Bathing beauty

Posted by Ray (Bangkok, Thailand) on 14 November 2007 in Animal & Insect.

Tiny Sunbird takes a bathe in a shallow pool in a leaf. Sunbirds are the Asian equivalent of the South American Hummingbird. They mainly eat nectar, but also take insects sometimes.

Canon EOS 40D
1/80 second
F/8.0
ISO 400
280 mm

bird
thailand
sunbird