Birds in my garden - Coppersmith Barbet

Many of you may not have noticed a soft continuous tooting in your neighborhood. The manner of the call? Experts named it as metronomic. It is a bird call from a tiny Barbet bird from a spot at the tallest branch of a tree within your park.

This page will show you images of this colorful little Bird. Barbers and members from this family which are green birds with multi colored patches around their heads. That makes them, a well sort after trophy by Bird photographers Most of the Barbets, in fact, all Barbets are forest birds. Even the Coppersmith Barbet is a forest edge bird though it is a bird seen more often in parks. It keeps to tall trees in urban surrounding and I suppose is attracted to the numerous Macarthur Palms trees with fruits throughout the years. From where they are perched, far away from human interaction.

It is s fruit eater.

However when nesting, they would choose a site with human traffic, to keep away predators. This one right in the middle of our garden

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When the bird came down low. It is half hidden

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On branches with height, a well exposed bird. Sorry, this picture was taken in very early years, with a rudimentary camera.

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Around the same time or same batch of pictures

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Ha! ha! still the same tree, different bird and different camera used.

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Now the usefulness of the tall Matoa Tree? The barbet stood proud in the open

Sometimes in the lower branches too.

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And of course inside the tree among the foliages. It needed to roost too.

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Other times, doing house keeping

Or sun basking

A good subject for photography

These are the more recent pictures.

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All these shot were taken when the birds were guarding their nest.

There will be more pictures of the Coppersmith Barbets in another write up, where I feature them in the nesting process

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