-c/December-18-2008+283.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-371203760602671823</id><published>2008-12-28T09:51:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-28T09:52:22.520+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Sand Plover</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVb-4mHSobI/AAAAAAAAARY/nhVQzl7NP58/s1600-h/December-18-2008+250.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 202px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVb-4mHSobI/AAAAAAAAARY/nhVQzl7NP58/s320/December-18-2008+250.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5284691461023113650" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sand plover looking for food. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-371203760602671823?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/371203760602671823/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=371203760602671823' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/371203760602671823'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/371203760602671823'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2008/12/sand-plover.html' title='Sand Plover'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVb-4mHSobI/AAAAAAAAARY/nhVQzl7NP58/s72-c/December-18-2008+250.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-5035951497604795100</id><published>2008-12-28T09:49:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-28T09:51:16.664+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Intermediate egret</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVb-hxsXUII/AAAAAAAAARQ/-7acwWB59bc/s1600-h/December-18-2008+241.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 244px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVb-hxsXUII/AAAAAAAAARQ/-7acwWB59bc/s320/December-18-2008+241.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5284691068994408578" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A beautiful bird standing still in a puddle of rain water. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-5035951497604795100?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/5035951497604795100/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=5035951497604795100' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/5035951497604795100'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/5035951497604795100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2008/12/intermediate-egret.html' title='Intermediate egret'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SVb-hxsXUII/AAAAAAAAARQ/-7acwWB59bc/s72-c/December-18-2008+241.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-4967101425361406079</id><published>2008-12-22T10:44:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-22T10:46:12.012+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Grey spotted owlet</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SU8iffNT_vI/AAAAAAAAARI/NCOMuwQJyXE/s1600-h/October-25-2008+526.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 203px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SU8iffNT_vI/AAAAAAAAARI/NCOMuwQJyXE/s320/October-25-2008+526.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282478812277505778" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A beautiful, alert bird. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-4967101425361406079?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/4967101425361406079/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=4967101425361406079' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/4967101425361406079'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/4967101425361406079'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2008/12/grey-spotted-owlet.html' title='Grey spotted owlet'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SU8iffNT_vI/AAAAAAAAARI/NCOMuwQJyXE/s72-c/October-25-2008+526.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-1939772760536045801</id><published>2008-12-22T10:43:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-22T10:44:21.947+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Shikra</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SU8iG0Ph7OI/AAAAAAAAARA/5BywpComLTw/s1600-h/November-30-2008+029.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 202px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SU8iG0Ph7OI/AAAAAAAAARA/5BywpComLTw/s320/November-30-2008+029.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282478388427222242" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beautiful bird in flight. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-1939772760536045801?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/1939772760536045801/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=1939772760536045801' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/1939772760536045801'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/1939772760536045801'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2008/12/shikra.html' title='Shikra'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SU8iG0Ph7OI/AAAAAAAAARA/5BywpComLTw/s72-c/November-30-2008+029.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-1649069985851839115</id><published>2008-12-22T10:36:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-22T10:43:16.224+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Cattle. We hate Leather</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SU8hU0m4hYI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/212EyJIP2M0/s1600-h/December-18-2008+137.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SU8hU0m4hYI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/212EyJIP2M0/s320/December-18-2008+137.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282477529531712898" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These cattle were roaming freely in the backwaters. But for how long? As soon as they become old, they will be packed off to a leather factory for slaughter. Though not all farmers are into this practice. After all the effort they have put in to till the land, after being helpful to farmers, this is the return they get.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shame on us to allow this to go on.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-1649069985851839115?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/1649069985851839115/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=1649069985851839115' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/1649069985851839115'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/1649069985851839115'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2008/12/cattle-we-hate-leather.html' title='Cattle. We hate Leather'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SU8hU0m4hYI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/212EyJIP2M0/s72-c/December-18-2008+137.