| Photo Information |
Copyright: Dinu Konanur (Dinu)
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| Genre: Animals |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2007-11-09 |
| Categories: Insects |
| Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ8 |
| Exposure: f/4.6, 1/400 seconds |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2007-11-14 18:54 |
| Viewed: 794 |
| Points: 2 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
Black Kite - Milvus migrans. Large brown hawk, distinguished by its forked tail, particularly in overhead flight [now it is perching on an electric pole close to our house]. They are seen singly or gregariously, scavenging in towns and villages. This is our commonest raptor, a confirmed commensal of man and usually found in the neighbourhood of human habitations [it has a nest in my neighbour's tree], Ramarkably adroit on the wing, turniing and twisting, [a pleasure to the eye!] banking and stooping to scoop up scraps from a traffic-congested thoroughfare and avoiding tangles of overhead electric and telephone wires with masterful ease [this is how Dr.Salim Ali describes in his book - "Indian Birds"].
Feeds on offal and garbage [they get plenty!], earthworms, winged termites, lizards, mice, disabled or young bird, and almost anything else that can be procured. It calls "ewe-wir-wir-wir" both from perch and while on the wing. Builds an untidy platform of twigs, iron wire, rags, rubbish etc. as its nest and lays 2-4 dirty pinkish white eggs, lightly spotted and blotched with reddish brown. Both sexes share in the domestic duties.
After a few seconds, this took to its wings and I have a slightly blurred picture of it with spread wings, legs still touching the pole. The next time I have to focus on any bird, I think I should be ready for such an eventuality - if it takes off, we can still have them in the frame - by anticipating it and leaving enough space inside the frame in the direction with which it would take off.
Sun was shining brightly that morning. |
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