Well, I guess today must be my "lucky" day! Firstly, I had a butterfly land on my nose, sleeve & bag instead of on a leave, thus causing me a photograph of it....then later in the afternoon when the sun was not so hot, I decided to take a short walk with my camera to see if I could "catch" anything thing.I needn't walk far.....cos right beside me was this fruiting tree that had invited lots of birds to perch & feed there....Pink-necked Green Pigeon, Olive-winged Bulbul, Stripe-tit Babbler, Cream-vented Bulbul as well as the ever elusive Red-crowned Barbet. This is my second sighting of this bird and I wasn't gonna let it off without capturing it on my camera. Goodness knows when I'll see this beautiful bird again!
It was fighting & chasing all the other birds away from "his" tree and busy gobbling the fruits. Then he flew off and came back with his partner! So I managed to see a combined attack on the other birds! However, the Pigeons weren't gonna give up their feast readily so it was quite amusing watching them "chase" each other off......I managed to shoot this bird after about 1 hr when he felt that I was of no threat to him. I actually stood there for almost 2.5hrs just filling up my compact flash with pictures of him.
To my dear colleague, please do remember to put in your CF before you shoot any nature cos thinking back of what happened just now was really funny!
