Smart Tiny Bird uses Flower Petal as its Bathtub in “Once-in-a-lifetime Moment”
For the past six years, Rahul Singh has photographed the wildlife around his home in Jalpaiguri, India.
He’s snapped candid moments with elephants, rhinos, deer, jackals and monkeys, but his true passion is for the colorful birds who nest around his city.
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 so happy to be at the right place at the right time to capture the fairytale-like moment. Later, he shared the images on Instagram, where thousands of people were touched by them.