Delhi

birds · forest

A flock of Jungle Babblers or Turdoides striata is seen on the bamboo fence outside the Wilderness Orchard in New Delhi. This flock looks to be more than 10 individuals 'Babbling' away. Sat bhai or Seven sistes.

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When a Five-striped Palm Squirrel or gilheri gets run over by a car in New Delhi, the House Crows or kauwas move in to recycle and reuse! They, in turn, have to be cautious to not get run over by yet another car...

wildlife · birds

The White-breasted Waterhen is an adaptable water bird that inhabits our New Delhi wetlands at the Wilderness Orchard.

forest

At 32 seconds into the video, the Teetar Mama takes a discrete poop! After a successful breeding season, this Safed Titar family comes out to enjoy the monsoon-time termites or deemak in the ground.

As young White-breasted Waterhen chicks follow their Jalmurghi mother around, a covey of Teetar parents with their young brood forage for grass seeds in an open grassland at the Wilderness Orchard in New Delhi.

wildlife · birds

A Yellow-footed Green Pigeon (Treron phoenicoptera) is spotted sitting on a Persian Lilac tree with its beak wide open. This must be to control its internal body temperature in the Delhi heat.

birds · wildlife

A pair of Pied Myna or Asian Pied Starling (Gracupica contra or Sturnus contra contra) is seen sitting on top of a Banyan tree in Delhi during the monsoon. Pied Mynas are one of the common birds in urban areas.

This Rufous Treepie seems to be running away from our camera as it skips here and there. Among the green leaves and the brownish branches, it is hardly noticeable except for the long tail with a white patch at the end of the tail and the wi…

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On a rainy monsoony day in New Delhi city, a crow brood is raised in a nest high above the Ring Road.

birds · flowers

Fairly common and spectacular with its multiple shades of green is the Rose-ringed Parakeet (Psittacula krameri).

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On a rainy monsoony day in New Delhi city, a crow brood is raised in a nest high above the Ring Road.

birds · wildlife

It is that time of the year as spring arrives with its beauty and bounty and birds are back to their favourite trees for nesting. We filmed a sequence at a Casuarina trunk at our Wilderness Orchard in New Delhi.

birds · flowers

What lovely sharp colour contrasts as the male electric blue iridescent Purple Sunbird visits orange Flame of the Forest or dhak / Tesu / teshu / palas / palash flowers at the Wilderness Orchard in the ephemeral New Delhi spring.Spring is d…

This kabootar never descends to the ground, and lives out its life making strong flights from one tree to another, and gorging on Ficus and other fruit and berries up in the branches of trees here in our city of New Delhi.

monsoon · wildlife

In the hollow created by a broken tree trunk, a pair of Magpie Robins have cleverly decided to nest.

Five cute little Magpie Robin chicks were hatched and fledged from a nest in a guava tree at our Orchard in Delhi. They wait around on the branches of a low shrub, and await their next meal.

wildlife · birds

Fixing spider's egg sacks and cocoons into its nest, this White-eye settles in to her hammock nest, makes herself cosy and sets about laying her eggs, in a hammock nest made between two twigs, in an Oriole like fashion...

wildlife · birds

Shikra is a small raptor or bird of prey, with yellow eyes and light brown bands on its chest - Accipiter badius! The juvenile Shikra almost looks like an adult in size but it still has time to be as efficient a predator as an adult.

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Fully fledged, Crow parents feed into red gape of young chick who has left the nest, still needs feed What makes the House Crow so splendiferous that it is known as Corvus splendens? It is a smart bird all right, and this couple have discov…

Mulayam Singh Yadav speaks at the Border music release with JP Dutta, of the film now infamous due to the fire incident at Uphaar cinema in New Delhi. What the relevance of having him speak is we cannot grasp...

music

I met him many years ago in Delhi, found Gulshan Kumar to be a very affectionate and warm person. He had a very intelligent approach to his work and business, as I observed in those days.

industry

Sewage diving in the Indian summer heat. Talk of an extreme of human rights violation for these poor men... First they heave off the cement cover to the sewage drain below.