Look Up Photos of the day

The clear blue sky makes a good background for the tops of trees. Here is an album taken May 1, 2013 with our HS25EXR camera.




All photos courtesy of Dr. Ernesto P. Adorio.

Sunbird

Most sunbirds have beautiful coloring but we only get a black headed with the requisite yellow plummage. I need to shoot again, and I hope I can find another specimen.

May 2, 2013

I was able to shoot a male sunbird with my camera. This time, the metallic tinge is very prominent!



The following photos are of a female sunbird.

Bird	Nectarinia jugularis (Linnaeus, 1766)
Synonym	Cinnyris jugularis, Certhia jugularis, Cyrtostomus ornatus, Leptocoma jugularis
Common Name	Olive-backed sunbird, Yellow-breasted sunbird, Yellow-bellied sunbird
Photographer	Dr Ernesto Adorio
Camera	Fujifilm HS25EXR digital camera
Location	Bacolod City,Negros Occidental
Date	April 30, 2013
Acknowledgment	Romana delos Reyes(identification

Golden Belied Flyeater, Gerygone

this bird looks like a newly hatched chicken which can fly! I saw it this morning in one of the bougainvilleas in the backyard of the house of our parents.



I thought it was a sunbird, but this bird does not have a long beak.

Bird	Gerygone sulphurea
Common Name	Golden-bellied Flyeater, Gerygone, Pipit-bakaw
Location	Bgy Sum-ag, Bacolod City
Camera	Fujifilm HS25EXR digital camera
Photographer	Dr. Ernesto P. Adorio

A bird expert can help us identify this one.

Birds: fantail, Rhipidura javanica

I suspect that one of these is a male and the other female. July 22, 2013: No, it is a different bird, the maria kafra! will split this later.

bird	Rhipidura javanica
Common Name	Pied Fantail
Photographer	Dr. Ernnesto P. Adorio
Camera	Fujifilm HS25EXR bridge camera
Location	Bacolod City
Acnowledgment	Ella Bernales Jacildo(common name)
Reference	Wikipedia
Links	Ella Bermudo Jacido's FB album

Red and white poinsettias

The poinsettia is native to Mexico. We are familiar with the red poinsettias and we were mildly surprised theres exist white varieties. These plants are associated with holiday season, and are also mildly poisonous if ingested. Pets and children should not be allowed near them.

Plant/flower	Kingdom(Plantae), unranked(Angiosperms,Eudicots,Rosids), Order(Malpighiales),Family(Euphorbiaceae),Genus-Species(Euphorbia pulcherrima)
Common name	Poinsettia, flor de pascua, crown of the Andes,
Camera	Fujifilm HS25EXR digital camera
Location	Salvador Benedicto
Reference	wikipedia

The red brown maya, Lonchura atricapilla jagori.

One of the most invasive bird is the European tree house sparrow also called mayang-bahay. They are almost everywhere, so numerous, that it is a welcome sight to see a native maya today in Bacolod City, carrying a nesting twig in its beak.

Bird	Lonchura atricapilla jagori,Lonchura Malacca
Common name	black headed Chestnut Munia
Location	Bacolod City
Date	April 23, 2013
Camera	Fujifilm HS25EXR
Photographer	Dr. Ernesto P. Adorio

Beach morning glories

I first identified this Ipomea Purpurea but I am suspecting the specimen I shot is beach morning glory.(See stuartxchange reference)




The flowers closed in the afternoon as the following photos show!

Plant/Flower	Ipomea pes-caprae
Common name	beach morning glory, bagasua
Camera	Fujifilm HS25EXR
Location	Bacolod City
Photographer	Dr. Ernesto P.Adorio
Reference	stuartxchange