Brown Shrike eating a small frog

 

Food for the King

This kingfisher is from the same pond where the stork-billed kingfisher was photographed feeding on small Puyu fish.

The white-throated here probably catch the same fish.

EDIT: After searching the internet, I found that this is a young Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus), characterized by its brownish-gray body colour and distinctive vertical stripes.

white-throated kingfisher  (Halcyon smyrnensis)

King with fish = Kingfisher

ready to swallow

 

Juvenile Yellow-vented Bulbul - training to hunt for food

Yellow-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus goiavier analis)

Practicing hunting for food

Playing with young bamboo leaf

sharpen its beak, eye  coordination

 I saw the same thing in Juvenile Magpie Robin, in May 2010  HERE

Birds eat Spanish Cherry fruit

 

Spanish Cherry (Mimusops elengi)  Tanjong Tree.Bullet Wood

Pokok Tanjung, Spanish Cherry tree

This tree was planted by a housing developer just 2 meters from my house's perimeter wall. The fruit ripens in July after flowering in April.

Also known as "bullet wood," this is a strong and tough wood. I have pruned it a few times, and even the small branches are hard to cut with a parang. After the fruiting is over, I will give it another prune.

  

Tanjong Tree, Bunga Tanjung or Spanish Cherry (Mimusops elengi)

The fruit is about 2-3 cm in size, yellow-red when ripe.

Yellow-vented foraged in Spanish Cherry tree

Yellow-vented bulbul (pycnonotus goiavier)

I also sported Asian Glossy Starling (Aplonis panayensis strigata) and Javan Myna (Acridotheres javanicus) eating the fruits, but unable to photograph it.

 The fruits are too big to swallow whole, so the bulbul just nibbles the exocarp.

I have documented this bubul eating fucus fruits, Fucus Benjamina  HERE

The bird eats the sweet mesocarp the fleshy middle layer of the pericarp of a fruit.

I collect the dry flower, the half-eaten fruit, and the seeds discarded by the bird.

Brown Shrike caught a frog

Brown Shrike (Lanius cristatus) caught a small frog

look I got something big for breakfast

store the food on the wire

the frog is too big to be eat whole, so it is left hanging at the sharp wire, may be eats latter without disturbance of  a photographer 

 

White-throated Kingfisher eats small Frog

White-throated Kingfisher (Halcyon smyrnensis perpulchra)

loud Call

waiting patiently for food

perched on a lamp post

diving into a monsoon  drain

and got this small frog (probably Polypedates sps)

bring it on to a favorite wire fence

ready to eat

swallow it whole

fly away to another location

Yellow-vented Bulbul food for juveniles

Saw this Bulbul collecting many types of foods, and bringing them to a Hibiscus shrub in my front yard.

These are  the pictures that I took over many days

Yellow-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus goiavier analis) eats Darkling Beetles larva (mealworm)

catching a spider on the  poisonous Nerium oleander tree

and flew away to feed the chicks

termite swarmers

yellow dragonfly

perched on the concrete parameter wall with termite swarmers

on the metal beam with a bee on it's beak

on a cow grass with termite swarmers

banana

robbing a spider from its web

unknown insect, ?spider

chasing a butterfly - Striped Albatros -male (below)

fighting for food

Perch and waiting on a banana stalk, looking around for predators or potential enemies, before feeding the chicks.

 

unknown berries

Stay vigilance guarding the nest in this hibiscus tree shrub. I  didn't see the nest, didn't want to disturb it.