Common Stonechat (Female)

i had spotted Eurasian Wryneck on 27/9/16 at Surat outskirt but it was around 6pm and its in bushes so shot was not upto my mark.i wished to click a good shot and again went on next day at same site.
before reach that point,i was driving my cheetah on a speed of aprx 5km/h and sighted this beauty just beside the road on a small bush.very carefully i drive little away from it with one hand on steering and one hand camera at door.mostly it fly away but i was lucky and got this much detailed shot.

Exifs :
Canon 7D Mark2
Aperture-priority AE Mode
f /8 || Shutter speed 1/1000 || ISO 640 || 600mm || White Balance : 5200k
Surat outskirt, Gujarat

White Stork & Painted Stork

I went Pariej Lake again on 19/12/15 After so many 'no' for birding trip with my roomie during my MBBS n friend, Dr.Pragnesh.we reached at Baroda aprx 8.30pm.hotel was given by another friend Dr.Yogesh Mistry.we did get together and make little party till 2am at Baroda,though Pragnesh wake up at 5.30am as he always wake up early on birding day.
We left Baroda around at 6.30am. our birding frnd Dr.Bhavesh Mengar join us at near by Sojitra on Anand-Tarapur road.
Dr.Mengar told us to go 1st at surrounding area of Pariej Lake for White Stork as he had clicked 7days before. so we entered thru small road for White Stork.after driving of 2-3km he told us to locate for White Stork both side of road in a group of Painted Stork.Pragnesh n myself  were looking for another bird but Dr.Mengar was looking for White Stork for us. after clicking of few birds we were 5+km inside of main road n Pragnesh was driving his Ciaz, i was siting beside him n Mengar was siting on back,sudden he asked to stop car for looking in group of 5-6 painted stork for White Stork n we got lifer.
sudden we came out n very carefully started approaching towards the White Stork but cudnt got good shot n fly away inside the farm.we walked aprx 1+km inside the farm n got good this shot.i had tried to frame White Stork with Painted Stork but just missed a moment coz white stork moved its neck.

Exifs :
Canon 7D Mark2
Manual Exposure Mode
f /8 || Shutter speed 1/250 || ISO 200 || 600mm || White Balance : 5200k
Pariej Lake outskirt, Anand, Gujarat

Common Coot

Early days of monsoon are good days photography coz there are less water in wetlands with more waders in small area with closure shots n green background.
i was at my birding hotspot on 14/07/16 around at 4.00pm.clicked many shots of Pheasant-tailed Jacana, Cotton-pygmy goose, Purple Swamphen,Common Coot, Yellow Bittern but most shots were in cloudy so not satisfied coz its monsoon so sun was playing hide n seek in clouds.
Around 4.35pm big gap of cloud came n bright sunlight showered over wetland and clicked some good shots of mentioned species.while i was searching birds,sudden i see a Common Coot was about to run n quickly focused over it and started clicking as it started running. lucky to frame 3-4 shots and this one is 3rd shot.

Exifs :
Canon 7D Mark2
Aperture-Priority AE Mode
f /8 || Shutter speed 1/2000 || ISO 800 || 600mm || White Balance : Day Light
Tena wetland, Surat, Gujarat

Grey Heron

i had mentioned story in post of Pariej lake on Indian Thick-knee & Little Ring Plover. after Blackbuck National Park visits in morning of 18/10/15 sudden made a plan to visit Nal Sarovar Bird Sanctuary and called my guide Akbarbhai and reached there around at 2pm.upto 4pm we did photography there and moved other site for other bird.
while we were on the way i had seen Grey Heron very close to road n clicked only one shot.at 600mm it's half neck was covered.

Exifs :
Canon 7D Mark2
Aperture-Priority AE Mode
f /9 || Shutter speed 1/1000 || ISO 640 || 600mm || White Balance : Day Light
Nal Sarovar Bird Sanctuary, Ahmadabad, Gujarat

Blue-tailed Bee-eater

Whenever i sleep late night and plan next day for birding,mostly wake-up before time.i had reached Bilimora around at 11.30pm and sleep around at 1am after set alarm of 7.30am but wake-up at 6.45am.
around 7.15am went for birding in my cheetah,the little rain showering was on still i went and hope to stop rain.luckily it stops around at 9am,till i was driving to search birds.sighted many winter birds like Eurasian Marsh Harrier, Black-tailed Godwit,Blue-tailed Bee-eater,etc .
i was looking for good shot with good sunlight but clouds didn't clear.i had entered one road,it was very small road mean if another car or other four-wheel vehicle came the problem occur to cross each other.but didn't find new and thought to return.it was speed of 40-50km/h and sudden i saw a Blue-tailed Bee-eater was preening with spreading wings and break the cheetah.carefully reverse and went right side of road where it was sitting on a electric wire.took shots from driver seat but it was busy in its work so stopped the engine and opened the door.stand on foot rest and took some awesome photos with standing.sudden one racer came with loud horn and this beauty fly away.just missed to shoot video but happy to frame it against cloudy light.

