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Nature’s Layers Unravelled – Encounters with birds, beasts, and relatives

Category: Andy

Andy, who answers to the sonorous name of Anand Y, joined The Green Ogre in 2010, as fellow traveller and raconteur. A yen for history and geography, blended with a brooding philosophical mind and tempered by a gift for laboured puns, make his posts quite absorbing. Read all posts authored by Andy.

Losing and finding love in Nieuwe Driemanspolder

Losing and finding love in Nieuwe Driemanspolder

Anand YegnaswamiFebruary 13, 2025February 13, 2025

A peek into the love lives of Western Yellow Wagtails in Nieuwe Driemanspolder sets off a chain of insights into why we love, and why we win and lose at love

Tidal Transitions – Manifesting Alchemy In The Bali Sea

Tidal Transitions – Manifesting Alchemy In The Bali Sea

Anand YegnaswamiJanuary 15, 2025January 20, 2025

It wasn’t until I saw a swallowtail butterfly fly in from the Bali Sea that I realised the interconnectedness of what I had witnessed. How anticlimactic that it took a butterfly to remind me of the Butterfly Effect!

Wild Wallonia – A short walk in the Ardennes

Wild Wallonia – A short walk in the Ardennes

Anand YegnaswamiJuly 30, 2024July 30, 2024

Walking in Wallonia, in the French-speaking region of southern Belgium, offers an adventure through lush forests, historical ruins, and picturesque meadows, revealing its natural beauty and rich history

Kutch Diaries – Spying on the elusive Desert Cat

Kutch Diaries – Spying on the elusive Desert Cat

Anand YegnaswamiJune 10, 2020June 10, 2020

Now you see it, now you don’t. Whether it is stalking prey or just being scarce, the Desert Cat is an elusive customer that inhabits the magical landscape of Banni Grasslands.

Kutch Diaries: Up close with the raptors of Banni

Kutch Diaries: Up close with the raptors of Banni

Anand YegnaswamiMay 24, 2020May 25, 2020

In the Banni grasslands of Kutch, raptors hold sway, holding sway over sky, scrub and tree-line

Kutch Diaries – Going Waku Waku with Sandgrouse in Banni

Kutch Diaries – Going Waku Waku with Sandgrouse in Banni

Anand YegnaswamiApril 29, 2020June 12, 2021

Continuing the Kutch Diaries, with close encounters with three different species of sandgrouse in Banni grasslands

Kutch Diaries – Breakfast with the Grey Hypocolius

Kutch Diaries – Breakfast with the Grey Hypocolius

Anand YegnaswamiApril 16, 2020June 12, 2021

On a wintry morning in Kutch, we waited among the dense Salvadora bushes for a glimpse of a rare winter visitor from West Asia – the Grey Hypocolius

Kutch Diaries: A whiff of the Rann

Kutch Diaries: A whiff of the Rann

Anand YegnaswamiApril 7, 2020April 28, 2020

Introducing a lovely series of reminiscences from Andy’s travels in Kutch from the winter of 2018. Stay tuned.

Gudvangen, where Norse mythology lives

Gudvangen, where Norse mythology lives

Anand YegnaswamiFebruary 11, 2020April 5, 2020

Sailing to Gudvangen amid the fjords of Norway is a veritable geography lesson. And Douglas Adams wasn’t off the mark in his description of the country

Musings amid a sea of poppies

Musings amid a sea of poppies

Anand YegnaswamiAugust 21, 2019August 21, 2019

Beholding a sea of red poppies in the Netherlands spills forth a voyage of musings and memories of pages thumbed. Take a walk with Andy

Spring arrives in the Netherlands

Spring arrives in the Netherlands

Anand YegnaswamiApril 7, 2019April 7, 2019

In the Netherlands, flowers are blooming, waterfowl are cackling. The days are growing longer. Spring is here and a new cycle of seasons has begun

Rewind: Notes from a birding walk at Karnala Bird Sanctuary with BNHS on Dr Salim Ali’s birthday

Rewind: Notes from a birding walk at Karnala Bird Sanctuary with BNHS on Dr Salim Ali’s birthday

Anand YegnaswamiJanuary 4, 2018January 4, 2018

Notes on sightings from a birding walk at Karnala Bird Sanctuary with BNHS on Dr Salim Ali’s birthday

Tadoba Diaries – At work with Tiger Mother Choti Tara

Tadoba Diaries – At work with Tiger Mother Choti Tara

Anand YegnaswamiMay 13, 2017

Hunting, teaching her cubs to hunt, protecting them, and guarding her prey base from competition… for Choti Tara, being a tiger mother is a full-time job. A day out with the resident queen of Jamni grassland in Tadoba and her royal twins

Tadoba Diaries – Taming the Tree Shrew, third time lucky

Tadoba Diaries – Taming the Tree Shrew, third time lucky

Anand YegnaswamiApril 22, 2017April 23, 2017

In Tadoba’s Tigerland, the distinction of the most talked-about couple that evening didn’t go to the pair of tigers we saw, but to the Indian Tree Shrew

Tadoba Diaries – At Telia, the tiger’s yawn gave it away

Tadoba Diaries – At Telia, the tiger’s yawn gave it away

Anand YegnaswamiApril 11, 2017

At Telia, in the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve, a tiger played hide and seek in the tall sallow grass. Until its yawn gave its presence away

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