[Leica] Keoladeo National Park

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

The next installment of photographs starts off with four shots of a pair of
squabbling Glossy Ibis. I was photographing something i the diametrically
opposite direction when I turned around and saw this presumably territorial
squabble starting. I had no time to change the settings, so I ended up with
a set of grossly underexposed images, but with fine, dramatic action. As
the Glossy Ibis is a dark, muddy reddish brown in colour, there was no real
colour of note in the frames, so I converted the lot to B&W, and then set
about recovering whatever detail was possible - only the last shot is
processed differently, more of a silhouette:

Squabble 1: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/WIndia/
Bharatpur/Bharatpur-20170122-2087.jpg.html

Squabble 2: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/WIndia/
Bharatpur/Bharatpur-20170122-2102.jpg.html

Squabble 3: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/WIndia/
Bharatpur/Bharatpur-20170122-2103.jpg.html

Squabble 4: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/WIndia/
Bharatpur/Bharatpur-20170122-2105.jpg.html

Next on the agenda is a Purple Sunbird in breeding plumage:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/WIndia/
Bharatpur/Bharatpur-20170122-2128.jpg.html

Two migrant geese from Central/Northern Asia - the Bar-headed Goose and the
Greylag Goose. The former is arguably the highest flying bird in the world,
flocks having been seen flying over Mount Everest, but what I find even
more amazing is that they cross the Himalayas in one go, non stop!

Landing: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/WIndia/
Bharatpur/Bharatpur-20170122-2173.jpg.html

High Flyer: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/WIndia/
Bharatpur/Bharatpur-20170122-2047.jpg.html

Finally, a Purple Heron keeping watch early one morning:

Lookout: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/WIndia/
Bharatpur/Bharatpur-20170122-1227.jpg.html

Please see LARGE

Criticism and comments, as ever, welcome!

Cheers
Jayanand