What Little Grebes learn at Sunday School
Family entertainment for this family of Little Grebes might be, in all seriousness, a training session for the future. Notes from a morning well spent… Early one Sunday morning, a…
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The February wallpaper — Enter the Dragon!
Make this picture your desktop wallpaper-calendar for February 2012. To download, click the link below or the picture above. file storage online Garden Lizard (Calotes versicolor) Photograph: Sandeep Somasekharan The…
Raptor Friday: The White Tiger of the shores
On broad soaring wings, the mighty White-bellied Sea Eagle patrols the coastline, plunging every now and then into the ocean for fish or sea snakes. Its aerobatic displays can make…
On hobbled knee across the Nandakini
In the final episode of her Bedni Bugyal travelogue, Jennifer Nandi crosses a bridge and a river into another consciousness, one that holds the tranquility of the Himalaya and perturbation over its…
Download the December wallpaper
December is seven days old and we’ve been sluggish. Blame it on the cold! Here’s our last wallpaper of the year. May the lemony yellowness of this Oriental White-eye light…
A Red Cassia in late flower
The late-blooming Red Cassia sets the avenue canopy aflame, flowering as it does when all colour is spent after the monsoon’s departure In early August I had posted an encounter with the…
Download the November wallpaper
A misty morning in Dandeli revealed this surreal spiderscape. Bring it alive on your desktop. Yours, with our compliments. Happy November! DOWNLOAD THIS WALLPAPER FOR YOUR DESKTOP >> Photo: Sandeep…
Odyssey to Bedni Bugyal – In another world
In the charming alpine meadow of Bedni Bugyal life goes on as if on another planet, though Jennifer Nandi notes that our inexorable worldliness has preceded our arrival here Life’s…
Green Ogre Autumn Conclave Dandeli – Trip Report
Dandeli, post-monsoon, is a completely different forest. Quieter, darker, denser, and offering a whole new birding experience that left us unsatisfied A misty morning welcomed us as we got down…
Odyssey to Bedni Bugyal – Slow Deterioration
We arrive at Bedni Bugyal, but only barely. Food, shelter and rest are in pitifully short supply. Add to that the prospect of two long, cold, terrifying nights at 11,000…
Nominate a warrior for the Kumble Foundation – Jumbo Wildlife Awards
It takes more than eco-tourism or tokenism to save the tiger. Improving the lot of conservation’s foot-soldiers can be a good start. Forest officer Prabhu Swamy at one of the…
Odyssey to Bedni Bugyal – Didana to Ali Bugyal
Pressed to ascend an indefinite distance to the alpine meadow of Ali Bugyal, Jennifer Nandi’s mind fastens to thoughts of self-preservation and meditations on the Zen of climbing Bright-eyed and…
Encounter: Indian Giant Squirrel
Fluffy and tubby, the Indian Giant Squirrel is a treat to watch anywhere you may wander in the forests of peninsular India
Would they kill the keelback?
Did that curious crowd know, or care, that the snake we were trying to see off to safety was a harmless albeit aggressive Checkered Keelback? Here’s how to tell a…
Encounter: White-cheeked Barbet, the Invisible Chatterbox
The White-cheeked Barbet, earlier known as the Small Green Barbet, just melts into the canopy. But peer into the roof of leaves and you’ll see it devouring fruits and figs…