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-2385304981391037945</id><published>2008-12-22T10:35:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-22T10:36:50.590+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Sandpiper</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SU8gS5svbFI/AAAAAAAAAQw/rsBcAzDNfP4/s1600-h/December-18-2008+052.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 190px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SU8gS5svbFI/AAAAAAAAAQw/rsBcAzDNfP4/s320/December-18-2008+052.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282476397027093586" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally spotted this bird this winter season. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-2385304981391037945?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/2385304981391037945/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=2385304981391037945' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/2385304981391037945'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/2385304981391037945'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2008/12/sandpiper.html' title='Sandpiper'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SU8gS5svbFI/AAAAAAAAAQw/rsBcAzDNfP4/s72-c/December-18-2008+052.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-364452914627588690</id><published>2008-12-22T10:32:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-22T10:35:23.524+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Butterfly</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SU8fzWPgqWI/AAAAAAAAAQo/FML1Y2Q_cBE/s1600-h/December-12-2008+145.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 205px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SU8fzWPgqWI/AAAAAAAAAQo/FML1Y2Q_cBE/s320/December-12-2008+145.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282475854933305698" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A beautiful butterfly. Have been trying for almost two years to take a photo of this particular butterfly.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-364452914627588690?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/364452914627588690/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=364452914627588690' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/364452914627588690'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/364452914627588690'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2008/12/butterfly_22.html' title='Butterfly'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SU8fzWPgqWI/AAAAAAAAAQo/FML1Y2Q_cBE/s72-c/December-12-2008+145.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-1870032429996598119</id><published>2008-12-22T10:27:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-22T10:32:30.121+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Purple rumped sunbird</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SU8edvgs0PI/AAAAAAAAAQg/Ll4V7NjvG9o/s1600-h/December-3-2008+294.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 204px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SU8edvgs0PI/AAAAAAAAAQg/Ll4V7NjvG9o/s320/December-3-2008+294.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282474384247542002" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saw this beautiful bird recently. Very cooperative that day. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-1870032429996598119?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/1870032429996598119/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=1870032429996598119' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/1870032429996598119'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/1870032429996598119'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2008/12/purple-rumped-sunbird.html' title='Purple rumped sunbird'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SU8edvgs0PI/AAAAAAAAAQg/Ll4V7NjvG9o/s72-c/December-3-2008+294.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-7702113318401327376</id><published>2008-12-14T09:20:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-14T09:22:32.304+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Butterfly</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SUSC3J-Hw7I/AAAAAAAAAQU/g1YOHVk5j8k/s1600-h/Picture12+070.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SUSC3J-Hw7I/AAAAAAAAAQU/g1YOHVk5j8k/s320/Picture12+070.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279488547265954738" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A beautiful butterfly. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-7702113318401327376?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/7702113318401327376/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=7702113318401327376' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/7702113318401327376'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/7702113318401327376'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2008/12/butterfly.html' title='Butterfly'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SUSC3J-Hw7I/AAAAAAAAAQU/g1YOHVk5j8k/s72-c/Picture12+070.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-5785734517289711461</id><published>2008-12-14T09:17:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-14T09:20:14.889+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Dragon fly</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SUSCJ3deKEI/AAAAAAAAAQM/3CejT3M1isM/s1600-h/October-25-2008+189.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SUSCJ3deKEI/AAAAAAAAAQM/3CejT3M1isM/s320/October-25-2008+189.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279487769203058754" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The rainy season is almost over. But I can still see these insects in our place. They are very beneficial as they help in the control of mosquito population. They eat the mosquito larvae.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-5785734517289711461?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/5785734517289711461/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=5785734517289711461' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/5785734517289711461'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/5785734517289711461'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2008/12/dragon-fly.html' title='Dragon fly'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SUSCJ3deKEI/AAAAAAAAAQM/3CejT3M1isM/s72-c/October-25-2008+189.