Himalaya on my mind
If my piece on the Bedni Bugyal trek was a one-week breeze, here comes the hurricane. My good friend Jennifer Nandi, whose reading has ingrained in her the poesy of…
Malabar Giant Squirrel at Muthodi
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iGvD-Tteiw] The Green Ogre – Birds, Wildlife, Ecology and Nature notes from India.
Muthodi Bird List
Sept. 30 – Oct. 2, 2008 Alpine Swift (Tachymarptis melba) Ashy Woodswallow (Artamus fuscus) Bar-winged Flycatcher Shrike (Hemipus picatus) Black Eagle (Ictinaetus malayensis) Black-crested Bulbul (Ruby Throated) – (Pycnonotus melanicterus…
Himalaya
On our 10-day trek in Garhwal, we experienced the majesty, beauty, ferocity and the sagacity of the Himalayas. Over a hundred species of birds, hailstorms every afternoon, mountain sickness at…
RIP Charles Lee Remington
The man whose breath is the breathing of small white butterflies… – Erica Jong, The Man Under the Bed It’s not often that we see the Page Three element in…
Will Sultanpur go to the dogs?
It was in March last year that I stole a trip to Sultanpur, a few minutes by road past Gurgaon, Haryana. It seemed every bit like the wetlands of my…
Quick note from Horsley Hills – Watch the video
From The Green Ogre archives, before digital video really caught on and became a thing – here are a bunch of quick nature notes from Horsley Hills
100 tigers, but where’s the forest?
The Chinese, in all their ecological ignorance, have reason to be proud. After systematically decimating all things living from their once-bountiful land, they now expect to be felicitated for their…
Death to Diclofenac
The ban of the veterinary drug Diclofenac comes as a relief to conservationists. The drug, administered to domestic cattle and water buffalo, has been blamed for the Great Asian Vulture…
California dreaming with gulls and squirrels
At a viewpoint on the California coast, we stopped for a bite, and got more than we could chew.
Iruppu-Brahmagiri on foot
Birdsong brings comfort to tired trekkers ascending to the heights of Brahmagiri in the Western Ghats
The birdwatcher at home
I had walked these fields as a child. Here is where I became a birdwatcher.
A jumbo-size problem
“Tusker!” The cry stopped the safari vehicle in its tracks. About 20 tourists gawked at the picture of splendour, like a dark raincloud in a starless sky, chomping on shoots…
When a green finger hurts
I have lived all my life with a green finger. Now scurvied by years of abuse in the urban wilderness, it joins my palsied lungs in an anguished cry. For…