Then lot of crows come in.
Not to mention the squirrels that frequently build their homes inside mine.
Also add the cats that roam around.
The occasional parrots that fly by.
A hawk or two have visited us too.
We even had an owl come inside our house long back.
And the latest one is this Kingfisher. I saw it 2 days back, but before I could get my camera, it flew away. Today, I managed to capture it, but from quite a distance. I went some 15 feet near it to get a closer look, but probably this was one camera-shy bird and it just escaped to the neighboring house.
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That is a Loten's sunbird, a common insectivorous bird, which has a very distinctive call that goes "zweeeet zweeeet", extremely identifiable with our Madras.
Of the varieties of kingfisher that are common here, the Small blue kingfisher and the Stork billed kingfisher have a light brown chest, the Lesser pied kingfisher is black and white spotted, and the Black capped Kingfisher and the White breasted kingfisher have off-white breast.
You cannot be more wrong.
The bird that I saw is very much the White-throated or White-breasted Kingfisher.
Look closely at the beak man. You can find the difference right there. And you can even see the white throat.
I also took couple of more pictures later in the day where you can see the difference even more clearly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-throated_Kingfisher
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loten's_Sunbird
You're the better judge, as the photograph was totally crappy.
A 'BIRD' which was to be part of the house is not yet in ..so do not call it zoo yet!!!
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