Visit to Bird Photographer's Fair - Sinhgad Valley - 23rd Jan 2011

Hi Friends,

After half night session of Astrophotography on 22nd Night, Next Morning we (me, Nilesh and Priyanka) went to Sinhgad Valley for Birding. Sinhgad Valley is the area at the base of Sinhgad Fort in Pune and is very Famous for birding. High number of birders go there, as lot of birds are easily seen and photographed here, so many birders are there that I call this place as "Bird Photographer's Fair".

This was my first visit to place and as expected saw many prominent birds.

Following is the List of Birds i saw

1 Red Vented Bulbul (लालबुड्या बुलबुल)
2 Red Whiskered Bulbul (शिपाई बुलबुल)
3 Plum Headed Parakeets
4 Jungle Bablers (रानभाई)
5 Plain Prinia (वटवट्या)
6 Ashy Prinia -(राखाडी वटवट्या) (First time i got acceptable photo of this beauty )
7 Tailor Bird (शिंपी)
8 Rofous Treepie - (टकाचोर) First Time for me
9 Asian Paradise Flycatcher (शाही बुलबुल)
10 Rofous Asian Paradise Flycatcher
11 Verditer Flycatcher
12 Green Bea Eater (वेडा राघू)
13 Purple Sunbirds (जांभळा शिंजीर)
14 Oriental White Eye (चश्मेवाला)
15 Oriental Magpie Robin - Male & Female (दयाळ)
16 Pied Bushchat (कवडा गप्पीदास)
17 Chestnut Shouldered Petronia (रानचिमणी)
18 Spotted Dove (ठिपकेदार होला)
19 Red Throated Flycatcher Female
20 Indian Robin (चीरक)
21 Pond Heron
22 Booted Eagle Pale Morph
23 Blyth's Reed Warbler
24 White Throated Fantail (नर्तक, नाचण)
25 Drongo (कोतवाल)
26 Yellow Wagtail
27 Common Shrike (खाटीक)
28 Small Minivet (निखार)

Following are some of the photos from the Session :

Red Throated Flycatcher Female -
This photo is taken with Canon 70-200 F/4 + Kenko 2x Teleconvetor - with 2x the autofocus dose not work so have to manually focus. This is the first time i have tried 2x also it was first time I tried Monopod (Nilesh's). Its works great. The Quality of 2x teleconvetor is much much better than I expected ! Monopod increased my shake-less photos !!!

: Click on Photos to see Larger Version :




All other photos are with Canon 70-200 F/4 + Kenko 1.5x Teleconvertor + Canon 7D

Oriental Magpie Robin Female (दयाळ)


Pied Bushchat Male (कवडा गप्पीदास)


Oriental White Eye (चश्मेवाला)


Ashy Prinia ( राखाडी वटवट्या )


Green Bea-Eater (वेडा राघू)


Comments and Critiques welcome,

Regards,
Sameer