Pied Imperial Pigeon

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> Before Andaman trip i made list of birds found in Andaman,it was more than 100 and i was so excited to frame those birds coz it was 9days trip n thought to cover at least 50+ birds species.But after reaching there the scenario was extremely changed coz birding was so difficult there.<br /> Got one Guide there but charges was so high and we cudn't find bird normally there,even didn't see normal birds normally at sea side, trees are much higher so very hard to locate them, even u cant go inside the forest alone coz there was no network to contact.<br /> 10am on a 2nd day at Port blair, we 1st went to North Bay for Scuba diving,after scuba went sea side to find birds but got only sand piper n then went towards Lighthouse.i have time limit of 1hr.even i found chestnut-headed Bee eater then went to Ross island coz Ross island is closed at 3pm and we have only 1.30hr to visit this island.<br /> i was walking with looking up but didn't find even after 20min,then sudden seen orange-headed thrush,which was hardly 20ft away from me, got good shots n moved ahead. little neck pain started coz i was continuously looking since 30-40min. sudden some one white bird fly away from one tree to another.i was searching n even walked fast n locate them.clicked continuously as one of pigeon was flying so got higher shutter but they were at very high level of branch so shots were not clear but got in pair.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEEqZ6v6HcDt5n5MXFsfjxdptQ5W1B0yBLdP-WUPeO297IE-YwNM4L5rn5jrMk5Z7lORPBgDJT0UVoyAKneFSQb4U4tW6eon7Wc4l5SKIbVa8RfJNmrJlSxAAvmVJXrQcj-H0N-P7YvNjf/s1600/Pied+Imperial+Pigeon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEEqZ6v6HcDt5n5MXFsfjxdptQ5W1B0yBLdP-WUPeO297IE-YwNM4L5rn5jrMk5Z7lORPBgDJT0UVoyAKneFSQb4U4tW6eon7Wc4l5SKIbVa8RfJNmrJlSxAAvmVJXrQcj-H0N-P7YvNjf/s640/Pied+Imperial+Pigeon.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> Exifs :<br /> Canon 7D Mark2<br /> Aperture-priority AE Mode<br /> f /8 || Shutter speed 1/1600 || ISO 1000 || 600mm || White Balance : 5200k<br /> Ross island,Andaman </div>

Pied Imperial Pigeon

Before Andaman trip i made list of birds found in Andaman,it was more than 100 and i was so excited to frame those birds coz it was 9days t...

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