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Yellow-vented Bulbul are very common bird in our garden and park! Don't know the trend or whether it would be the same pair, but are caught nesting oh! so often. Most times the nest site are almost reachable by hand or within touch. Not ethical to climb up and peep at the nest. We kept our distances. This time, a nest is found at eye level. Pray that this nesting would be successful to allow me to follow through till fledging 4th Day
The nest must have being going for days but this was the first the picture taking started 5th Day
Looks like hatching would be soon! 6th Day
Yes! first day saw babies, a pair of them in nest. Eyes still not opened yet
Parent standing guard over nest 7th Day
Parent getting very conscious, a quickie but blurred picture before I rushed off. The chicks clearly alert and waiting to be fed 8th Day The mother brought the feed back. Both chicks were very responsive. Eyes still not opened yet. Through instinct, they know when and how to reach out!
Heavy feeding had started! Most times, one bird will get preferred and grows stronger and faster while the second could be abandoned. Hopefully in this nesting both chicks would come out healthy and equally 9th Day
It has being a very wet day with small breaks in weather, not easy for the parent to collecting ideal food. So this first one look like a fruit
10th Day
After observing for a while, the chicks though blind at this time remaining in a dormant most times, response to sounds
Some kind of sound that was too soft to be picked up by us. Here is another occasion of false alarm when both chicks kept a stand by pose. 11th Day Yet another dull and wet day. Though very light drizzle, the surroundings was quite bright. I still have to up the ISO to 1250 to get decent shots
Everything about the nest and chicks were good and normal. Point to note for this day is that the eyes of the chicks still closed 12th Day This day being a weekend, those working class found time to catch up with this frenzy, there was no chance for the parents to be doing any feeding as it world confirm the existence of the fragile chicks.
Then before noon, the rain sets in again. It drove the crowd away and also prevented me from following up.
By late afternoon with an umbrella,
I had to get my record for the day.
Both parents were present
frantically making up the lost time of the day.
The birds both visibly still spooked but I left as fast as I showed up. Could see that eyes of the chick partially opened today.
Got a picture from Rose showing the Fledged chick in another tree - Well done parents. |
