Ganesh H Shankar from India
Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016
Winner, Birds
taken with:
Nikon D810 + 200mm f2 lens; 1/500 sec at f5; ISO 400; Gitzo 5540LS tripod + Sachtler 0707 FSB-8 fluid head
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The Indian rose-ringed parakeets were not happy!
They had returned to their roosting and nesting hole high up in a tree......
in India’s Keoladeo National Park....
to find: that a Bengal monitor lizard had taken up residence!!!!
The birds immediately set about trying to evict the squatter.....
They bit the monitor lizard’s tail....
hanging on for a couple of seconds at a time....
until it retreated into the hole.....
They would then harass it when it tried to come out to bask.....
This went on for two days!!!!
unfortunately.....
the parakeets had to give up :-(
and left.... to try to find another place to rear their young....
well...thats nature!
anyway
enjoy!
by: Ganesh H Shankar
