The Raptors, Buteos and Eagles Birds of Mount Abu FEBRUARY 2019 mountabubirds.blogspot.com

Bonelli's Eagle Aquila fasciata

Long-legged buzzard - Buteo rufinus

1 February 2019  

FEBRUARY HAS COME AND IN A DAY WE WILL HAVE REACHED THE HALFWAY MARK. YEAH I know folks around the world will be celebrating Valentines day tomorrow. The birds also will begin their courtship by the end of Feb. My internet this part of the world sucks. I do not have a broadband connection.Will try to post on a regular basis as and when time permits.Enjoy the photographs taken on the first of Feb. 

Bonelli's Eagle Aquila fasciata

Long-legged buzzard - Buteo rufinus

Long-legged buzzard attacking the eagle.

The first of Feb, was a feast for the birders eyes,

The morning sky, was greeted with soaring  hawks,

The Buteos were attacking the Bonelli's Eagle,

Their aerial display for supremacy was greeted with continuous clicks.

Watch my small presentation, wished it had lasted a little longer.

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Raptors in the February sky 

White-spotted fantail Birds of Mount Abu JANUARY 2019 mountabubirds.blogspot.com

White-spotted fantail Rhipidura albogularis

31 January 2019.

White-spotted fantail Rhipidura albogularis

White-spotted fantail Rhipidura albogularis

White-spotted fantail Rhipidura albogularis

Mount Abu's fascinating dancer: The White-spotted fantail,

This little small daredevil, with its white spots on its breast,

Dances away and fanning the insects in its wake, its aerial sallies

Not be match for the for the tiny insects that are gobbled up in every launch that it makes.

The birder with his camera has to keep pace, to get that prized picture 

Of this species, with the white brow, and slim white collar and fan like tail.

White-spotted fantail Over the years

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The White-spotted fantail is a residential bird of Abu. It's very commonly seen here. In the nesting period, it's one of the most fearsome daredevils I've seen. It chases any bird even the fearsome Shikra if it enters its realm.

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Red-throated Flycatcher Birds of Mount Abu JANUARY 2019 mountabubirds.blogspot.com

Red-throated Flycatcher Ficedula parva

29 January 2019

Red-throated Flycatcher Ficedula parva - male

Red-throated Flycatcher Ficedula parva   -  Female

One of our smallest winter visitors, the Taiga or Red-throated flycatcher,

Is seen commonly all over Abu, beside streams, jungle footpaths and open grasslands,

Has a grey-brown face, reddish-orange throat in males, small dark bill, dark eye with slim pale eye-ring.

Has a black tail with white at the basset its outer tail feathers.

Rapidly flicks tail upwards, always sallies through the undergrowth, feeding on flying insects.

Red-throated Flycatcher over the years.

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Grey-headed Flycatcher Birds of Mount Abu JANUARY 2019 mountabubirds.blogspot.com

Grey-headed Flycatcher Culicicapa ceylonensis

28 January 2019.

Flycatchers, flycatchers have come to the Abode.

With their constant sallies from branch to branch,

Most are winter visitors from far-off lands,

Their beautiful colours of sets with their sweet tweets

Are an exceptional treat for photographers and painters.

Grey-headed Flycatcher Culicicapa ceylonensis

The Grey-headed Canary Flycatcher, with its Ashy head.

The light grey throat, enhanced by its bright yellow plumage,

It's yellow-green back, with yellow in browner  wings and tail

Is a solitary hunter, feeding of aerial insects with its incessant sallies.

The Grey-headed Canary Flycatcher, slide show

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The Grey-headed Canary Flycatcher is not a commonly seen species here in Mount Abu. I first photographed this bird in January and then later in February 2012. Butler. E. A . an. Ornithologist (1875) not included this species

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