ML620847048

Age and sex

Adult, Unknown sex - 1

Media notes

8 o'clock: Approaching head-on.

Observation details

1. 22.61242° N, 87.99800° E small water reservoir (square water pond with 40 meter side). Spotted these two as they called, but while I moved around they also moved towards the opposite side of the pond. 2. 0630 they stayed at this position (12o'clock) as seen in the habitat shot. I thought they must be foraging soon and I won't be doing anything that will result in living this small pond. Thinking if I stay still they might come close while foraging, I got down and sat at the opposite edge of the pond. One of them left and went little bit right-middle (2 o'clock) about 5 meter away. 3. Then they kept busy in preening for almost 40 minutes. Meanwhile I kept motionless, with my eyes and ears documenting other birds. Some Indian Pond Heron (IPHE) and a White-throated Kingfisher (WTKI) came to forage. One of the IPHE and the WTKI did a minor dispute for a perching spot. 4. 0710 The second one joined the one at 12 o'clock and together they did some vocal communication. Activity increased with visible movement and increased calling. 5. 0718 Together, these two started moving in a curve towards me from my left. The closest was under 9 meter at 6 o'clock. As they reached 4 0'clock, one of them turned back towards left and the other went away. Both of them went away and settled at 3 o'clock and started diving (foraging), and then I decided to leave. The whole process was over under 2 minutes and while they came towards me & passed in front from left to right, I didn't move my eyes from the viewfinder at all and kept on pressing the shutter resulting in about 500 photos 😂. Definitely they were interested in me (all the time they kept eye contact while approaching me), and came to inspect this 'foreign' object at the edge of their habitat. 5. The close-up images mostly points to Tachybaptus ruficollis poggei, along with the distribution, when compared with https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/litgre1/cur/introduction#subsp

Technical information

Model

Canon EOS R8

Lens

RF100-500mm F4.5-7.1 L IS USM + EXTENDER RF1.4x

Focal length

700 mm

f-stop

f/10.0

Shutter speed

1/1250 sec

Dimensions

3257 pixels x 2171 pixels

Original file size

1.26 MB