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-7921194704276827496</id><published>2008-12-14T09:14:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-14T09:17:32.359+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Pigeon</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SUSBaw1yBnI/AAAAAAAAAQE/EaW6_PSbGis/s1600-h/Picture12+067.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SUSBaw1yBnI/AAAAAAAAAQE/EaW6_PSbGis/s320/Picture12+067.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279486959972124274" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This pigeon came to our home and I was able to take this photo before he/she flew away. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-7921194704276827496?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/7921194704276827496/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=7921194704276827496' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/7921194704276827496'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/7921194704276827496'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2008/12/pigeon.html' title='Pigeon'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SUSBaw1yBnI/AAAAAAAAAQE/EaW6_PSbGis/s72-c/Picture12+067.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-2742946712078851846</id><published>2008-12-14T09:08:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-14T09:13:55.292+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Goat</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SUSAHlcE7QI/AAAAAAAAAP8/KIsunvgpc6I/s1600-h/October-25-2008+172.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SUSAHlcE7QI/AAAAAAAAAP8/KIsunvgpc6I/s320/October-25-2008+172.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279485530982378754" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This beautiful animal was grazing near the sanctuary.:)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-2742946712078851846?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/2742946712078851846/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=2742946712078851846' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/2742946712078851846'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/2742946712078851846'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2008/12/goat.html' title='Goat'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SUSAHlcE7QI/AAAAAAAAAP8/KIsunvgpc6I/s72-c/October-25-2008+172.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-5241469670441335642</id><published>2008-12-14T09:04:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-14T09:07:57.614+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Wild flowers</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SUR_TZCwknI/AAAAAAAAAP0/kUZ1-pPAcls/s1600-h/October-25-2008+079.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SUR_TZCwknI/AAAAAAAAAP0/kUZ1-pPAcls/s320/October-25-2008+079.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279484634301764210" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saw these flowers growing on the ground when I went to Vedanthangal Bird Sanctuary. There were so many of them growing.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-5241469670441335642?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/5241469670441335642/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=5241469670441335642' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/5241469670441335642'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/5241469670441335642'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2008/12/wild-flowers.html' title='Wild flowers'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SUR_TZCwknI/AAAAAAAAAP0/kUZ1-pPAcls/s72-c/October-25-2008+079.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-6299997593397007687</id><published>2008-12-10T12:29:00.004+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-10T12:34:23.402+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Hoopoe</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST9pJjsGSfI/AAAAAAAAAPc/UQ82PGgzkUU/s1600-h/December-3-2008+150.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 248px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST9pJjsGSfI/AAAAAAAAAPc/UQ82PGgzkUU/s320/December-3-2008+150.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278052901221452274" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A very beautiful bird. What I enjoy the most is being able to get close to the birds. I would like to think that they have now accepted me. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-6299997593397007687?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/6299997593397007687/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=6299997593397007687' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/6299997593397007687'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/6299997593397007687'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2008/12/hoopoe.html' title='Hoopoe'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST9pJjsGSfI/AAAAAAAAAPc/UQ82PGgzkUU/s72-c/December-3-2008+150.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-6533596814109164390</id><published>2008-12-10T12:21:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-10T12:24:30.715+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Indian Treepie</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST9nOg0PiNI/AAAAAAAAAPU/x0iGck0rYyI/s1600-h/December-6-2008+094.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 230px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST9nOg0PiNI/AAAAAAAAAPU/x0iGck0rYyI/s320/December-6-2008+094.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278050787326396626" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am happy to say that I got this close to this bird. I took this photo with my new camera Canon EOS 1000D. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-6533596814109164390?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/6533596814109164390/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=6533596814109164390' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/6533596814109164390'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/6533596814109164390'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2008/12/indian-treepie_10.html' title='Indian Treepie'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST9nOg0PiNI/AAAAAAAAAPU/x0iGck0rYyI/s72-c/December-6-2008+094.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-3342266370904294657</id><published>2008-12-10T12:01:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-10T12:08:00.436+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Flying fox</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST9ipK43CRI/AAAAAAAAAPM/YuYkgaIUSVA/s1600-h/December-6-2008+085.