Birds eat Cricket

15 February 2025

Birds eat Cricket

Tiger Shrike and White-throated Kingfisher eat Cricket (Gryllus sps)

White-throated Kingfisher perched on metal beam crieket on it's beak
Nice breakfast
A kingfisher has made my backyard its home, and it’s quite the character! It often starts calling around 7 AM, and I love watching it perch on the metal frame just outside my kitchen as it keeps an eye out for insects. However, it’s usually too dark for me to take a good picture at that hour, and the little bird gets startled by even the tiniest movement I make.


To make photography a bit easier, I use crickets as bait. I toss it on the grass and wait.
Sure, within a minute that Kingfisher swopwed down to catch the cricket.
The Tiger shrike and Magpie Robin also joined the feeding frenzy

two crickets in plastic contena , Gryllus sp
Cricket (Gryllus sps)

I bought these crickets from the fishing tackle shop, which sells 20 cickets for RM2
Bird eating cricket
Tiger shrike

Bird Kingfisher
White-throated Kingfisher


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