Dr Manjeet Singh1
Banded Broadbill
FRIM (25.12.2008)..this picture of the Banded Broadbill was taken first..the 2nd picture after this is already posted in my Gallery..under the same heading...i just want to tell you how i met the bird..i am sure many of you'll have done so with the birds in your areas...lol....
...it was touching 11 am...stopped just behind a house on a hill..which was sloping down with clear under growth and at the end..the jungle..hot and humid..got one Tittilly's from my brewery...leaned against the house..gulped it down..oh my i felt realy cool..the ale...lol...by the time i had finished the ale..i had to go because i had to go... ..quickly ran down the low hill just at the fringe of the jungle..started watering the leaves...aaaaaahhhh...just about to finish..suddenly just 22 feet above on the tree branch i hear this sound...wheeow...very loud..then a rapid rising high piched bubbling trill..like a money on LSD...oh my God looked up..there was this Banded Broadbill..laughing away at me..quickly flipped my equipment in.. ...grabbed my Kowa..took some shots..still the bird kept on laughing and shouting..people this sound of this bird can achoed for miles in thro jungle..finely it looked away and took a few more shots..laughed back like a hynea at the bird and bolted..reached the tree near the house and down floops a giant squrell..on the grasss with it's belly up..with a anoyed look i said..damn..it why are you laughing...it turned with one hand under it;s head still laughing then said Dr Singh do you know what the Broadbill said.. i said no..it said.....looking down on you ...it said WHAT BIRD IS THAT.. ..it collopsed laughing..grumbling i bolted for the other end of FRIM..lol.....what a big mouth the Broadbill has dont you'll agree... ..hope you like this laughing one..Regards.
Banded Broadbill
FRIM (25.12.2008)..this picture of the Banded Broadbill was taken first..the 2nd picture after this is already posted in my Gallery..under the same heading...i just want to tell you how i met the bird..i am sure many of you'll have done so with the birds in your areas...lol....
...it was touching 11 am...stopped just behind a house on a hill..which was sloping down with clear under growth and at the end..the jungle..hot and humid..got one Tittilly's from my brewery...leaned against the house..gulped it down..oh my i felt realy cool..the ale...lol...by the time i had finished the ale..i had to go because i had to go... ..quickly ran down the low hill just at the fringe of the jungle..started watering the leaves...aaaaaahhhh...just about to finish..suddenly just 22 feet above on the tree branch i hear this sound...wheeow...very loud..then a rapid rising high piched bubbling trill..like a money on LSD...oh my God looked up..there was this Banded Broadbill..laughing away at me..quickly flipped my equipment in.. ...grabbed my Kowa..took some shots..still the bird kept on laughing and shouting..people this sound of this bird can achoed for miles in thro jungle..finely it looked away and took a few more shots..laughed back like a hynea at the bird and bolted..reached the tree near the house and down floops a giant squrell..on the grasss with it's belly up..with a anoyed look i said..damn..it why are you laughing...it turned with one hand under it;s head still laughing then said Dr Singh do you know what the Broadbill said.. i said no..it said.....looking down on you ...it said WHAT BIRD IS THAT.. ..it collopsed laughing..grumbling i bolted for the other end of FRIM..lol.....what a big mouth the Broadbill has dont you'll agree... ..hope you like this laughing one..Regards.