White-collared Kingfisher and Blue-tailed Bee Eater

Lately, I have been noticing these colorful birds that come and go not far away from our backyard. It just caught my attention since these birds are not common to see in everyday sightings. These birds are coming around for a few weeks already and are visible in rural areas, since, our place was severely damaged by the last Decembers typhoon and most likely so with the natural habitat of these birds. Perhaps these birds are looking for a new place to roam and to look for food as well.

There are a lot of uncommon birds sightings that I've been noticing roaming around in our area actually, but I only managed to capture two of the many. And since I'm not really familiar with the species of birds I tend to google them to identify and it turns out these birds are White-collared KingFisher and Blue-tailed Bee Eater.

True to its name White-collar, this Kingfisher is obviously named after its color which has a white spot on the front body and surrounding its neckline. Kingfisher is easy to identify through its dark dagger-like bill and usually had huge heads with short legs.

Moreover, kingfishers are usually seen in streams or rivers as their natural habitat where the birds can have their sources of food.

Aside from the kingfisher, I feel so lucky to capture another bird on the same day and this one has a bright color the Blue-tailed Bee-eater. From the name itself, Blue-tailed obviously came from its colored tail and is believed to be insectivorous which means these kinds of birds are up for insects as their diet but they were observed as primarily going for bees instead.

Aside from its attractive colors what caught my attention is that the Blue-tailed Bee-eater seemed to have a mask on, like an extension on his bill all the way to his eyes. Check it out in a closer look.

After a few minutes of staying in the electric wire, it flew away, lucky enough I got it captured. And it turns out even more beautiful as the bird spread its wings showing its underneath color. See the below photo.

Above photos are captured by yours truly.
@jayparagat.