Prey Prey everyday!

When I write this, consider me in that mode, where your eyes are open but all you can see are some random faded lines and lights that cannot form a shape, when you can’t hear to the person speaking right beside you, but all you can hear is your inner voice, talking to yourself in your own world of thoughts…

White throated kingfisher

When I think of birds, all I can think about them is their simplicity towards life. Might not be easy but such a simple life they have. They have their goals fixed and they need to accomplish  them before the end of the day. To feed themselves and their young ones. Unlike us, with so many duties and responsibilities to carry on your shoulders with mind being visiting some other world.

Green bee eater with fly kill

Life can be easy if we want it to be. But no! we are human, we have an intelligent brain and a stupid heart. Most of the time what we do is, listen to our brain and think with heart. I call us stupid as we are not satisfied with tonight’s meal, we are hoping better in tomorrow’s breakfast.

White cheeked barbet with preying mantis kill

Like birds, we don’t leave our children to choose their own prey and live on their own after a certain while. But unlike birds, we make noise in the night and sleep in the early morning. The day we all start waking up with birds and sleep with them, our lives will be half sorted. (oh ya, without a materialistic alarm clock)

Greater coucal with snake kill.  (such a grainy picture, very late evening high ISO image. I didn’t want to miss out on my early prey shots. )

We all nature loving people love to watch birds. But whats more exciting is to watch them in their original form without any kind of disturbance to them in their habitat. Birds perch, they preen, they call, they sing, they mate, they kill, they feed just like humans. But we humans are civilized and we usually don’t have to find and kill prey to feed ourselves. But they need to maintain the cycle and be alive. And by now you all must be guessing my new obsession which is watching and capturing predators and prey. Yum 😛

 

 

 

 

 

 

White throated kingfisher tossing its meal. Timing matters

I will keep this post really short with the pictures I could manage to click of birds hunting and having their meal. Basically, when I go out for birding and I get to capture any with prey in their beak, its a trophy for me. I get super excited and it just makes my day. Though I have not got enough opportunities to click a lot of different species with prey but I am optimistic about my future endeavors. 🙂 Hope you enjoy too 🙂

Baya weaver- female (All they like are high perches when it comes to having meal and having a prey is a delight to watch)

Black headed Ibis with snake kill. ( This shot was taken from a wetland near the road and it was impossible for me to go any lower, hence the output)

Indian pond heron catching pair of fishes in a pretty wetland.

The heron and I ,both were settled with one fish by the time.

My first kingo prey shot, that too with a lizard. My happiness had no boundaries, only didn’t I know was that it was just the beginning.

Kingo (White throated kingfisher) with cockroach kill ,one evening.

Another day, another kill. Kingo again with fly

From my very recent captures. Kingo never disappoints me when I want a good click.

With a bug this time 🙂

Indian lored tit with its big meal. We were in mahabaleshwar park roaming with a 18-135mm in hand. This tit took all its time kill and finish its meal in one of the high branches of a tree. Though I couldn’t get a better zoom but I was a little satisfied watching it.

Green bee eater. One of my favorite birds when it comes to prey. Such a delight they are to watch. All their activities are pretty to my eyes.  This particular view made my very morning the other day after having a very unsatisfying birding out.

I am not perfect but may I will be someday.

Hope you have enjoyed my predator-prey sum up. I will keep on updating as I get more opportunities and learn in the process. There is no end to learning as I always say.

My other birding posts:

Monsoon vibes with birdies

An evening with Asian openbill

Parra – A birding hour

Birding in Chopdem,Goa

etc.etc.

Keep birding, keep spreading love 🙂

Much love

RIYA.