Faces at a Feeder: Meet the Carolina Wren
Teakettle… teakettle. The Carolina Wren, though diminutive, makes its presence felt with its big, loud voice. Continue reading Faces at a Feeder: Meet the Carolina Wren
Teakettle… teakettle. The Carolina Wren, though diminutive, makes its presence felt with its big, loud voice. Continue reading Faces at a Feeder: Meet the Carolina Wren
Lockdown birding gets a boost with the arrival of a nesting family of Northern Cardinals at a North Carolina home feeder. Here’s the first post of an absorbing pictorial series Continue reading Faces at a Feeder: Northern Cardinal
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 Continue reading Kutch Diaries – Breakfast with the Grey Hypocolius
One hundred days of birding. And the last lap in the midst of a lockdown! Continue reading Lockdown Diaries – 100 days of birding
The Oriental Magpie-Robin is an accomplished songster. But its powers of mimicry are often underrated. Continue reading Hush! This Magpie-Robin just stole a bulbul’s song!
A run in with a rat snake prompts a question about conservation and ethics while setting up nest-boxes for Eastern Bluebirds Continue reading Eastern Bluebirds – Spare the rod and spoil the child?
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 Continue reading Mangalajodi – birds and serenity in a winter wetland
From an apparition to a presence, the endangered Yellow-throated Bulbul regaled us with an appearance on a short birding walk at Rishi Valley. Continue reading Encounter – Yellow-throated Bulbul at Rishi Valley
An unplanned trip to Manchanabele leads to some interesting bird-watching. But also a residue of sadness Continue reading Manchanabele – Birding in Bangalore’s extended backyard
Winter storm Helena was supposed to hit us harder. Six inches of snow, failed power, and freezing pipes. The storm came and went, and the dull morning made way for a bright and sunny afternoon. Then the birds began to come out Continue reading Winter birding at the doorstep
Trees are an inconvenience. Leaves falling, light being blocked, snakes showing up, tree roots destabilizing the walls, the need to widen the approach road – we have so many excuses to cut down our trees, and none for planting one. Continue reading Can the koel find another tree?
In Valparai, an Eden of wilderness tucked away in the Anaimalai range of the Western Ghats, wildlife is easy to observe… and miss. Continue reading Fragments of abundance in Valparai
While the glens and vales of the Nilgiris cope with a torrent of tourists, the resident and endemic birds have the hills to themselves. There’s no better time to observe them nesting and bringing up their families. Without moving a muscle, just to prove that lazy birding does have its rewards. Continue reading Summer in the Nilgiris – an escapee’s photo-diary
Many birders shun Ranganathittu for the artifice of its environs and the easy photographic pickings. But the birds seem at home here, and that matters! Here’s a photo-essay from a recent visit when the Eurasian Spoonbills had just started to fledge and the Asian Openbill Storks were nesting Continue reading Ranganathittu – revisiting an old birding haunt
Visiting the same location time and again has been the secret of this year’s winter birding escapades. It’s March but the migrants are still here. Among this week’s surprises was a flock of Garganey, wintering ducks from Europe that I have observed at Kaikondrahalli for the first time Continue reading Winter birding – it isn’t over until it’s over