Banded-bay cuckoo

canon 7d, canon 300 mm with 2x, f/5.6, 1/1600, ISO-400, shot at Kolhapur, April 14

Rare and lovely image. Nice eye contact and beautiful cross-barred underparts. Thanks for sharing.SaktiWild

Excellent Dr. Katre. One thing I notice about your images is that subject is always sharp & background very softly & nicely diffused. Is there any special technique deployed to achieve it.

Loved the image & the bird. TFS.

Anil Kumar Verma

Thanks friends....Anil Kumar, there is no special technique, every DSLR, because of larger sensor, gives such image....

Good to see this species. We don't often see the image of this cuckoo. The underparts are distinctive. What time of the day was it shot? Thanks for sharing.
Cheers,
Sabyasachi

Thanks Sabyasachi, shot at about 11.00 a.m....