Saturday, June 11, 2016

Green Bee-eater at Jakkur Lake, Bangalore

At Jakkur Lake in north Bangalore you can come across many colorful birds. One of them is Green Bee-eater.



They are richly coloured bird.This is a slender bird that is 9 inches long with about 2 inches of elongated central tail-feathers. The entire plumage is bright green and the crown and upper back are tinged with golden rufous. 




A black line runs in front of and behind the eye. The iris is crimson and the bill is black while the legs are dark grey.


They feed on insects, especially bees, wasps and ants. They can be seen mainly in grassland

20 comments:

Unknown said...

Gorgeous birds! Very pretty colours.

Judy Biggerstaff said...

Beautiful bird, love his colors.

sandyland said...

splendor

DeniseinVA said...

Extraordinary! A beautiful bird and marvelous photography.

tiptoethruphylsgarden.blogspot.com said...

beautiful bird,thanks for sharing,phyllis

Little Wandering Wren said...

A very attractive bird, if I might say so! I can't say I've ever seen one :)
Wren x

krishna said...

beautiful bird...

Ranjana's craft blog said...

OMG! So cute

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

What a beauty, Rajesh!
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Claire Justine said...

Aww, beautiful bird :)

Bushra Muzaffar said...

Pretty little bird!

Anonymous said...

What a beautiful bird!

Margaret Birding For Pleasure said...

What a beautiful Bee Eater.

Nette Cecilia said...

A very beutiful bird ,Nette

Anonymous said...

What a pretty bird!

Adam Jones said...

Superb!

Abhijit Ray said...

Such beautiful little bird. Great picture.

Ravish Mani said...

Beautiful :)

Yogi Saraswat said...

Very Beautiful capture !!

Amit Agarwal said...

very pretty!