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Two days before i had seen a hoopoe here..tho still hadnt got a shot yet..parked my car at the road end shouldering my kowa i walked to the mud bridge connection the mangrove inlet to the other side..reached the bridge..heard a plop..in the stream on my right and this loud whee.sound...sharp..oh no a common kingfisher..for three years i have been trying to get this bird..had only glimes of it..quickly went tp the right of the bridge..couldnt see the bird but heard the sound again..squatted and started looking for gaps in the short shrub like trees with thorns on the edge..both side o the bridge covered by thorn's about 4 feet hight..finely saw a gap..oh no..just 22feet down..there setting on a dead magrove branch was the bird..but i could only see the body..the head was covered by a branch running from the right to the left in the hole of the gap..mid way...took out my four feet pegging string..never be with out a pegging string while birding you hear...lol...about 1 and half feet from the right inserted my right hand ..while my left hand in the gap i tried to get my hands to meet so that i could grab the string in my left thumb and index finger after lot of thron pricks..fimely got the string..quickly tied the string to the branch near my right hand...then waddling to the right..still sqatting..started pullig the string..watching the branch..being raised above..tied it and peeped in the hole..lol.no still need more pull..pulled and tied it a branch on the right again...and slowly waddled back..oh my there it was..but guys..looking away..couldnt see the full beak..i wanted to //pish..lol....then realised my bladder was full..at a age about 50..if we have to go we have to go...lol....quickly waddled back to the other side were the bird couldnt see me..stood..looked to my right..200 meters away was the road end from were i had come to my left..50 feet away the mud road had 90% angle..now who will come to this God forsaken place in the hot sun..unded what i had to do and pushed my hips into the throrny foliage...worried about thorns..with a sigh let go..aaaaaaaaahhh...suddenly while i was in mid stream ..heard the mo-bike on my left..(..i dont think any one can stop doing what he or she is doing in mid-stream..lol..)there was this boy.on his (12yrs)..on his honda cub..he switiched off his mo..waved at me and started pushing the bike to cross..blimey..i was still at mid-stream..couldnt let go because of thorns which will....hurt ...lol..something feasome....pushed my hips deeper in the foliage trying to hide my body parts..crying....by the time the boy is stopped behind me..(oh no my patient a orange asli family who do come to my practice often)..suddenly he pop's his head thro my left elbow..( i am still holding on to dear life)..worried about the thorn pricks..looking up he say..Dr Uncle bird isnt it ...i knod my head..quickly he with draws his head and push's his bike to the main road..by the time he reachs there i have fineshed..he starts his bike..revving he makes his bike stand on the back wheel like a proud stallion..and ..and his shout achos back to me..Dr Uncle i saw "THE Bird"..howling with laughter he takes off..me..laughing i shook my fist at him..quickly squatting..again i waddled back to my kowa..as i peep thro the hole all around is the green foliage and the bird still setting there..i pish once..then again..it looks towards my kowa and i take a shot..laughing i jump up...the bird takes of with a sour look and i have got my lifer after three yrs...i have just croped the picture..then used neat image and the for sharping and resize..used the Easy thumbnail..hope you liked the picture..still lauhing ..come on people do see the picture.Thank you in advance..regards.

Story Copy Right-Dr Manjeet Singh.

 

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