Delhi

farmland · wildlife

This tall and scrawny leggy lass was just born to its mother out of camouflaged eggs laid out in the sun at 55 Celcius to a pair of Red wattled Lapwing ground-nesting birds at the Wilderness Orchard in Delhi, on 20 June 2024.

sport

A Nimboo and spoon race challenge at Hansraj College Delhi University Festival 2024: An existence challange with a lemon and spoon in one's mouth. Fun and games as part of the DU Delhi University college fest season.

politics · music

Saffron and Indian national flags wave in the hot summer sunshine and heat, as the inevitable announcement is about to be made. Conch shells ring out and a woman speaks of 'Modi ki guarantee': "Modiji ne jo bala hain woh kar ke dikhaya.

politics · highway

Aam Aadmi Party Office in New Delhi on election counting day - India Votes June 2024. The dismal showing by AAP pretty much means a move to irrelevance at this time...

bazaar · fort

Chandni Chowk's speciality is its variety and authenticity: food, delicacies and sweets of more than 1,000 kinds, sarees with chikan and zari.

birds · farmland

A Golden-backed Woodpeckers or Black rumped Flameback couple start excavating their summer-time breeding nest-hole in a Casuarina tree at the Wilderness Orchard in New Delhi.

birds · farmland

A Brahminy Myna or Starling makes a nest inside a Barbet's cavity in tree trunk at Wilderness Orchard in Delhi Brahminy Starling makes a nest inside a Barbet's cavity in tree trunk at Wilderness Orchard in Delhi The Brahminy Starling is a m…

birds · wildlife

A female olive-green Purple Sunbird sits inside its pendulous organic matter nest in Delhi, oblivious to 40 degree heat outside.

industry · farmland

These pesty white bugs crawl up mango trees and lay eggs that then grow young ones that chew the juice out of mango stems and cause the ripening small mangos to fall off Plant parasite pest hemipterans at Wilderness Orchard in Delhi: mango…

flowers · farmland

Big display of Amaryllis belladonna Lilies or Hippeastrum in flower at Wilderness Orchard in March 2024 A range of colours of Amaryllis blooming beautifully at Wilderness Orchard botanical gardens in the Delhi spring-time, with crimsons, re…

farmland

Spring-time and the harmless Dhaman or Rat snake has become active at the Wilderness Orchard in Delhi See how a snake locomotes, in this perfect video that shows a snake moving forward via slithering through the grass.

Butterfly Pieris brassicae mating in the Delhi spring: Brilliant yellow with backdrop of crimson Amaryllis Lilies in flower.

wildlife · birds

Shikra is a smart slaty grey raptor bird of prey and avian predator with beady ruby red eyes, as seen here at the Wilderness Orchard forest in New Delhi.

wildlife · birds

Spotted or Scaly-breasted Munia (a Finch family bird?) is a cute little grassland and open spaces bird, now banned to be kept as a cage bird, but seen here in the wild at the Wilderness Orchard in New Delhi city.

flowers

Delicate plum blossom lasts for just a few days, but is more glorious to behold, that too in crowded Delhi Ephemeral blossoms on a plum tree in the ever ephemeral Delhi spring-time. Aloo bukhara tree in bloom.

birds · lake

Hunched up Pond Heron enjoys winter sunshine on a Sehmal or Silk Cotton tree at the Wilderness Orchard in Delhi, preening and looking down to the waters below for potential prey.

farmland · flowers

Cymbidium Orchids grow in a wide range of colours at the Wilderness Orchard botanical gardens in New Delhi: Orchids ahoy! See also Taiwanese round orchids in flower.

farmland · flowers

Ornamental peach blossom in a deep red, flowering in Delhi's ephemeral spring, at Wilderness Orchard, in a thick grove of peach trees.

livestock

Camels troop down the erstwhile Rajpath (now Kartavya Path!?) as they still serve in the Indian Army! Rajasthan Camel-born regiment at Republic Day 2024 in New Delhi.

birds · farmland

A Rose-ringed Parakeet chowing down on Lantana camara seeds at the Wilderness Orchard in Delhi.

river

Pathetic face of modern India: Woman collecting garbage in New Delhi, cleaning a dirty plastic riddled drain for her livelihood.

festival

See the frying process for preparation of Ghewar mithai or sweet meats from Rajasthan, at the Saras Food Festival in New Delhi, 14 December 2023. Ghewar mithai from Rajasthan, at Saras Food Festival New Delhi, 14 Dec 2023