Chestnut Backed Owlet

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Having just pent a couple of days on bee-eaters, I really appreciate your amazing endeavour in recording Indian birds. This ones feathers are particularly impressive.

Thanks for the appreciation Linda Wilson maam ...

OWLS OF INDIA-24 [ Its a bird Endemic to Sri Lanka. But Enlisted in BIRDS OF INDIA book by Bikram Grewal Sir. So I paint this species under this series.] PAKHI DEKHUN PAKHI CHINUN # 756... (Observe the Bird and recognize)... CHESTNUT BACKED OWLET .. WATERCOLOUR ...A4....2017...[ From the ref. Photo of INTERNET] ... The Chestnut-backed Owlet[Glaucidium castanotum ] is a very small owl with no ear-tufts. Some authors spell the specific castanonotum Description: The facial disc is indistinct. Eyes are bright yellow. The cere is dusky greenish white the bill is yellowish or greenish-horn. The mantle and the back are bright chestnut, with a few blackish bars. There are narrow rufous-ochre bars on the dark brown head. The scapulars have whitish outer webs with blackish borders. There is a large white area on the neck. The upper breast is barred dark brown and ochre, forming a pectoral band beneath the white patch on the neck. The lower breast, belly and flanks are streaked blackish on a whit