I belong to a small town in Hooghly district near kolkata city and still get the essence of countryside partialy in this concrete age. Natural greenaries, ponds are there in my locality which attract birds easily. Two years back my journey into this world started very casually .In the end of February when winter gets ready to take farewell and spring starts to enter with his gorgeous beauty , almost regularly I loved to roam around on the rooftop to enjoy the charming weather in the afternoon.There is a big red Sandalwood tree just beside my house which is clearly visible from the rooftop.First day I heard some chirping sound from the tree and noticed few birds were sitting on the tree ,they were jumping and dancing from one branch to another.I observed them for few minutes and realised that they were actually basking in the afternoon sun,this was the group of common myna. after sometimes when the group left the tree ,
another single bird came and sat on the top of the tree to enjoy the warmth of the sunlight,this bird was yellow in colour and it's head was black like a hood.I didn't know it's name at that time but I was extremely happy to see it's beautiful coloration of plumage.Later I got the information about this bird from net .It was Black Hooded Oriole .From the next day I took my bridge camera(Fujifilm s200 exr) , and started to wait silently with excitement.My effort didn't go in vain, I framed many different birds like Red Vented Bulbul ,Green Bee Eater ,Purple Sunbird , Asian Pied Starling etc.(later got the name from net).Most afternoons of that spring I spent on the rooftop to increase the numbers of my collection and became addicted and curious to take pics and gather knowledge about this world.
I am sharing some pics of birds which I captured as a beginner with my Fujifilm s200 exr camera ...
From next time I will strat to give details of a particular bird and will share my pics .Hope all of you will enjoy my blog ;)
