Little Green Beeater

Description:

Slender shape/ Green with a bluish chin and black stripe across the eyes. Has a matchstick like protrusion beyond the tail which gives it a rather rude local name in Bangla. Otherwise, they are called Baanshpati which sort of means bamboo-leaf ...an apt description. It was hitting the poor insect likely a bee to get rid of the sting and many of my shots show a blur for a head!

Habitat:

These are supposedly residents of my state BUT I never see them except in winter. This time we have hosted a HUGE flock...about 500- ish but I only saw them fly overhead at dusk when they came to roost. These two sat on a tree about three houses away and I could shoot the photo, thanks to the zoom.

Notes:

There is a Red-vented bulbul in the photo too.