Greater Painted Snipe (Female)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> Breeding Plumage of Male birds looks beautiful then female birds except Greater Painted Snipe.  <br /> i was at Nal Sarovar Bird Sanctuary on 14/04/16 for Breeding Plumages.upto 10am we had clicked Breeding Plumages Godwit,Spotted Redshank, Ruff etc and reached at one place where Pratincole was sighted.we had clicked them and i was searching for other birds n sudden a bird started flying.it was much closure to me so unable to focus in 600mm but still m focusing it continousely and succeed to focus when it went lil away from me.clicked 3-4 shots and it was jackpot coz its a Female of Greater Painted Snipe.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOuLtu9h_hCL05pEzZLC8g_e0N4h9j0mkpPOkhLpeh1LfNlnV0SAMOlVWLZ-tCf8-PHcimxVbc6AaikPJDcPibn-spLuwmLuZUnBs-lw_TaoHHV4w6dYk08hZqtCv1CHwT84Q2Bqq8yMbg/s1600/Greater+Painted+Snipe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1280" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOuLtu9h_hCL05pEzZLC8g_e0N4h9j0mkpPOkhLpeh1LfNlnV0SAMOlVWLZ-tCf8-PHcimxVbc6AaikPJDcPibn-spLuwmLuZUnBs-lw_TaoHHV4w6dYk08hZqtCv1CHwT84Q2Bqq8yMbg/s640/Greater+Painted+Snipe.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> Exifs :<br /> Canon 7D Mark2<br /> Manual Mode<br /> f /8 || Shutter speed 1/1600 || ISO 500 || 600mm || White Balance : 5200k<br /> Nal Sarovar Bird Sanctuary, Ahmadabad,Gujarat </div>

Greater Painted Snipe (Female)

Breeding Plumage of Male birds looks beautiful then female birds except Greater Painted Snipe.  i was at Nal Sarovar Bird Sanctuary on 14/...

Read more »

Greater Painted-snipe

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> Yesterday i had posted in my article of <a href="http://www.yugworld.net/2017/03/baillons-crake.html#.WLrK_H8-gqI">Baillon's Crake</a> that in birding you need more luck for sighting and for Rare,need your lucky friends.<br /> as per plan wake up at 4.50am after sleep of 5hour and get ready within 35min with bath n breakfast.before starting my drive,called my both friend n came smile on my face that they were also ready at Bardoli. we met on National Highway 8 at Palsana cross road, where Viren Parked his Elantra n we were on the way to Chikhali.<br /> it was a drive of 70-80km n reached around at 7am at our desire location.Proff P C Patel sir and Proff Anil Bhatt sir told us for location and we sit there and got good shot of Ruddy-breasted Crake but all are in low light.so i was looking for at the area at sunlight n find one Ruddy-breasted Crake,took 3-4 shots n thought to move there,same time Viren also moved n Ruddy-breasted Crake went inside.<br /> Stand up myself n went 1st towards hiding place near to that Ruddy-breasted Crake.saved myself to entered my legs in mud n find the place to hide myself.after waiting of 15+min one Greater Painted-snipe came n give close shots to us.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwwmWbjF9l5zAKJUrLdw3bOH6azB540DjaEaVbfsL8qE1bwmZsZrkOUUxeWSaIJlZBm_ZOiuzhKXWHEzmRvZjcfsvz641qidSReNLeg5BMj2p5sCDT4wwKX9VQrFNwyDVaq-BKc8nNLN4a/s1600/Greater+Painted-snipe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwwmWbjF9l5zAKJUrLdw3bOH6azB540DjaEaVbfsL8qE1bwmZsZrkOUUxeWSaIJlZBm_ZOiuzhKXWHEzmRvZjcfsvz641qidSReNLeg5BMj2p5sCDT4wwKX9VQrFNwyDVaq-BKc8nNLN4a/s640/Greater+Painted-snipe.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> Exifs :<br /> Canon 7D Mark2<br /> Manual Mode<br /> f /8 || Shutter speed 1/800 || ISO 1600 || 600mm || White Balance : Auto<br /> Chikhli, Gujarat</div>

Greater Painted-snipe

Yesterday i had posted in my article of Baillon's Crake that in birding you need more luck for sighting and for Rare,need your lucky ...

Read more »

Greater Painted Snipe (Female)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> i went to Nal sarovar bird sanctuary for breeding pluamge on 14/04/16,story posted in <a href="http://www.yugworld.net/2016/04/black-tailed-godwit-breeding-plumage.html#.V4fThUc9IqI">Black-tailed Godwit (Breeding Plumage)</a>.<br /> with breeding plumage our target was also for special species so around at 10am we reached the point where it been sighted n started searching in the bushes in the water with bino but we failed to locate.Pankaj and Hiren was busy in clicking in Pratincole and i was with our guide Latif. sudden Latif told me very silently to come close,before i reach there the beauty fly away n got only 2 shots of Greater Painted Snipe (Female).<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2KcodAVR4gAFHT2zNaS9wWvcfQvRZak1DYteLwkHT90NSH0sdC8kh4isWSN1DQGn9H8QJOYSmybUCK9QQk2u8T8f5kUOfZRMcj77d_1pE4ykUTk_LRL-Dp6Ed9ANjiAl98rmix7zWSzFN/s1600/Greater+Painted+Snipe+%2528Female%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2KcodAVR4gAFHT2zNaS9wWvcfQvRZak1DYteLwkHT90NSH0sdC8kh4isWSN1DQGn9H8QJOYSmybUCK9QQk2u8T8f5kUOfZRMcj77d_1pE4ykUTk_LRL-Dp6Ed9ANjiAl98rmix7zWSzFN/s1600/Greater+Painted+Snipe+%2528Female%2529.jpg" /></a></div> <br /> Exifs :<br /> Canon 7D Mark2<br /> Manual Mode<br /> f /8 || Shutter speed 1/1600 || ISO 500 || 600mm || White Balance : 5200k<br /> Nal Sarovar Bird Sanctuary, Ahmadabad,Gujarat </div>

Greater Painted Snipe (Female)

i went to Nal sarovar bird sanctuary for breeding pluamge on 14/04/16,story posted in Black-tailed Godwit (Breeding Plumage) . with breedi...

Read more »