south india

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Thank you for your kind appreciation of my previous posts. Image cropped, re-sized, levels adjusted and minimally sharpened.

Thank you for your kind appreciation of my previous posts. Image cropped, re-sized, levels adjusted and minimally sharpened.

Thank you for your kind appreciation of my previous posts. Image cropped, re-sized, levels adjusted and minimally sharpened.

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Sahyadri rustic one of the four sub-species in India

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White-breasted Waterhens. There was a snake in the bushes. I wanted him too in the frame, but he didn't oblige. Thank you for your kind appreciation of my previous posts. Image cropped, re-sized, levels adjusted and minimally sharpened.

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Ashy Drongo about to gobble up a bee freshly picked from our hive :-(

The idea was to provide drinking water but the birds soon turned it in to a swimming pool Red-whiskered Bulbuls

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The dark neck patch is visible only when the bird is calling. He had me confused for a while- there is a Dark-necked Tailorbird in the North-east and there has been sporadic sightings reported in other areas according to Grimmett and Inskipp.

I dont know if you know this : this scientific name translates in to Straight-cutting Cobbler ! (Wiki)

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