| Last year during my visits to this enigmatic wood, I got the glimpse of Verditer flycatcher from the distance.
These birds which disappear after giving very short glimpse and vanish are the ones, which always force one to visit the location again and again.
As I sat under the tree near the stream, with my new camouflage shirt, I noted the Red breasted flycatchers, fantail flycatcher, Ioras and tiny white eye.
The blue verditer on the scene appeared on the scene from nowhere. After carefull inspection of the steram and its surroundings, the bird landed on the rock
in the stream.
The verditer flycatcher was photographed near the water stream at Sinhagad valley near Pune, in November 2008.
The flycatcher came to the stream for bath. Before taking the bath, verditer looked around and inspected
the surroundings carefully.
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The white browed, fantail flycatcher keeps moving all the time, catching the insects in the air, while hoping from one rock to the other in the water stream.
The image was taken in November 2008, at the Sinhagad valley.
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The verditer flycatcher was photographed at Sinhagad valley stream. The flycatcher
took bath for long time and was not bothered of the photographers, once it entered the stream. The image was taken in November 2008.
| The meaning of verditer is "a pale greenish blue color, like that of the pigment verditer".
| The Red breasted flycatcher was photographed near the water stream at Sinhagad valley near Pune.
The flycatcher came to the stream for bath. It followed verditer for the bath,
the bird looked all around. This male bird is tiny but very cute. The image was taken in November 2008.
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Across the stream, the paddy field was filled with the scally breasted Munias.
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The munias, were having feast in the paddy field and the grass around it.
| The red breasted flycather male was inspecting the stream surroudings with great interest.
| As the verditer flycatcher entered, suddenly a pair of red breasted flycatcher also decided to enter the stream. The female flycatcher prefered the
stagnant puddle of the water nearby and had short bath. The image was taken in November 2008, at the Sinhagad valley.
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Female red breasted Flycatcher at the Sinhagad Valley. The image was taken in November 2008, at the Sinhagad valley.
| Inspired by the idea of bath of verditer and red breasted, the oriental magpie splashed in the stream and had nice bath.
| Red breasted flycatcher.
| After having, first round of bath, verditer reappeared at the stream for the second round.
| In the second round the verditer bathed and bathed till we got bored of taking its snaps.
| Red breasted flycather.
| And the female paradise flycather flew by along the stream through the bushes, chasing the counterpart.
| Bath of verditer.
| female Shikra
| Ultramarine flycatcher male.
| Morphing Paradise flycatcher
| Tickell Blue Flycatcher, Sinhagad Valley, January 2009
| Red breasted Flycatcher, Sinhagad Valley, Pune, January 2009
| Tickell's Blue Flycatcher, Sinhagad Valley, Pune, January 2009
| Asian Paradise flycatcher male, Sinhagad Valley, January 2009
| Red breasted flycatcher, Sinhagad Valley, January 2009
| Red breasted flycatcher female, Sinhagad Valley, January 2009
| White-eye, Sinhagad Valley, January 2009
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