White and White - Flowers

Flowers are natures best pieces of art. Here are few pictures i shot with some description.

There was a water body collected just beside my house when it was under construction. These grew in that water body. nice white elegant flowers. shot with Sony DSC-H50.  Scientific name: Nymphaea alba.

Water Lilly 

These flowers are very tiny around 5mm in size. I shot them with a closeup filter on Nikkor35mm1.8G. These are white flowers and have a yellow center. look beautiful .. arent they?

Shot with Nikkor 35mm 1.8G and Closeup filter.

Longshot just to show the size of flowers - Tiny

This is a well known species but rather rare to see. I have seen this flower for the first time , inspite of being the common commodity we daily use. Its flower of Onion. This flower is a part of Globular infloresecence (bunch of flowers) buds in the background. What do you say? isnt it good...!

Shot with Nikkor 35mm 1.8G

Some wild flowers

Little Egret

Little Egret

Little Egret is a bird from egret family looks very similar to cattle egret but with difference of the colour of beak and legs. You can clearly see the black coloured beak and black coloured legs with green claws.

Little Egret - standing tall - NikonD7000+Tamron70-300mmVC @2016

Little egret - curved neck - NikonD7000+Tamron70-300mmVC

It flies with neck hunched back into the body. notice the dense arrangement of  feathers.

Little egret - flight - NikonD7000+Tamron70-300mmVC

  

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Red Vented Bulbul

Red Vented Bulbul  is medium sized bird with Black , square shaped head. scaly brown body and Red coloured vent. These are fairly common birds.

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Previuosly i captured thsi image using different lens Nikkor 18-140mm VR. you can see the quality difference using longer lens and also better technique in above pictures.

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I took the below picture in 2013 even before i knew name of this bird with a point and shoot. SONY DSC-H50

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Cattle Egret

CATTLE EGRET

 NIKON D7000 + TAMRON 70-300mm VC USD

Cattle Egret is a large bright white bird with long neck and long beak and long legs. Almost always accompany the cattle. Its symbiosis between cattle and these birds. The above picture shows a breeding plumage the light brown colour on the neck and back. The picture below shows the bright white non-breeding plumage.

NIKON D7000 + NIKKOR 18-140mm VR

Purple SUNBIRD

 PURPLE SUNBIRD

Purple sunbird is small bird, feeds on flower nectar. Male looks like black coloured and has purple shimmer over head and neck when exposed to sunlight. It has long curved beak for sucking nectar from the flowers.

NIKON D7000 + TAMRON 70-300mm VC

 Female sunbird is of same size but light greenish brown body and yellow underparts.

NIKON D7000 + TAMRON 70-300mm VC

Earlier I shot same bird with Nikkor lens 18-140mm.

NIKON D7000 + NIKKOR 18-140mm


Female sunbird hovering for nectar

NIKON D7000 + NIKKOR 18-140mm