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I have never seen this bird before, if you can identify it I would be

interested in knowing. I shot this on Kauaii, Hawaii.

Radu, Tony, I followed your advice re: sharpening and Bicubic

Sharpener when saving for PN. Thanks again. What do you think?

A very nicely composed beautiful shot, Linda!

It's a male, White-rumped Shama. 

The Hui Manu Society (a bunch of bored locals) imported them from Malaysia in the 1930s  along with a heap of others to spruce up their birding opportunities.  Of course some of their imports carried diseases so that almost all of Kauai's forest birds can now only be found at higher elevations.

Were you at the Chocolate Farm too?

Ruud, thanks for stopping by.

Steve, thank you, that is good to know. He was very tame, I walked right up to him and he just sat and posed for me. I bought a flower identification book, but barely had time to go through that.Kauai had a lot of unusual and beautiful birds that I had never seen before, the flora and fauna was also so interesting. Of course chickens over ran the entire island, even at the highest elevation. There was an abundance of  little white Egret, and Red-crested Cardinal, Myna, also not native. I recognized the Myna from my childhood when they were popular pets. We went to the coffee plantation but not the Chocolate Farm. I didn't see that in any of our travel info. Kauai is definitely a photographer's paradise.  On the last day my auto focus stopped working. I had to resort to manual focusing. I was so disappointed in the images from that day. I hope we will go back again. Again thanks for the identification.

Best wishes,

Linda

I had to ask because we were there from Feb 22-29 and there was a similar, very cooperative WwS there.  It would have been nutty if we crossed paths and didn't know it.  We went to the Coffee plantation but it was the rainy day so no tour, just java.

I got off a few shots while I was on the Island, have a peek when you get time.

Aloha!

We were there from the 10th to the 20th of February, so we just missed you. We stayed in Poipu Beach at Koloa Landing. Now I am curious, where did you stay?

I looked at your photos, I made one quick comment. It looks like we took some of the same shots from identical locations. I will be back later on when I have more time.

This is a very beautiful bird composition,and thanks both ,you and Steve, for the information! I like the triangled 'frame"of the branches, the  male colors and the details of its long tail!(seducing the femals....;-)) the shallow  green BG is helping to enhance its beauty.I understand you renjoyed your visit. Nice work Linda!

Beautiful...

Nice DoF, nice colors on the bird. I appreciate your decision to keep the upper branch with the leaves. Regards.

Thanks for commenting.

Pnina, I was pleasantly surprised when walking through a grove of trees and almost walked right into this little guy. He just sat there on his branch and looked at me while I took his picture. There were quite a few birds that I encountered during our trip that did this. I guess they are getting used to posing for tourists.

Kallol, thank you.

Jayanti, thanks. I wanted to keep the feel of walking through the trees and coming upon this lovely little bird unexpectedly. 

Best wishes,

Linda

Linda,

  Beautiful bird with wonderful colors & composition.  Take care, Patsy

Thanks so much for stopping by.