Rahul Singh has been photographing the wildlife near his house in Jalpaiguri, India, for the past six years. He’s captured intimate moments with elephants, rhinos, deer, jackals, and monkeys, but it’s the colorful birds that nest around his city that he’s most passionate about.
He caught a scene that left him speechless last August.
“I visited a place where there were bushes of these ornamental bananas to take photos of sunbirds sucking nectar from it,” Singh told The Dodo. “Everything was going as usual when, suddenly, I was shocked that the crimson sunbird started taking a bath in the water stored in the banana flower petal.”
Early-morning drizzle had collected in the bowl-like red petal of the banana flower, and the 4-inch-long songbird wasn’t going to let it go to waste on a hot day.
After she’d had her fill of nectar, the crimson sunbird began to use the petal as a bathtub.
In all his years of bird watching, Singh had never seen anything like it before. “I was literally stunned to see this unusual behavior,” Singh said. “I kept my camera’s shutter button pressed as the bird took her bath.”
Singh was overjoyed to be at the right spot at the right time to photograph the magical scene. He later uploaded the photos on Instagram, where they were seen by hundreds of people.
Singh stated, “This was truly a once-in-a-lifetime moment.” “It’s incredible how nature can take us by surprise.”
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