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…

Oh yes…. what about the ‘Lesser Coucal? well one at a time bro…one at a time!

To be continue….

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aka Red wattled lapwing – what a wonderful bird, she has this ‘red strip facial skin & black tipped red bill, cold sandy greyish brown with whitish remainder of underparts’..describe by Craig Robson.
I went looking for this bird (one of my earlier outing) and I was ready to be a mime statue cause this bird is really shy – my work is to photograph the ‘taking off’ flight from the lapwing. Their long legs make it a beautiful ‘take off’ expression yeah?! If possible but impossible task also the landing…ahem! well anything can happen right?!

For my first learning task: the canon 1D mark III is the ‘Al Servo AF’ and FPS (frame per sec.) and the lapwings bird is my ‘lifer’. Before this I will have to experience stalking the bird, well – learning their behavior first, then click click..yeah sound easy! Never did i realize that I found them – nesting! arrrh!
You cant approach birds that are nesting – rightly you should leave them alone unless you are doing a study of the birds – am I having that right?….neh! but since I was there I did my best not to startle them, to do that I’ve to move like a tortoise – imagine the bird staring at me like I am one funny looking animal. anyway wasn’t able to do what i came for – for now…yeah!…hehehe:

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