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A bird on the fence...


A bird on the fence...
Photo Information
Copyright: Uma KS (uma_k5) Silver Star Critiquer/Silver Note Writer [C: 47 W: 6 N: 48] (313)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-03-12
Categories: Birds
Camera: Canon Powershot S2-IS 12X Zoom
Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Date Submitted: 2007-04-25 4:27
Viewed: 819
Points: 4
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
The Pacific Swallow or Hill Swallow (Hirundo tahitica) is a small passerine bird in the swallow family.

It breeds in tropical southern Asia from southern India and Sri Lanka across to south east Asia and the islands of the south Pacific. It is resident apart from some local seasonal movements.

This bird is associated with coasts, but is increasingly spreading to forested uplands.

The neat cup-shaped nests are lined with mud collected in the swallows' beaks. They are placed under cliff ledges or on man-made structures such as buildings, bridges or tunnel. The clutch is two to three eggs, up to four in Sri Lanka.

Swallows are somewhat similar in habits and appearance to the other aerial insectivores, such as the related martins and the unrelated swifts (order Apodiformes). Pacific Swallows are fast flyers and they generally feed on insects, especially flies, while airborne.

This species is a small swallow at 13cm. It has a blue back with browner wings and tail, a red face and throat, and dusky underparts. It differs from Barn Swallow and the closely-related Welcome Swallow in its shorter and less forked tail.

(From Wikipedia)
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  • gannu Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 996 W: 4 N: 2570] (11874)
  • [2007-04-25 6:59]
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Hi Uma,
Good shot and nice frame. But picture seems to be having little color loss.. Is it due to some conversion process. Ganesh

Very nice composition with good DOV and interesting POV. Perhaps a bit more post editing to enhance the color saturation? Overall a nice photo, though, TFS.

Mish

Hi Uma
Very beautiful posture and i especially like the environment in which you captured the swallow.Good eye contact too

Agree with Gannu and FiE on the color loss part, so may be i guess you need to take care of that part now.

Have posted a workshop. Hope you dont mind and like it.:)
TFS & Cheers

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