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 206px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST9ipK43CRI/AAAAAAAAAPM/YuYkgaIUSVA/s320/December-6-2008+085.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278045747738511634" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Flying fox is also known as fruit bat. But they have become rare in the cities due to lack of tree cover. There is also a lot of superstition regarding these species. They are considered bad omen. Hopefully, in the near future they will be more respected and loved. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-3342266370904294657?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/3342266370904294657/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=3342266370904294657' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/3342266370904294657'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/3342266370904294657'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2008/12/flying-fox.html' title='Flying fox'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST9ipK43CRI/AAAAAAAAAPM/YuYkgaIUSVA/s72-c/December-6-2008+085.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-122388801356197247</id><published>2008-12-10T11:50:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-10T12:01:38.097+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Small frog?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST9gQF1bsCI/AAAAAAAAAPE/2p5Uq9g7iYk/s1600-h/December-3-2008+274.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 215px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST9gQF1bsCI/AAAAAAAAAPE/2p5Uq9g7iYk/s320/December-3-2008+274.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278043117861974050" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Very nice frog. But I do not know the name of this species. He is camouflaged with the background.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-122388801356197247?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/122388801356197247/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=122388801356197247' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/122388801356197247'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/122388801356197247'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2008/12/small-frog.html' title='Small frog?'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST9gQF1bsCI/AAAAAAAAAPE/2p5Uq9g7iYk/s72-c/December-3-2008+274.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-4136735585795871051</id><published>2008-12-10T11:46:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-10T11:50:34.558+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Asian Koel (male)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST9fO7dJt1I/AAAAAAAAAO8/NwWyOM4s4mQ/s1600-h/December-3-2008+232.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 202px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST9fO7dJt1I/AAAAAAAAAO8/NwWyOM4s4mQ/s320/December-3-2008+232.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278041998384281426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recently, I saw him and the female Koel on the ground looking for food. He is also picking up a leaf which is when I took this photo. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-4136735585795871051?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/4136735585795871051/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=4136735585795871051' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/4136735585795871051'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/4136735585795871051'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2008/12/asian-koel-male_10.html' title='Asian Koel (male)'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST9fO7dJt1I/AAAAAAAAAO8/NwWyOM4s4mQ/s72-c/December-3-2008+232.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-1658331156162983419</id><published>2008-12-08T18:34:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-08T18:36:53.491+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Crimson-Breasted Barbet</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST0bpNSJYSI/AAAAAAAAAO0/R711jsRNmHA/s1600-h/IMG_6104.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST0bpNSJYSI/AAAAAAAAAO0/R711jsRNmHA/s320/IMG_6104.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277404733102448930" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I loved the way he llooked out of his nest hole. :))) Was lucky enough to take this photo.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-1658331156162983419?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/1658331156162983419/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=1658331156162983419' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/1658331156162983419'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/1658331156162983419'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2008/12/crimson-breasted-barbet.html' title='Crimson-Breasted Barbet'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST0bpNSJYSI/AAAAAAAAAO0/R711jsRNmHA/s72-c/IMG_6104.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-2336512723301972847</id><published>2008-12-08T18:28:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-08T18:34:23.401+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Lesser Golden-Backed Woodpecker</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST0aZUXfVGI/AAAAAAAAAOs/fJAiF7NH6uQ/s1600-h/IMG_5906.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST0aZUXfVGI/AAAAAAAAAOs/fJAiF7NH6uQ/s320/IMG_5906.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277403360614372450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Very beautiful bird. Love to watch them. :))) Recently saw them foraging on the ground too along with Hoopoes and squirrells.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-2336512723301972847?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/2336512723301972847/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=2336512723301972847' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/2336512723301972847'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/2336512723301972847'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2008/12/lesser-golden-backed-woodpecker_08.html' title='Lesser Golden-Backed Woodpecker'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST0aZUXfVGI/AAAAAAAAAOs/fJAiF7NH6uQ/s72-c/IMG_5906.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-5495329020838767643</id><published>2008-12-08T18:22:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-08T18:27:49.382+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Common Mynah</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST0ZHJfenAI/AAAAAAAAAOk/SdMQgS12YWU/s1600-h/IMG_5652.