Exifs :
Canon 7D Mark2
Aperture-priority AE Mode
f /8 || Shutter speed 1/250 || ISO 400 || 428mm ||  Exposure Compensation 2+ ||White Balance : Daylight
Bilimora outskirt,Navsari,Gujarat

Request :-
Please, please do not litter at any hill station or any other tourist place. Carry an extra bag and keep empty wrappers of food articles and other garbage in it. Empty it in garbage bins available en-route. 

Sunda Teal Female

RadhaNagar beach is Asia's Cleanest beach.we went towards beach around 1pm and reached after 1+hr of journey.seen many osm locations and birds for photography but i was with family and frnds so ignored.
after reaching there,i was astonished coz it was above expectation.as usual i went on beach side for birds and after walking of 15min seen a water collection 300mtr away from sea.went there and luckily sighted Sunda Teal.at first i had avoided coz i had sighted 100+ Sunda Teal just 5km away from my hotel and thought to went there for photography.clicked only 2 shots.
Bad luck,i didn't went there next day.

Exifs :
Canon 7D Mark2
Aperture-Priority AE Mode
f /8 || Shutter speed 1/320 || ISO 2000 || 600mm || White Balance : 5200k
Radhanagar Beach, Andaman, India.

Red-naped Ibis

Giving full Credit of this image to my friend Dr.Bhavesh Mengar coz we were at Pariej lake,Anand and find nothing new so decided to go at different location.while we were walking, i seen this ibis n asked him to frame some shots so himself went towards my car with my son.
frankly speaking ibis n myself played with each other for 10-15min with close distance,i don't know why that bird didn't fly away,itself just walked here n there.

Exifs :
Canon 7DMark2
Aperture-Priority AE Mode
f /9 || Shutter speed 1/320 || ISO 400 || 600mm || White Balance : Day Light
Pariej, Anand, Gujarat

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Please, please do not litter at any hill station or any other tourist place. Carry an extra bag and keep empty wrappers of food articles and other garbage in it. Empty it in garbage bins available en-route.  

Eurasian Marsh Harrier

i am very eager to test my new Canon EOS 7D Mark 2 which i bought on 5th 0ct'15.so asked my wife to go on long drive and we went towards hazira,surat outskirt.

it was around at 12pm,we were exact opposite to Reliance Industries Limited ,gate no 2(didn't remember exactly) to Bhatlai village,near Hazira.after 1km of drive,seen a raptor was sitting on one cement pole,just close to road.it was a Eurasian Marsh Harrier.took 5-10 photo in single click in burst mode due to osm speed of my machine-gun.when i saw photo in lcd of camera,all were so bright n when i seen iso,it was 1600.i changed to 200 n when try to frame it again but i missed coz it started flying n went away. but thanks to Photoshop,recover mostly.

This Image was cropped at 25%

Exifs :
Canon 7D Mark 2
Aperture-Priority AE Mode
f /8 || Shutter speed 1/1000 || ISO 1600 || 600mm || White Balance : Day Light
Surat outskirt, Gujarat

Indian Silverbill

Story posted  in  Greater Flamingo Pair in Love i was at Sultanpur wetland,Navsari with my my friend Viren Desai and Abhay Naik on 02/09/16.
i was sitting on back seat,after drive of 700+mtr from entering towards wetland,sudden Virenbhai told to stop the car as he had sighted Indian Silverbill close to road. with ought delay, very quickly focused and clicked as i know it will fly away n happened but lucky to get good shot.it didn't give chance to change camera setting otherwise i will get,details of whole bird.

Exifs :
Canon 7D Mark2
Manual Mode
f /5.6 || Shutter speed 1/500 || ISO 400 || 600mm ||White Balance : 5200k
Sultanpur wetland, Navsari,Gujarat

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Please, please do not litter at any hill station or any other tourist place. Carry an extra bag and keep empty wrappers of food articles and other garbage in it. Empty it in garbage bins available en-route. 

