What will almost certainly be a quiet little year - Soukous 2019

[Soukous]

#226 - Purple Swamphen - Porphyrio porphyrio

Keoladeo Ghana / Bharatpur, India. Nov 2019

 

 

 

 

[Soukous]

#227 - Indian Pond Heron - Ardeola grayii

Keoladeo Ghana / Bharatpur, Indoa. Nov 2019

 

 

 

 

and another one, from Shahpura this time

 

[Soukous]

#228 - Common or Eurasian Hoopoe - Upupa epops

Keoladeo Ghana / Bharatpur, India. Nov 2019

 

 

 

[Soukous]

#229 - Grey Wagtail - Motacilla cinerea

Keoladeo Ghana / Bharatpur, India. Nov 2019

 

 

 

[Soukous]

#230 - Lesser Whistling-ducks - Dendrocygna javanica

Keoladeo Ghana / Bharatpur, India. Nov 2019

 

 

 

 

[Soukous]

#231 - Little Cormorant - Phalacrocorax niger 

Keoladeo Ghana / Bharatpur, India. Nov 2019

 

 

[xelas]

Maybe not as many as you have hoped for, but still enough to get you ver the #300, @Soukous.

 

Martin, a technical question: it looks like you have had plenty of sun yet some of the photos looks grainy? Any specific reason for this (asking to prepare myself for India next year ... but you know that already ).

[Soukous]

53 minutes ago, xelas said:

Maybe not as many as you have hoped for, but still enough to get you ver the #300, @Soukous.

 

Martin, a technical question: it looks like you have had plenty of sun yet some of the photos looks grainy? Any specific reason for this (asking to prepare myself for India next year ... but you know that already ).

 

If only that was true. I listed 128 species, but did not get photos of them all; and some are duplicates of birds seen in UK and Africa. 

 

There are 2 main reasons for the grainy photos; most common one was high ISO. Yes there was hazy sunshine, but several birds were in deep shadow amongst bushes so the ISO cranked up.

The other reason is huge cropping. Some birds were far away and only about 5% of the shot, when I cropped a lot of noise came with it. This was partly due to the fact that the air was not very clean.

Luckily for next year, Madame Soukous was in and around Goa while I was in the north and the air there was clear.

[Soukous]

#232 - Purple Heron - Ardea pupurea

Keoladeo Ghana / Bharatpur, India. Nov 2019

 

 

 

[Soukous]

#233 - Pied Bushchat - Saxicola caprata

Keoladeo Ghana / Bharatpur, India. Nov 2019

 

 

 

[Soukous]

#234 - Red-vented Bulbul - Pycnonotus cafer

Seen in Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh & Madhya Pradesh. Nov 2019

 

 

 

[Soukous]

#235 - Painted Stork - Mycteria leucocephala

Keoladeo Ghana / Bharatpur, India. Nov 2019

 

 

 

 

Edited November 24, 2019 by Soukous

[Soukous]

#236 -  Oriental Darter - Anhinga melanogaster

Keoladeo Ghana / Bharatpur, India. Nov 2019

 

 

[Soukous]

#237 - Indian Silverbill - Euodice malabarica

Keoladeo Ghana / Bharatpur, India. Nov 2019

 

 

Kuno Palpur

 

 

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#238 -  Spotted Owlet - Athene brama

Keoladeo Ghana / Bharatpur, Ranthambhore, Shahpura

 

 

 

 

 

[Soukous]

#239 -  Sarus Crane - Grus antigone

Keoladeo Ghana / Bharatpur, India. Nov 2019

 

 

 

[Soukous]

#240 -  Purple Sunbird - Cinnyris asiaticus. all males in eclipse plumage.

Keoladeo Ghana / Bharatpur, India. Nov 2019.

 

 

and Ranthambhore

 

 

 

[Soukous]

#241 - Striated Heron - Butorides striata

Keoladeo Ghana / Bharatpur, India. Nov 2019

 

 

 

Edited November 24, 2019 by Soukous

[Soukous]

#242 - Indian Robin - Saxicoloides fulicatus

Keoladeo Ghana / Bharatpur, India. Nov 2019

 

 

 

[Soukous]

#243 - House Crow - Corvus splendens

Agra, India. Nov 2019

 

 

[michael-ibk]

Love the Sarus crane, what a majestic bird.

[Soukous]

#244 - Common Myna - Acridotheres tristis

Keoladeo Ghana / Bharatpur, India. Nov 2019

 

 

[Soukous]

#245 - Black-necked Stork - Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus

Keoladeo Ghana / Bharatpur, India. Nov 2019

 

 

 

[Soukous]

# 246 - Asian Pied Starling - Gracupica contra

Keoladeo Ghana / Bharatpur, India. Nov 2019

 

 

[Soukous]

#247 - Asian Openbill - Anastomus oscitans

Keoladeo Ghana / Bharatpur, India. Nov 2019