Balcony Safari – The idle joy of birding
Why go on an expensive safari to watch birds when your backyard is just as well endowed as any forest?
Tag: birdwatching
Outfoxed by a Mongoose in the cognitive maze
Confusing a mongoose for a fox isn’t an act of uninformed stupidity. It means something is amiss with your Semantic Network
Encounter – The Hair-Crested Drongo
Glossy jet-black with iridescent highlights. And a tail so twirly it’s unmistakable. If you peer ever so closely, you can see the thin, thread-like hairs on the forehead. Meet the Hair-crested Drongo.
Encounter – Himalayan Bulbul
Even birders rarely felicitate bulbuls with a second glance, worse if they are Red-whiskered or Red-vented Bulbuls. But when we head up to the hills, the sight of the Himalayan Bulbul is a joy to us. For it means we are in the hills, and there’s a bounty of birdlife waiting to be discovered.
Great Himalayan National Park Trek – Day Zero – Warming up
Warming up for our trek to the Great Himalayan National Park, the Ogres spend time in Delhi, waiting impatiently to get there. Part 1 of a new series by Sandeep Somasekharan
Christmas Day birding on a lark
Christmas day, I took out my socks and found my car keys inside. I took it as a portent and headed out birding
Encounter: The Black-and-Orange Flycatcher
In a Nilgiri forest cloaked with moss, the adorable and confiding Black-and-Orange Flycatcher sets the woods — and your imagination — aflame.
Encounter – The Himalayan Monal
Even a peacock must bow to this unchallenged monarch of mountain fowls, the majestic Himalayan Monal
Iruppu-Brahmagiri on foot
Birdsong brings comfort to tired trekkers ascending to the heights of Brahmagiri in the Western Ghats
