Mukto Bihango | মুক্ত বিহঙ্গ

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There is a small jheel near my house, where different types of bird can be spotted during different season. I visit the place frequently when I am at my native place. Because of the geographical position and for being a well-wooded area, the place is popular among birds. That day I was standing on the road beside the jheel and was searching for birds. I saw this bird on a electric wire above a crop-field. That was first time I saw this bird. I captured its photo and later I had found that the bird was Ruous Rufous-backed Shrike.

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I got this image on the same day I clicked the second photo of the Common Myna. I went to my university hostel with Sibaprasad, my hostel friend. We used to visit hostel after completing our degree also. It is because of our attraction and love towards our hostel. From the roof of our hostel, I saw this bird sitting on a tree and captured its photo.

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I cannot remember about the first image. I had captured the second image inside Jadavpur University. I was on my way to gate number 4 and beside the road I saw this myna sitting on a notice board. I was carrying my camera with me. So, I did not waste time and I got this beautiful image.

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The first photo of the Indian Roller was captured at Garidara on the same day, I captured the photo of the bee-eater. The second photo was taken beside a river near my house. I cannot recall much about the story behind the second photo. I can remember that I and Shubhajit da had went to the riverside to see a bamboo bridge across the river. There I saw this bird sitting on a tree and captured its photo.

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When I was in my 4th year of B.E. course, I went to Gadiyara with my classmates for a picnic. It took about 3.5-4 hours to reach the place from Kolkata and during that time we had enjoyed a lot in the bus. We had taken everything for cooking and we had also hired 3-4 cooks for that. So, we had no work once we reached there. I borrowed the camera from my friend Soumik and started walking along the river bank. I spotted the bee-eater about one kilometers away from the picnic spot. I had clicked the above two photos there.

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Before my marriage when I was in a relationship with my wife I used to visit Cooch Behar Raj Palace with her. One day we were walking on the road behind the palace. There I found the drongo sitting on a cable and captured its photo.

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The two pictures given above are captured on two different days. The first picture of the male bird was captured on the day of Saraswati Puja. The morning was foggy and the Sun was lurking behind joint cover of fog and cloud. However the visibility improved with time. I bathed early that morning to get ready for the Puja rituals. After having some prasad after Puja I was walking down the street in front of my home. Then I saw this male bird sitting on a bamboo fence beside the street. It was singing with a sweet repetitive “Swee-ee” tone to attract its female partner. It was not scared of my close presence. So, I used my camera Nikon Coolpix L20 to capture some photos of it. This is how my journey of Bird Photography has started. I cannot remember much about the photo of the female bird. I can remember only that the bird was sitting in a mango tree beside my house and it was searching for food that afternoon. It was captured with a different camera Nikon Coolpix P510.