Purple Rumped Sunbird (Nectarinia zeylonica)

03 September 2006

Hebbal Lake, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Canon EF 500mm f/4L IS and 1.4xII on Canon 1D Mark III
ISO 200, 1/640 @ f5.6 Evaluative Metering -1/3 Stop

Hebbal lake is probably one of the best place to shoot the sunbirds. They are very used to people and this makes it easy to photograph them here.