“monsoon”

wildlife · birds

Common Tailor Bird stitches its nest with elan: India's darzi chidiya also known as Orthotomus sutorius for sutures that it makes.

wildlife · birds

A Darzi chidiya creates sutures to expertly stitch together its leaf nest. Expertly and deftly weaving the cotton fibers it has collected from plants and leaves, this Tailor Bird makes little holes in two Teak tree leaves that it has brough…

birds · wildlife

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

wildlife · birds

The Sarus crane is the tallest flying bird in the world standing 152-156 cm tall with a wingspan of 240cm. It has a predominantly grey plumage with a naked red head and upper neck and pale red legs.

Uttarakhand·birds · wildlife

You will have doubtless heard the Kulchure or Himalayan Whistling Thrush even if you have not seen it, on a visit to the mountains up north! The trilling loud whistle of the Whistling Thrush, most often heard in the monsoons, is a familiar…

highway · wildlife

Roads of New Delhi! A Maruti Gypsy or Suzuki Samuri of the Indian Air Force and a Tata truck of the Indian Army, and a construction or road cleaning crane all negotiate the monsoon flooded roads of Delhi.

birds · wildlife

Kotwal chidiya or Grey Drongo has a ruby red eye, a forked tail and bluish-grey plumage that makes it stand out and be most visible, especially as it sits on vantage points and the tops of trees, in our middle hills in the western Himalaya.…

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.

wildlife · birds

The delicate monsoon-time leaf buds of the Ficus benghalensis of Barh tree look fresh even as the green leaves next door look shiny, in this lovely vision.

wildlife · birds

A juvenile Indian Grey Hornbill is dozing in Delhi in peak summer/monsoon. With a less developed casque the bird sits on a small branch with its beak wide open.

coastline · monsoon

Goa actually has a wild wilderness side to it, with bird sanctuaries, estuaries, secluded coasts and rivers with wooded banks.

birds · wildlife

Is this Bagla spreading its wings to balance or to frighten fish out of their hiding spots? See the successful monsoon fishing strategy at work! Spotted in gushing water alone, an adult Little Egret or Egretta garzetta is fishing in a runni…

birds · highway

The Pied Mynas seem to be oblivious of the maddening honking and the myna calls during sunset.

wildlife · birds

Hear the lovely kurr-kurr call of the Sarus Crane! The Sarus crane is the tallest flying bird in the world standing 152-156 cm tall with a wingspan of 240cm.

birds · hills

Verditer Flycatcher has a lovely trilling call, male is deep sky blue while female is a lighter blue Deep sky blue Verditer Flycatcher at wildfilmsindia Motidhar bird sanctuary: A prettier Himalayan bird there isn't! Verditer Flycatcher qui…

Madhya Pradesh·river · wildlife

Driving across the bridge of the monsoon swollen brown watered Ken River - even flooded - one comes to the entrance gate of Panna National Park in Madla. Turn to one side and you enter the Ken River Lodge through Madla village.

farmland · wildlife

Greater Coucal with its smart black attire, rufous wing and ruby red eye, seen at Wilderness Orchard in the New Delhi spring, with Californian Poppies in flower and a breeding season bird call round from a male Magpie Robin.

wildlife · birds

Perfectly camouflaged among the green leaves, this Tailor Bird starts out as a mass of jumbled cotton fiber among the leaves, but soon the form begins to come together and take shape.