Introducing… The Nature Quiz Series from The Green Ogre!
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Kissing frogs in pouring rain – a herping diary from Munnar
Love frogs and snakes but reluctant to get your boots muddy? Join Vibhu Varshney on a vicarious visual journey herping in God’s Own Country!
Where Trees Are Storytellers — Walking in Wohlleben’s Woodwide Web
Inspired by Peter Wohlleben’s The Hidden Life of Trees, Satya Viswanathan goes exploring the forest that inspired its author. Forest-bathing among the oaks, aspens and beeches of Eifel, she comes away feeling a human connection, and maybe something more…
When the search ends – musings from Kruger
A morning safari at Kruger evokes the question: What if animals thought as humans did?
Hudhud have thought it was the Hoopoe?
Cyclone Hudhud was named after Hudhud the Hoopoe. Hud have thought?
Monsoon, gone so soon
Gayatri Hazarika wrote this ode to the monsoon during the peak of the rains, but we lazybones are sharing it with you now so that you cherish the last gasp of the season, the final raindrops before winter desiccates the subcontinent. Enjoy this photo essay
Miaow! Hiss! Download the October wallpaper
It’s Wildlife Weekend. Download this Cat Snake, our October calendar-wallpaper, for your desktop and iPad!
September is here, download the wallpaper!
September fluttered in a tad late for us Ogres. But there’s more than 20 days left to enjoy this wallpaper. Download and share.
Download the August calendar-wallpaper
This Scaly-Breasted Munia (Lonchura punctulata) is yours to download and keep as a calendar wallpaper (for desktops, laptops and iPads) . But only if you are a member of the Green Ogre community. It’s not hard to become one. Just sign up!
Download the Green Ogre Calendar Wallpaper for July
Intrigued by ladybirds? Don’t miss this free wallpaper When was the last time you were intrigued by a ladybird? Not the children’s books, though your recollection of that memory might…
The February wallpaper — Enter the Dragon!
Make this picture your desktop wallpaper-calendar for February 2012. To download, click the link below or the picture above. file storage online Garden Lizard (Calotes versicolor) Photograph: Sandeep Somasekharan The…
Wordless Wednesday – Darn this itch!
Photo: Sandeep Somasekharan Enjoy more Wordless Wednesday posts — when we Ogres get picturesque speechless! 😉
Happy 2012! Here’s the January wallpaper
First off, Happy New Year! Sorry for the delay, but the cyclone that hit Pondicherry threw our plans out of gear a bit. That said, the events that unfolded last…
When Sky Jasmine rained down
The Indian Cork Tree’s expended blossoms infuse rare magic into the morning after a stormy monsoon night I stay on the coast in Pondicherry. My sense of infinity is linked to…