Eurasian Golden Oriole

[Murugan Anantharaman]

Spotted this lovely bird with its mate this morning from my terrace. Backyard birding is not that good this year because of some buildings coming up near by. Spotted the Oriole pair, Bulbuls,Coppersmith barbets, a White breasted kingfisher and a Fantail flycatcher today. Also got a chance to work on my new Nikon 300mm f4 which got delivered just yesterday :). Now to buy a 1.4x tc to complete the combination. This is a cropped image.

Nikon D7000, f/4, SS 1/640, ISO 320, ec +.3, 300mm.

[Saktipada Panigrahi]

Nice Image. Male Indian Golden Oriole (Oriolus kundoo ). Thanks for sharing.SaktiWild

[Abhirup Dutta Gupta]

FANTASTIC image!!!!!

[Shyamala Kumar]

A great inauguration for your new lens . Nice colours and eye contact.You seem to have all the beautiful birds coming into your backyard.All the best for future birdwatching with your new lens.

[Abhishek Jamalabad]

Nice one Murugan! Really love the eye contact here. Only wish the patch of light was a couple of centimetres to the left i.e. on the bird's eye. There is a bit of noise evident here.

Congrats on the new lens.

[Roopak Gangadharan]

nice eye level shot of this beauty murugan. Noise seems high for ISO 320. Congrats on ur new lens.

TFS
Roopak

[Rajan Kanagasabai]

Beautiful shot and congrats on the new piece of glass. The tricky lighting has actually helped you test the response of the lens to tough light patterns. Agree with Abhishek on the light patch a little towards the eye - would have made this beautiful composition simply magical . . . . good luck with the new glass.

thanks for sharing

Rajan