White-Browed Fantail - Rhipidura aureola
This was a snatched shot from a safari truck. Follow up in two Sri Lanka bird books narrowed down the identification and that black mohican stripe and broad white supercilium and brow is the give away. The clue is in the name.
I got a glimpse of this bird - nothing more or less and this is the best of 3 shots (no long lense as yet).
So armed with this poor shot I have now discovered that this is in the family of "Monarch Flycatchers and Fantails" - the same family as Asian Paradise Flycatcher of which I can share and even worse photo in due course. My own Fantail here apparently wafts his tail about to disturb insects and flush them from hiding spots.
I do remember this being at the end of a long drive where bird after bird was appearing. I cannot wait to go back.
I leave you with Spotted Deer to make up.
We are planning a trip to Tanzania this year. I really need the new camera. I am definately going to spend my retirement in the bush - one way or another. If I bump into elephants, tigers, pandas and pythons along the way while finding my birds I think it will just be a bonus.
White-Browed Fantail - Rhipidura aureola
Yala - Sri Lanka
April 2011
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