Birdie in the Wild series 13

Today went exploring into the undergrowth of the retention pond land near my office. It was a fruitful outing and I manage to photograph an exotic bird which looks like a wild pheasant. My friend say its a female koel.It sure havea beautiful tail. I only manage to snap one photo before it was attacked by a pair of Orioles ....territorial birds The overcast sky spoil it all but you can still see some details of the silhouette.



The other one is a heron or egret at the retention pond outcrop its wings span at least 5 ft when in flight and white in colour. but when it perch on banana leaf it back is brownish and the wings just fold inside just like a Tomcat F14 on an aircraft carrier. Photo taken at about 40m away so it is quite huge considering cropping and zooming in at 300mm