“monsoon”

wildlife · birds

We spotted this Spotted Munia in our Delhi garden one monsoon day this week, as a surprise. They don't normally venture our way, but the monsoon weather and tall grasses have undoubtedly made it attractive for them to visit us now...

wildlife · birds

With its long tail feathers reaching out of the nest, this male Darzi chidiya settles on to a bed of cotton and fibers between two stitched together leaves, the monsoon humidity outside makes the poor Tailor Bird pant through an open beak.

forest · wildlife

Venomous poisonous Malabar Pit Viper snake seen on a rainy night at Thattekad forest in Kerala's Salim Ali National Park What rules your imagination when the word ‘Western Ghats’ comes to mind? Mountains? Streams? Rainforest! A dense forest…

wildlife · birds

The Tailor Bird completes the nest and then begins to incubate its eggs, after laying them...

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...

birds · forest

A preening Hawk Eagle. See the strong legs with barred feathering plumage, and the long tail feathers and outer tail retrices, as it preens itself of mites and parasites on a wet monsoon day, sitting first on an Oak or Banj and later on on…

birds · farmland

Note the tiny insect parasites and ecto-parasites sitting on the face of the peahen, as she sits still in a diligent fashion on her clutch of eggs that lie in a little scrape on the ground.

birds · dance

Indian Peafowl is a pheasanidae species: Watch the male's display often called a dancing Peacock, at the wildfilmsindia Orchard in Delhi.

highway · wildlife

Thanks to greedy Delhi Jal Board digging of a sewer line during the monsoon rainy season (the worst time to do so, but the Chief Engineer wanted the contract before his retirement!), a lorry got stuck and caught in a pothole.

Rajasthan·wildlife · birds

At the Sonkhaliya crossing, early morning at 5 am, schoolgirls get ready for school, edging with the monsoon rains.

wildlife · village

The Lesser Florican (Sypheotides indicus), also known as the Likh, is a large bird in the bustard family and the only member of the genus Sypheotides.

wildlife · birds

A Red-wattled Lapwing is observed on green ground during active rainfall. This ground-dwelling bird is common across open fields, wetlands, and urban green spaces in India.

birds

Panting in the summer heat and sunshine, this dedicated Peahen Mum sits on her remaining eggs, the hatched chicks playing between her wings.

wildlife · village

The Kharmor, as it is locally known, glorifying its mating display, which is a jumping action, which usually takes place in the fields.

wildlife · village

The Kharmor, as it is locally known, glorifying its mating display, which is a jumping action, which usually takes place in the fields.

wildlife · village

The Kharmor, as it is locally known, is known for its mating display, which is a jumping action, which usually takes place in the grasslands of Southeast Rajasthan.

wildlife · village

The Kharmor, as it is locally known, glorifying its mating display, which is a jumping action, which usually takes place in the fields.

wildlife · birds

Bats in Indonesia, with the whistle of a bird that sounds like a Golden Oriole in the backdrop.

wildlife · birds

The Lesser Florican (Sypheotides indicus), also known as the Likh, is a large bird in the bustard family and the only member of the genus Sypheotides.

birds · wildlife

Grey Hornbill as seen in Rashtrapati Bhavan- The President's estate. In June 2013, a pair of Indian Grey Hornbills was found to be nesting along the Nature Trail within the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Gujarat·monsoon · wildlife

An entire breeding season has been lost for them - those that survived the pre-existing threats from dog killings and electrical wire electrocutions! The Phoenicopterous minor or Lesser Flamingo is a species in the Flamingo family of birds…

wildlife · village

The Kharmor, as it is locally known, glorifying its mating display, which is a jumping action, which usually takes place in the fields.

wildlife · village

The Kharmor, as it is locally known, glorifying its mating display, which is a jumping action, which usually takes place in the fields.

Haryana·wildlife · birds

A female Indian peafowl or peahen incubating her clutch of large off-white eggs in the underbrush of an unoccupied house, under a shrub in Sector 17B, Gurgaon, Haryana, India.