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Himalayas - 469 _________ Liked the setting ... ... and sense of achievement ... ... in Jay's demeanour Two ... Coveted goals ... Of Living a life Through ... Beaten paradigm __________ Black-headed Jay Garrulous lanceolatus Dalhousie Hill Station Alt. 7000 ft. Himachal Pradesh Western...

Uncertain ... Off ... to An uncertain Future ... ... And So is ... Humanity ... As well __________ Egyptian Vulture IUCN : Threatened > Endangered Dist. Mathura Uttar Pradesh India 28 January 2013

Life : Quietude ... and Turmoil __________ Time for some introspection ... Humanity gasping ... society in turmoil ... Misdeeds ... and mis-adventures taking their toll ... All ... and sundry Paying heavily ... The bell ... ... Tolls for us all ... ______________ Pied Avocet Watch...

Will to fight and survive ____________ Uploading first butterfly image ... ... since the lockdown began ... Here's one resilient spirited beauty ... ... embattled but neither down ... nor ... out ... Will to hold on against ... ... adversities Peacock Pansy Delhi Technological...

Spring-Summer - 370 This is a winter visitor species to the area ... ... they do not breed here ... Yet ... this extremely well camouflaged pair hung on till early part of Summer ... Common Snipe Keoladeo National Park Bharatpur Rajasthan India 9 April 2012

Spring-Summer - Setting the wetland on fire ... ... with their Gloss and ... ... iridescence Moulting into all important plumage ... in early summer ... __________ Glossy ibis Keoladeo National Park Bharatpur Rajasthan India 9 April 2012

Spring-Summer - The couple must have found ... something very strange in me ... ... as their expression suggests ______ Spotted Owlet Athene brama Keoladeo National Park Bharatpur Rajasthan India 9 April 2012

Balcony Biodiversity 2.0.5 We had a special Balcony visitor today ... First such visit by an immature ... Indian Gray Hornbill ... must have fledged ... not long ago ... He first sat on the balcony then shifted to the street light on the divider ... Image taken through two bars (red...

A pair..male above and female below... captured from the terrace of the resort we stayed at.. we just checked in late evening and decided to check the large trees adjoining/hugging the resort building.. it was 6.30 in the evening after sunset!!! Thanks to their sweet calls...now we are so...

A bird of Indian Subcontinent Their number has declined in Pakistan ... but stable in India ... One individual in Berlin Zoo attained a life of 30 years It was nice to see that shoulder patch in flight ... __________ Red-naped Ibis Pseudibis papillosa Basai Gurgaon Haryana India...

Mates ... and ... the sorehead I think ... this will do for Saturday ... ________ Great Cormorant Keoladeo National ark Bharatpur Rajasthan India 24.11.2017

After a Decade ... A specie ... that I never added here (... or anywhere ) ... but has been available in the archive ... for last ten years ... A pair of ... Rufous-tailed Lark ... captured in the lovely ambiance of Velavadar National Park ... place where last Indian Asiatic Cheetah was...

Himalayas - 468 An evening drink ... at poolside ... The day recedes ... into ... mesmerizing twilight ... To be embraced by an ... overwhelming Himalayan night ... ___________ Rufous-chinned Laughingthrush Sattal Forest Dist. Nainital Uttarakhand Himalayas India 20 November 2019

Though there are many unshared images ... in the archive ... here's one that I discovered 2 days ago ... Another species ... that comes infrequently here ... last image came nearly 3 years ago ... one I posted even before that ... This species breeds in Himalayas and moves to the ...

A stream ... ____ Liked the sense of motion ... of an un-hindered stream ... So ... cherished in these restrictive times Reality ... and a dream ... ! __________ Pied Avocet Dist. Jajjar Haryana India 10 January 2019

Lakescape - It was big gang of Dunlins ... ... consisting of more than hundred individuals ... ... though a much smaller number is seen here ... ___________ Pong Dam Wildlife and Bird Sanctuary Dist Kangra Himachal Pradesh India 31 January 2011

Spring-Summer - 365 Now ... the gorgeous one gleefully showing the lovely plumage that he acquires ... ... during this special time of the year ... _____________ Cotton Pygmy Goose Nettapus coromandelianus Keoladeo National Park Bharatpur Rajasthan India 4 July 2016

On World Environment Day Here's one ... ... Who is One ... With Environment Blending perfectly With ... The milieu Unlike ... Us ... humans Craving ... and Scheming ... for Supremacy over Nature ... And getting Mauled by a virus Instead ... __________ Little ringed Plover Dist. Gurgaon...

Spring-Summer - 364 Arguably ... smallest among geese ... smaller individuals may be just 10 inches in size and 160 gm in wt. ... ... males develop very attractive breeding plumage ... Resident ... but may disperse locally according to rainfall ... ___________ Cotton Pygmy Goose...

From the boat again ... There were two of them on two granite rocks ... jutting out of the river ... mid-stream This is the second individual ... seen here in the company of an Indian Pond Heron ... At 49-53 cm ... they are just marginally smaller than the Beach Thick-knee ... ... but...

Spring-Summer - 363 While small sized Crakes are the winter visitors of passage migrants ... This big guy would come to the Lost Wetland during summer monsoon months ... for breeding ... and tall resplendent grasses would provide him good protection ... About them being uncommon ...

Lost Cause ... Glimpses of the Lost Wetland ... ... where these Crakes and hundreds of other local ... winter visitors and the passage migrants were seen and captured by the birders ... in different seasons ... over the years ... and the concrete that gradually spread and overwhelmed...

Spring-Summer - 362 I believe it will be good to close this series ... or as KC says ... 'this month on Crakes' with another image of this infrequently seen passage migrant in our wetlands ... Taken in post sunset twilight ... Watch the secretive little beauty in a video-clip ... Link ...

Spring-Summer - 361 Well ... it will be unjust ... if I close this session on the little Skulkers without posting a few more closeups of them ... Baillon's is a just a sparrow sized widespread and migratory small Crake ... ... a winter visitor and passage migrant to our area ... its...

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