Green Bee Eater and some other birds

This was a pretty interesting explanation of their strange flight patterns…

The bird has a rather graceful manner of predation making the entire exercise look almost effortless. This bee eater launches an aerial sortie after its prey (which is usually a bee) snapping it up in its bill and circling back gracefully on outstretched motionless wings to its perch…

Source: IndiaSite.com: Small Green Bee Eater

Here’s one of them preening itself…

Just sitting around…

I think this is an egret but I’m not 100% sure:

Eye to eye with a pigeon… its eye looks like the sun!

Most pictures taken in Masab Tank, a park in Hyderabad (entrance fee Rs 1/- ).
Camera: Olympus C-750