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST0ZHJfenAI/AAAAAAAAAOk/SdMQgS12YWU/s320/IMG_5652.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277401948945816578" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A beautiful bird, sings wonderfully, has many different bird calls. I have frequently seen them nodding their their head up and down while singing. :))) This is very nice to watch.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-5495329020838767643?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/5495329020838767643/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=5495329020838767643' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/5495329020838767643'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/5495329020838767643'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2008/12/common-mynah.html' title='Common Mynah'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST0ZHJfenAI/AAAAAAAAAOk/SdMQgS12YWU/s72-c/IMG_5652.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-1052048727579059328</id><published>2008-12-08T18:16:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-08T18:20:17.193+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Sparrow Hawk</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST0XqiUKr2I/AAAAAAAAAOc/I-e7a5uAKyU/s1600-h/IMG_5557.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST0XqiUKr2I/AAAAAAAAAOc/I-e7a5uAKyU/s320/IMG_5557.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277400357881425762" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a very beautiful bird. I love to watch them. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-1052048727579059328?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/1052048727579059328/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=1052048727579059328' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/1052048727579059328'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/1052048727579059328'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2008/12/sparrow-hawk.html' title='Sparrow Hawk'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST0XqiUKr2I/AAAAAAAAAOc/I-e7a5uAKyU/s72-c/IMG_5557.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-2290250704232459587</id><published>2008-12-08T18:12:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-08T18:20:54.597+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Magpie Robin (male)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST0WowpUxvI/AAAAAAAAAOU/5RVNt8LHDAM/s1600-h/IMG_5512.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST0WowpUxvI/AAAAAAAAAOU/5RVNt8LHDAM/s320/IMG_5512.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277399227856897778" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another beautiful male bird with a beautiful voice. A shy bird too. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-2290250704232459587?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/2290250704232459587/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=2290250704232459587' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/2290250704232459587'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/2290250704232459587'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2008/12/magpoie-robin-male.html' title='Magpie Robin (male)'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST0WowpUxvI/AAAAAAAAAOU/5RVNt8LHDAM/s72-c/IMG_5512.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-2557468594257707577</id><published>2008-12-08T18:07:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-08T18:12:12.273+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Asian Koel (male)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST0VqGTMNNI/AAAAAAAAAOM/D0kOFU3aspo/s1600-h/IMG_3612.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST0VqGTMNNI/AAAAAAAAAOM/D0kOFU3aspo/s320/IMG_3612.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277398151337882834" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A beautiful black bird. Very shy. Can be heard singing during rainy season. Has a beautiful voice. Sometimes, when I have to work early in the morning, it is great to hear his voice. Refreshes me and keeps me awake. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-2557468594257707577?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/2557468594257707577/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=2557468594257707577' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/2557468594257707577'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/2557468594257707577'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2008/12/asian-koel-male.html' title='Asian Koel (male)'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST0VqGTMNNI/AAAAAAAAAOM/D0kOFU3aspo/s72-c/IMG_3612.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-5017606156822122812</id><published>2008-12-08T18:04:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-08T18:07:44.988+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Yellow-Billed Babblers</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST0UuNIShTI/AAAAAAAAAOE/YvgB6IuJnH8/s1600-h/IMG_3536.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST0UuNIShTI/AAAAAAAAAOE/YvgB6IuJnH8/s320/IMG_3536.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277397122379056434" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These birds are so beautiful. They were preening each other. I just recently learnt the term "allopreening". :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-5017606156822122812?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/5017606156822122812/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=5017606156822122812' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/5017606156822122812'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/5017606156822122812'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2008/12/yellow-billed-babblers.html' title='Yellow-Billed Babblers'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST0UuNIShTI/AAAAAAAAAOE/YvgB6IuJnH8/s72-c/IMG_3536.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-2539509787188373052</id><published>2008-12-08T18:00:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-08T18:04:17.810+05:30</updated><title type='text'>White-breasted Kingfisher</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST0T1ENWEDI/AAAAAAAAAN8/W6miKsDBFX8/s1600-h/IMG_3440.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST0T1ENWEDI/AAAAAAAAAN8/W6miKsDBFX8/s320/IMG_3440.