Night Heron Juvenile

i went for photography of Rain Quail in rice crop farms on 1st sep'16.walked 1km after parked my cheetah and walking very carefully and sudden seen this beauty sitting on a cement pole.took some front pose but i was noticed and just move back to click its side pose but it fly away.i had tried for flying shot unable to focus.
i was lucky coz it sit 400-500mtr away from me on another cement pole.i walked towards it as i know it fly away coz there were 3-4 another cement pole and each pole common myna and little egret were siting,they fly away but Night Heron didn't fly away and gives some superb shots.

Exifs :
Canon 7D Mark2
Manual Mode
f /8 || Shutter speed 1/500 || ISO 800 || 600mm ||White Balance : 5200k
Surat outskirt,Gujarat

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Please, please do not litter at any hill station or any other tourist place. Carry an extra bag and keep empty wrappers of food articles and other garbage in it. Empty it in garbage bins available en-route. 

Black-eared Kite

i had set a trip to Black-buck National Park,Velavdar on 17/10/15 with family.before i reach there,had a plan to go pariyej and then go Ahmadabad n stay at one of hotel.
So on 16th early morning started driving to reach pariyej n meet my friend Dr.Bhavesh Mengar,did some good photography then in noon started journey towards Ahmadabad. after entering Ahmadabad seen 5-6 Black Kite were flying close to ground near the small tree and coming back again n again.so stopped my car at road side and went to click close shot as didn't click and got succeed.
its a 100% cropped and over exposed photo but happy to recover details.

Exifs :
Canon 7D Mark2
Manual Mode
f /9 || Shutter speed 1/500 || ISO 400 || 600mm ||White Balance : 5200k
Ahmdabad,Gujarat

Request :-
Please, please do not litter at any hill station or any other tourist place. Carry an extra bag and keep empty wrappers of food articles and other garbage in it. Empty it in garbage bins available en-route. 

Chestnut-tailled Starling

Story posted yesterday in  Greater Flamingo Pair in Love i was at Sultanpur wetland,Navsari with my my friend Viren Desai and Abhay Naik on 02/09/16.
i was sitting on back seat,after drive of 700+mtr from entering towards wetland,sudden i see pair of Chestnut-tailled Starling. thought that might be i am wrong as it usually not sighted there so told Abhay to reverse the car to confirm and happy for my sighting.clicked for a record shot as it was taken in hurry coz one black drongo was disturbing them and fly away.we had waited for 5min but they didn't came back.

Exifs :
Canon 7D Mark2
Manual Mode
f /5.6 || Shutter speed 1/2000 || ISO 800 || 600mm ||  Exposure Compensation 3+ ||White Balance : 5200k
Sultanpur wetland,Navsari,Gujarat

Request :-
Please, please do not litter at any hill station or any other tourist place. Carry an extra bag and keep empty wrappers of food articles and other garbage in it. Empty it in garbage bins available en-route. 

Greater Flamingo Pair in Love

Birding in monsoon gives superb shots but if proper sunlight is there.one my best friend Viren Desai called me around at 4pm on 1/9/16 to join him to go at Sultanpur Wetland,Navsari as he had not visited and his cousin brother Abhay Naik wants to do photography there.as i had did photogrpahy last year and didn't want to go there for flamingo as they were much inside and due to cloudy weather shots were not up to my mark.Viren told me to come with him just for bird watching,we will not shoot there,finally i said yes at 10pm.
Around 7am i left towards our meeting point and reached there,parked my cheetah and went in Abhay's car.as i had visited i was know the road but forgotten and driven 5+km on wrong way,sudden realise and turned map on and reached Sultanpur around at n 8.30am.
at first i didnt shoot any pic but thought for new bird and find chestnut-tailed starling pair.close shot shot of indian silverbill.
Flamingo were much inside so i asked to sit at one point and not to move,and succeed group of Greater Flamingo little come towards us, clicked some shots with loving movements.even they are far away and even in more crop,image was not sharp but love this loving freeze.
due to cloudy weather and distance shot added lights and saturation for better view.

Exifs :
Canon 7D Mark2
Manual Mode
f /5.6 || Shutter speed 1/3200 || ISO 800 || 600mm ||  Exposure Compensation 3+ ||White Balance : 5200k
Sultanpur wetland,Navsari,Gujarat

Request :-
Please, please do not litter at any hill station or any other tourist place. Carry an extra bag and keep empty wrappers of food articles and other garbage in it. Empty it in garbage bins available en-route.