“It was truly a once-in-a-lifetime moment,” kingdomstv wrote. »
Rahul Singh is a wildlife photographer who has managed to take many amazing photos with a wide range of different animals. species.
These include elephants, deer, jackals, monkeys and rhinos. As beautiful as they are, his true passion is capturing photos of the colorful birds he can find nesting in his hometown.
It was the moment that left him stunned.
“I visited a place where there were bushes of these ornamental banana trees to take pictures of sunbirds sucking the nectar. »
“Everything was going as usual when suddenly I was shocked that the crimson sunbird started taking a bath in the water stored in the banana flower petal. »
The flower with red petals in these photos is called the banana flower, and it has collected water from the morning drizzle in one of its petals.
The lesser crimson sunbird, which only spans 4 inches in length, took the opportunity to cool off on a hot day.
After filling up on nectar, the mini songbird cooled off in the petal “bathtub”.
It was a unique moment for Rahul, in all his years of bird watching he had never seen anything like this.
“I was literally stunned to see this unusual behavior, I held down the shutter on my camera while the bird took a bath. »
Rahul then posted the photos on his Instagram. He was clearly ecstatic to have been in the right place at the right time to capture this magical moment.
“It was truly a once-in-a-lifetime moment,” Rahul said. “It’s amazing how nature can surprise us. »
