Fall Fable – celebrating the en-masse death of leaves
Every year, leaves die off en masse during fall. What’s the science behind this glorious phenomenon?
Savannah Sprinter – A day at the office with the cheetah
You’ve seen it all before in television documentaries, but watching a cheetah stalk and hunt its prey in the epic theatre of the African savannah is a whole other trip!
Kutch Diaries: A whiff of the Rann
Introducing a lovely series of reminiscences from Andy’s travels in Kutch from the winter of 2018. Stay tuned.
Lockdown Diaries – 100 days of birding
One hundred days of birding. And the last lap in the midst of a lockdown!
Hush! This Magpie-Robin just stole a bulbul’s song!
The Oriental Magpie-Robin is an accomplished songster. But its powers of mimicry are often underrated.
Gudvangen, where Norse mythology lives
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
Among the blackbuck of Jayamangali
In Jayamangali, the blackbuck roam free and majestic, but human encroachment around the sanctuary is a cause for concern
Bewitched by butterflies on a Sunday morning in Bangalore
Sunlight and butterflies are a potent combination to chase away the blues
Musings amid a sea of poppies
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
Eastern Bluebirds – Spare the rod and spoil the child?
A run in with a rat snake prompts a question about conservation and ethics while setting up nest-boxes for Eastern Bluebirds
Spring arrives in the Netherlands
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
Tender, funny, macabre – three wild tales from a weekend in the Anthropocene
A rabbit-eating tortoise. An ungrateful parakeet. An orphaned baby bat. Three weird, funny and moving tales from the animal kingdom as it knocks heads with the Anthropocene
On World Wetlands Day, some funerary fanfare at Bengaluru’s dying lakes
That’s the way a wetland dies. It desiccates and seeps into memory, and then awaits a rain of retrospective wisdom that may never come.
The night the moon blushed red
It was a cold, windy night on the coast of North Carolina. But there was a celestial event that brought one determined photographer out to gaze skyward – the blood moon!
Mangalajodi – birds and serenity in a winter wetland
Mangalajodi in Odisha is not just a winter birding hotspot. To the passionate birder, this is a place of pilgrimage. Besides the opportunity to watch a number of species at extremely close quarters with minimum intrusion, it offers something else — serenity