Project Yellow Bellied Prinia & Lesser Coucal

By sheewai on Dec 29, 2009 in Creative works, Featured, Photography, Videography

So its the raining season and one of the most difficult time to do this project – wet, poor lighting and…mmm the lightning! but still this is also when the birds come out to play especially after the rain – here in this area where you can find acres of grass field and as much as 5ft tall. Loads of wild life right inside the grass fields – insects, snakes, frogs yeah and birds! particularly the ‘Yellow Bellied Prinia’ aka YbP.

It wasn’t so difficult to spot the YbP, she loves to sing and her melodies are really something to enjoy. We have this wonderful system given from God – that is the ‘eyes – so beautifully created we can spot pratically anything so when the YbP sneaks out from the maze of reeds or sedges we’ll spot it…yeah!

Still this small beauti is illusive – she will dart right into or fly above the grass fields from any slightest movement from me. So i’ve to be camouflage and mostly be a still ‘mime – artist’ which i’ve quite acustom to maybe even master it…wow! again YbP she is illusive and i need to lure her out: these grass fields have a slight uneven top and there is always taller grass stalk – thats where i want the YbP to be. You can find a fitting one with a good colour Bg…yeah! Now comes the lure: YbP calls, i got it using a recorded calls. Camera settings for BiF – yeah! Again i must say its always not succesfull…luring her that is…