Small bee teasing the Big Carpenter bee

That evening I was trying to take photos of birds collecting building material for their nest from this Crown Flower (Calotropis gigantea) silk. I noticed this Blue Carpenter bee (Xylocopa violacea) hovering around the flowers. Sun was Harsh and I didn’t have any macro lens around. So I fixed 36 mm Kenko extension tube to my Canon EF 400mm f/5.6 L USM on Canon EOS 5D mark II and tried to shoot closeup shots of this Carpenter bee.

More disturbance by the small bee

Then suddenly I saw a small black bee came and annoyed the carpenter bee so much that it just scooted away.

Carpenter bee accepts defeats and abandons

This reminded me the story of David & Goliath.

Scaly-breasted Munia

The Scaly-breasted Munia (Lonchura punctulata) also known as Nutmeg Mannikin or Spice Finch is a small passerine bird.

The Scaly-breasted Munia is a small gregarious bird which feeds mainly on seeds. It frequents open woodland and cultivation. The nest is a large domed grass structure in a tree or under the eaves of a house into which 4–10 white eggs are laid.

The Scaly-breasted Munia is 11–12cm in length. The adult has a stubby dark bill, brown upperparts and darker brown head. The underparts are white with black scale markings. The sexes are similar, but immature birds have pale brown upperparts, lack the darker head and have uniform buff underparts.

Male Loten's Sunbird

Last Sunday I had plenty of birds to shoot. It had stopped raining and birds were busy finding nest materials. I stood beside a milk weed bush whaich had dry seed pod with silk in it. That day I got several good shots.Here is one of the Male Loten’s Sunbird(Cinnyris lotenius) from that day’s photography.

Edit: After Shiva’s Comment I thought of removing the noise from the image. Reason for this noise was Under exposure which was corrected in light room as well as cropping as I had taken this with my X Canon EF 400mm f/5.6 L USM without Tele converter.

Loten's Sunbird after Noiseware

Here is the result from Noiseware Plugin. I started using Imagenomic Noiseware after I found it better than NoiseNinja, Nik Dfine 2.1, Neat Image.