Crested treeswift female

Muthyala Maduvu, Anekal, Karnataka

This is an amazing perch and background which every birders were looking for this year. The female tree swift resting after flying around for long time.

This is female Treeswift which doesn’t have orange cheeks like the male bird. But the build is almost same like male. It was such a careful mother though. It eased to sit several minutes to protect her baby. It was such a lovely expression to watch the chick stretching its wings and feeling its mother touch and warmth. Gradually we see it growing up.

These are the two different trees among 3, where they nest this year. Birders was crazy about the first one because it gave some eye level view to take photographs and for the other one you need to take photographs from the ground. That is why most of the time you will get belly shot only.