Black Kite and Ashy Drongo (subspecies: leucogenis 白頰卷尾)
20111027, Southern HK Island
(sorry for the poor photo quality, the birds were far away, and I am still sadly sticking in the era of photographing with 8X40 binocular + normal DC)
Actually it was the Ashy Drongo which flew from a higher level to a lower level of the tree and got so near to the Black Kite. Yet I don't know why the Ashy Drongo did so.
I think they were about less then 3 metres apart.
I think both of them have cool pose here
both: "Who are you" lovely eye contact
both facing to the right
both "head down"
They stayed like this for 2-3 minutes. The Ashy Drongo left when it saw the Black Kite left
I hope next time when they met, the Black kite won't eat the Drongo up. I know Black Kites usually eat dead body of other animals, but animal behavior could be unpredictable....
By the way I think the Ashy Drongo was fearless, it stayed there as if it didn't know that the Black kite was a raptor.
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Last edited by cyanophile at 10/11/2011 22:00 ]
