Kashmir flycatcher..post Number 1000 wooow!!

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Love this Flycatcher, Pratim, very similar looking to mine in Wales, but much more colourful. The flight is so recognisable isn't it, that sudden up and down again whenever an insect is spotted. I had one nesting here three years ago, but have not seen one in my own garden since although there are one or two about. Lovely painting.

Just an addition to say I have looked at your gallery, which is fantastic, what a dedicated ornithologist and painter you are. I had no idea there were so many different species of Flycatcher for instance. The ultramarine one is superb.

Thanks a lot Ruth Dolan maam for the Kind words and encouragement ...

PAKHI DEKHOON PAKHI CHINOON #625... OBSERVE THE BIRD AND RECOGNIZE...KASHMIR FLYCATCHER... WATERCOLOUR...A4.. 2016...[From the photograph of Megh Roy Choudhury MAAM ] ... The Kashmir flycatcher (Ficedula subrubra) is a small passerine bird in the flycatcher family Muscicapidae. At one time it was considered to be a subspecies of the red-breasted flycatcher, Ficedula parva. This is an insectivorous species which breeds in the north-west Himalayas in the Kashmir region of the Indian Subcontinent. It is migratory and winters in the hills of central Sri Lanka and the Western Ghats of India. The Kashmir flycatcher breeds in deciduous forest with dense undergrowth, nesting in a hole in a tree and laying 3-5 eggs which are incubated by the female. It winters in gardens, tea estates, forest edges, and open areas within forest, generally above 750 m. Most individuals leave the breeding grounds in September, arriving in Sri Lanka in October and departing again in late March. One of the best plac