Prinia Alley –Uran 27 Jan ’07

Late last night I got an sms from Rakesh and we decided to go to Uran today. The toss up was between Uran & Karnala. Uran it was, since I was more familiar with Uran.

We decided to concentrate towards the end if the “Prinia Alley” wherem we had found waders near the track, the last time we were here. But, today the water was much lesser, and the birds much further away. We then decided to walk back and find us some “Prinias” ! In the marsh near the begining of the track, we saw Nothern Shovellers and Pochards. Got one shot off but the birds were quite far away. The marsh harrier gave us a few  fly bys but, was quite far off to photograph.

I rather like this Prinia photograph since it has a kind of breezy look.

The spot today that we were able to photograph was, at the very begining of the track, just off the JNPT police station. The birds popped in and out of the bushes, and quite close at that. Mainly there was a Plain Prinia pair and, an Ashy Prinia that we were able to photograph, up close.

Here is the Ashy Prinia

Yes we did see the Red Avadavats but as usual, they kept a fair distance from us, flighty creatures that they are!

The Plain Prinias from today. Got some really nice and varied backgrounds 🙂

And my favourite shot of the morning is this one above.

The Prinia with an attitude!

The more I use flash for fill in, the more I am convinced that intelligent flash usage really helps bring out the details in the feather of the birds.