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Nature’s Layers Unravelled – Encounters with birds, beasts, and relatives

Tag: WInter Birding

Romancing a Taiga Flycatcher in a tangle of pronouns

Romancing a Taiga Flycatcher in a tangle of pronouns

Bijoy VenugopalNovember 26, 2024January 10, 2025

Walking by the woods on a wintry morning, I romanced a Taiga Flycatcher. We began a relationship. Two roads diverged – which would I choose?

Doddanekundi Lake – A birder’s journal

Doddanekundi Lake – A birder’s journal

Praveen TangiralaJune 18, 2020January 31, 2024

Starting in 2016, Praveen Tangirala has kept a close eye on Doddanekundi Lake, the large wetland in his neighbourhood that hosts a wealth of bird life. Besides the obvious delights that birding at the lake brings, he is also wary of the environmental threats that endanger its fragile but resilient ecology.

Among the blackbuck of Jayamangali

Among the blackbuck of Jayamangali

Bijoy VenugopalDecember 31, 2019December 31, 2019

In Jayamangali, the blackbuck roam free and majestic, but human encroachment around the sanctuary is a cause for concern

Backyard Birding Notes from Kasavanahalli Lake in winter

Backyard Birding Notes from Kasavanahalli Lake in winter

Bijoy VenugopalJanuary 10, 2018February 20, 2024

Winter has come to Bengaluru’s Kasavanahalli Lake but the migrants are slow to arrive. A few sandpipers here, a few wagtails there and the odd Warbler or Ashy Drongo or two. It’s a slow start to winter birding in 2018

Winter birding – it isn’t over until it’s over

Winter birding – it isn’t over until it’s over

Bijoy VenugopalMarch 7, 2016February 20, 2024

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

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