A beautiful 10 cm of a bird - like they say beautiful things do come in small packages. During our last birding visit to Sikkim - saw this bird that is a resident of NE and East Himalayan hills. It has a yellow supercilium that contrasts with the black sided of the crown It is the high pitched trill that alerted our birding guide to the bird and the next fifteen minutes were one of the best times I had with this beauty moving about and around us. I decided to sit on a ‘culvert’ on the roadside to see this bird and this bird did not disappoint us at all - chirping, pecking and bouncing all around us. There were times when I raised my camera to my eyes at a snails pace - because the bird was so close that I was afraid that I will loose the moment if it flies away.
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| I wonder who is staring at whom ?? |
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| Calling out to the birders - what a trill !! |
Presenting the few shots when this 10 cm bird almost tried to fill the frame and jump out of my viewfinder...
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| These two pictures are to give an idea about the crown of the bird |
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| A little better picture of the crown... |
And - hey I have already disclosed the secret to some - this bird is not a true Fulvetta - more closer to the Shrike babblers perhaps. Fulvetta or anything else - this little bird added a small yellow feather in my hat... A small lifer - a great sighting.
2 comments:
Never even heard of this species before!
Nice pics anyway..........
It's a new one fore too. But what a little cracker.
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