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Blue-tailed Bee-eater – Take off Moment Animation

November 15, 2020 • 5

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“Honey let me know what else do you need ok?” “Hmm... let me rest for a while first” The male Olive-backed Sunbird hovering outside the nest seems like chatting with his partner and the female resting inside the nest before she go out to busy prepare their new house . Both male and female are working together to build their nest. They will abandon the nest for a week and the female will come back to lay the eggs after that. 😊

After the female Olive-backed Sunbird went into the nest and finished the setup , it quickly flew out again to look for material required to continue it’s work for their home. This is the take-off moment when she is out of the nest 😊

“Prepare to land!” Olive-backed Sunbird (Female) different type of wingspan (upstroke) before it is perching to the nest , you can see both legs are close , like how the aeroplane is landing 😊

Olive-backed Sunbird (Female) busy building their nest! First time spotted how the bird building their nest and I use different way to capture this series of photos. Just focus and aiming at the nest, if I heard the sunbird’s sound from far I will quickly ready my finger and once it appear in the viewfinder, I can quickly press the shutter to capture these precious moments. The female bird won’t go directly to the nest , she is very cautious and will perch at the side and monitor a while before it fly into the nest to prepare their new home. This give me ample time to get ready. The photo show one wing in action (blurish) and the other wing is freeze , looks like it’s hovering a while before entering the nest. What a unique and pleasure experience to shot this 😊

This is the downstroke bird in flight moment for the Common Kingfisher. After few dives, it decided to fly to upstream of the canal to look for food again. The downstroke wingspan is gorgeous too! 😊

Common Kingfisher take-off moment! The wings expand fully looks really nice. It flying up and down along the canal and dive into the water few times to hunt for the dinner.

“I am safe!” - After escaped successfully from the “attack” (refer to my previous post) , the female Malaysian Plover prepare to land gracefully . You can see the male bird missed it and pass under the female bird to the right 😊

“Now is my turn!” (Male - left) “Easy, boy!” (Female - right) - In my previous post I have shared with you how the female Malaysian Plover chase / play with the male Malaysian Plover. This time is the opposite scenario , the male bird is running over very quickly and try to chase / play with the female bird and she take-off immediately (just a short distance) to skip the “attack” and let the male bird pass under her. However…I am not sure if this is the same pair as my previous post, nevertheless I am glad able to observe their behaviours closely and they are really very cute 😊

The female Malaysian Plover rushing over to chase away the male Malaysian Plover. The male bird quickly jump up and fly away to escape the “attack” . Probably he accidentally step into the female’s territory or they just playing around. The wingspan is simply gorgeous 😊

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