{"id":42420,"date":"2013-07-27T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=546dad8910bfa66958b6306b1d64ceaf"},"modified":"2019-12-23T00:33:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T11:33:03","slug":"where-do-i-land-blue-tailed-bee-eaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/where-do-i-land-blue-tailed-bee-eaters\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Do I Land? \u2013 Blue-tailed Bee-eaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another wonderful trip it was to the riverbed close to Mysore on our way to Bandipur. After waiting for quite a bit, these birds arrived one by one. I was thrilled when three were perched, never expecting a fourth one to appear. I really liked this moment where it almost looks like the fourth bird is pondering as to where to land.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"none\" style=\"clear:both;\"><figure class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 1034px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-iK5BySKI_dI\/UeSpvuBTecI\/AAAAAAAAAjw\/6YnX2Bu3UpA\/s1600\/Blue-tailed+Bee-eaters_AngadAchappa_1024px_ANG7922.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow external noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" fifu-lazy=\"1\" fifu-data-sizes=\"auto\" fifu-data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/res.cloudinary.com\/glide\/image\/fetch\/http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F-iK5BySKI_dI%2FUeSpvuBTecI%2FAAAAAAAAAjw%2F6YnX2Bu3UpA%2Fs1600%2FBlue-tailed%2BBee-eaters_AngadAchappa_1024px_ANG7922.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=75&amp;resize=75&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/res.cloudinary.com\/glide\/image\/fetch\/http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F-iK5BySKI_dI%2FUeSpvuBTecI%2FAAAAAAAAAjw%2F6YnX2Bu3UpA%2Fs1600%2FBlue-tailed%2BBee-eaters_AngadAchappa_1024px_ANG7922.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=100&amp;resize=100&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/res.cloudinary.com\/glide\/image\/fetch\/http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F-iK5BySKI_dI%2FUeSpvuBTecI%2FAAAAAAAAAjw%2F6YnX2Bu3UpA%2Fs1600%2FBlue-tailed%2BBee-eaters_AngadAchappa_1024px_ANG7922.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=150&amp;resize=150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/res.cloudinary.com\/glide\/image\/fetch\/http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F-iK5BySKI_dI%2FUeSpvuBTecI%2FAAAAAAAAAjw%2F6YnX2Bu3UpA%2Fs1600%2FBlue-tailed%2BBee-eaters_AngadAchappa_1024px_ANG7922.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=240&amp;resize=240&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/res.cloudinary.com\/glide\/image\/fetch\/http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F-iK5BySKI_dI%2FUeSpvuBTecI%2FAAAAAAAAAjw%2F6YnX2Bu3UpA%2Fs1600%2FBlue-tailed%2BBee-eaters_AngadAchappa_1024px_ANG7922.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=320&amp;resize=320&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/res.cloudinary.com\/glide\/image\/fetch\/http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F-iK5BySKI_dI%2FUeSpvuBTecI%2FAAAAAAAAAjw%2F6YnX2Bu3UpA%2Fs1600%2FBlue-tailed%2BBee-eaters_AngadAchappa_1024px_ANG7922.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=500&amp;resize=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/res.cloudinary.com\/glide\/image\/fetch\/http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F-iK5BySKI_dI%2FUeSpvuBTecI%2FAAAAAAAAAjw%2F6YnX2Bu3UpA%2Fs1600%2FBlue-tailed%2BBee-eaters_AngadAchappa_1024px_ANG7922.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=640&amp;resize=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/res.cloudinary.com\/glide\/image\/fetch\/http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F-iK5BySKI_dI%2FUeSpvuBTecI%2FAAAAAAAAAjw%2F6YnX2Bu3UpA%2Fs1600%2FBlue-tailed%2BBee-eaters_AngadAchappa_1024px_ANG7922.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=800&amp;resize=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/res.cloudinary.com\/glide\/image\/fetch\/http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F-iK5BySKI_dI%2FUeSpvuBTecI%2FAAAAAAAAAjw%2F6YnX2Bu3UpA%2Fs1600%2FBlue-tailed%2BBee-eaters_AngadAchappa_1024px_ANG7922.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=1024&amp;resize=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/res.cloudinary.com\/glide\/image\/fetch\/http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F-iK5BySKI_dI%2FUeSpvuBTecI%2FAAAAAAAAAjw%2F6YnX2Bu3UpA%2Fs1600%2FBlue-tailed%2BBee-eaters_AngadAchappa_1024px_ANG7922.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=1280&amp;resize=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/res.cloudinary.com\/glide\/image\/fetch\/http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F-iK5BySKI_dI%2FUeSpvuBTecI%2FAAAAAAAAAjw%2F6YnX2Bu3UpA%2Fs1600%2FBlue-tailed%2BBee-eaters_AngadAchappa_1024px_ANG7922.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=1600&amp;resize=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w\" fifu-data-src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/res.cloudinary.com\/glide\/image\/fetch\/http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F-iK5BySKI_dI%2FUeSpvuBTecI%2FAAAAAAAAAjw%2F6YnX2Bu3UpA%2Fs1600%2FBlue-tailed%2BBee-eaters_AngadAchappa_1024px_ANG7922.jpg?ssl=1\" width=\"1024\" border=\"0\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Blue-tailed Bee-eaters<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>Equipment used: Nikon D3S; Nikkor 600mm F4 VR; Gitzo 1325 tripod; Gitzo GH5380SQR ball head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another wonderful trip it was to the riverbed close to Mysore on our way to Bandipur. After waiting for quite a bit, these birds arrived one by one. I was thrilled when three were perched, never expecting a fourth one to appear. I really liked this moment where it almost looks like the fourth bird [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":2146898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[2483,5017,3846],"class_list":["post-42420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-angad-achappa","tag-blue-tailed-bee-eater","tag-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2146898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}