That darker line defining the head is most striking. What great photos.

they're so beautiful! that line on the head is so striking! great photos :)

Very pretty.

I spotted parakeet in (surprise!) K R Circle, here in Bangalore. They were flying towards Cubbon Park. Tried bird-ing in this park (or Lalbagh)?

They are rose-ringed parakeets - fairly common in Bangalore. They look similar except they have a red ring round their necks a lot more greener.

what is the difference between parrots and parakeets?

and needless to say.. lovely pictures..

> what is the difference between parrots and parakeets?

Nothing much. Parakeets are just parrots with long slender tails as far as I know. :)

Such elegant beauty.
Thank you for showing us

Excellent photos..as always.

Beautiful! Thank you for sharing! (Why are they being re-named?)

Hmm ... tough one. Ornithologists probably want standard names across the world, so in this case, maybe they thought blue-winged is inappropriate since it's found only in the malabar region. Again, there's a lot of controversy regarding this, so it's best to leave the fights to the ornithologists. :)

Lovely Malabars and, of course, great photos.

Excellent Pics..I Loved It..!

Beautiful!

The full frame photo is stunning!

love,
tracie..xxx

Not only do I admire your photo taking capibilities of nature, I also wonder how you are able to take their photos in the first place.

I mean last week my wife called me to the dining room to show me two parrots, as soon as I looked out of the window I saw two of them flying off from the branches of a custard apple tree in our back yard.

They were flying away. Meaning I need not even bother thinking of the word camera, leave alone go to the camera, swap the lens and come back.

Last month there was this kingfisher on our neighbours ledge, but just outside our kitchen. Fellow was sitting really still. So ran got the camera after swapping the lens, came back, fellow is still there, aim the camera (from inside the house) and the fellow flies away.

Even if I had got the photo, it would have been a stupid photo. Since the background was a ugly white washed wall.

Sigh! Heh!

Well, photography in nature is tough. Almost all nature photographers waste more than 50-60% of their shots. For beginners it could be as high as 90%. I was reading how NatGeo photographers do it, when they see a good oportunity for a photograph, they just keep clicking - hundreds of frames in a few seconds and just one of it makes it to the magzine or is said to be good enough.

Birds especially have great eyes - much sharper than our own and can even see a wider spectrum of colors! So, a camera easily looks like a gun and the moment they see you pointing, they take flight. This is especially true wih respect to raptors since they have such awesome binocular vision.

So, some photos of mine could be good, but we should keep in mind there is a good percentage of wasted not-so-good photos on my computer. :)

Yesterday morning there were a bunch of sun birds in our garden. I didn't even think of the camera, since they fly around so fast, it would be rather pointless trying to photograph. So just admired them and went off;-)

a camera easily looks like a gun and the moment they see you pointing
In case of those parakeets, they could read thoughts I think, they flew off without us having a good look at them.

At the cost of sounding like a MCP, did anyone notice, that the males are way too good looking than the female species :)

It's the same case in most bird species ... the males are far more attractive. :)

Thats only to attract the better species ;)

Damn neat pics, u r really an awesome photographer