Monsoon romance: Birds love rain, rain loves birds

Rains drive some of us indoors. But a Green Ogre loves nothing more than to step out, get wet and click madly. Sandy’s excuse to step into the rain: Uh, let’s go see what the birds are up to. Well, entertain yourself.

Behind the bars...
A Eurasian Collared Dove (Streptopelia decaocto) slips precariously through electric lines as rain approaches
Is the rain gone ? : A pond heron seems to look around anxiously during a break in the shower
What?! Has it stopped raining already? This Indian Pond Heron (Ardeola grayii) looks around anxiously during a break in the shower

 

Brown girl In the rain : A baya weaver (Ploceus philippinus) female enjoys an early monsoon shower.
Brown Girl In The Rain: A juvenile Baya Weaver (Ploceus philippinus) enjoys an early monsoon shower. Tra-la-la-la-la!

 

The Harbinger: Pied cuckoos (Clamator jacobinus) are monsoon migrants, who generally arrive in India a few days before monsoons. In South India however, it is a resident.
The Harbinger: Pied or Jacobin Cuckoos (Clamator jacobinus) are monsoon migrants that generally arrive in India a few days before monsoons. In South India, however, it is a resident.
A male pond heron (Ardeola grayii) gets a stylish red mane , during the monsoons, as it develops its breeding plumage.
A male Pond Heron (Ardeola grayii) gets a stylish red mane during the monsoons, a signature of good genes that it aches to propagate

 

Sandeep Somasekharan

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  • Sandeep Somasekharan (or Sandy as friends call him) took his headlong plunge into photography with a three-megapixel Nikon point-and-shoot he purchased in 2003. The avid reader and occasional scribbler started enjoying travel and nature more as he spent more time photographing. Meeting Beej in 2008 helped him channel his creative energies in the form of essays and nature photographs that he started publishing on The Green Ogre. Sandy loves to photograph birds and landscapes, and considers photography and writing as his meditation. Now based out of the US, Sandy juggles his time between parental duties, a full time engineering role, writing short fiction in Malayalam, and an occasional birding trip thrown in between. His debut novel in Malayalam hits the bookstalls in January 2025. Sandy can be found at instagram as @footprintsonlight

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