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277396140731797554" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I always love to see them. But they are so shy. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-2539509787188373052?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/2539509787188373052/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=2539509787188373052' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/2539509787188373052'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/2539509787188373052'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2008/12/white-breasted-kingfisher.html' title='White-breasted Kingfisher'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST0T1ENWEDI/AAAAAAAAAN8/W6miKsDBFX8/s72-c/IMG_3440.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-5437028701768504084</id><published>2008-12-08T17:53:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-08T17:59:26.460+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Indian treepie</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST0STKwuu6I/AAAAAAAAAN0/C1B_HT4MrBE/s1600-h/IMG_3371.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST0STKwuu6I/AAAAAAAAAN0/C1B_HT4MrBE/s320/IMG_3371.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277394458863647650" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whenever I go on these birdwatching and bird photography trips these birds always follow me around but just out of sight. :))) They enjoy this game very much. The only way that I know these birds are nearby is that they periodically call out. So I was thrilled to spot this bird on this trip. This one graciously posed for me. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-5437028701768504084?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/5437028701768504084/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=5437028701768504084' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/5437028701768504084'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/5437028701768504084'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2008/12/indian-treepie.html' title='Indian treepie'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST0STKwuu6I/AAAAAAAAAN0/C1B_HT4MrBE/s72-c/IMG_3371.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-6135442599162881319</id><published>2008-12-08T17:46:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-08T17:53:11.631+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Lesser golden-backed woodpecker</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST0Qqgh29eI/AAAAAAAAANs/PgEOWG7ddzw/s1600-h/IMG_3239.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST0Qqgh29eI/AAAAAAAAANs/PgEOWG7ddzw/s320/IMG_3239.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277392660820588002" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I spotted this beautful bird a few months back. I think this is a male bird. The female bird was also nearby. They were both looking for food, but stopped their activities to pose for me. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-6135442599162881319?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/6135442599162881319/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=6135442599162881319' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/6135442599162881319'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/6135442599162881319'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2008/12/lesser-golden-backed-woodpecker.html' title='Lesser golden-backed woodpecker'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/ST0Qqgh29eI/AAAAAAAAANs/PgEOWG7ddzw/s72-c/IMG_3239.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-9035307244675722188</id><published>2008-10-31T19:22:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2008-10-31T19:24:14.378+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Pea Blue Butterfly</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SQsN6vRKywI/AAAAAAAAANg/HZjxep0HeC8/s1600-h/October-25-2008+165.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SQsN6vRKywI/AAAAAAAAANg/HZjxep0HeC8/s320/October-25-2008+165.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263315892284607234" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Butterflies of India. :)))&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-9035307244675722188?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/9035307244675722188/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=9035307244675722188' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/9035307244675722188'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/9035307244675722188'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2008/10/pea-blue-butterfly.html' title='Pea Blue Butterfly'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SQsN6vRKywI/AAAAAAAAANg/HZjxep0HeC8/s72-c/October-25-2008+165.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-2565573114920408754</id><published>2008-10-31T19:11:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-08T18:20:41.830+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Crab</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SQsLjagcz6I/AAAAAAAAANY/uSDPiAZf--g/s1600-h/October-25-2008+009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SQsLjagcz6I/AAAAAAAAANY/uSDPiAZf--g/s320/October-25-2008+009.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263313292551311266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Very beautiful crab. :)))&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5152376033427244717-2565573114920408754?l=picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/feeds/2565573114920408754/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5152376033427244717&amp;postID=2565573114920408754' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/2565573114920408754'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5152376033427244717/posts/default/2565573114920408754'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://picturesofbirds-tropical.blogspot.com/2008/10/crab.html' title='Crab'/><author><name>animtreebird</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16247082838471011419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SQsLjagcz6I/AAAAAAAAANY/uSDPiAZf--g/s72-c/October-25-2008+009.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152376033427244717.post-4213279305962438398</id><published>2008-10-31T19:09:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2008-10-31T19:17:34.645+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Garden Lizard</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFPjkXP-qbo/SQsK6AN8quI/AAAAAAAAANQ/G7JYpAvoz6E/s1600-h/IMG_5231.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; 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