Tickells Blue Flycatcher ( Nandi Hills )
For people who shoot mainly in weekends with limited time window it is mostly opportunistic birding. Though we have some idea of what we want to shoot hardly it works out that way. We go to the spot,scan the area and end up shooting anything that moves in the best possible way with the given circumstances. But once in a while we find birds which are preening or hanging around near their nest so it is possible to predict their behavior which means we can hang around in the same location for better shots. This applies to most birds and over the last weekend the pattern repeated itself with this Tickells blue flycatcher. Initially just saw a fleeing glimpse of this blue colored beauty. The conditions were very bad atleast from a photographic standpoint. Completely misty, the bird was in shade leading to a low shutter, open aperture and high ISO, a sure shot recipe for grainy and blurry image. The male was busy picking up insects and the female was collecting nesting material. Eventually in the middle of all the activity the male decided to move towards partial sunlight giving way to some decent shots.