birds

birds

A female Purple Sunbird peers out of her camouflaged pendulous nest which looks like a sack of dried leaves, as she sits and incubates her eggs, while her male which is purple in colour enjoys the nectar on a Dhak or Flame of the Forest tre…

birds

The Night Heron is a smart blue - grey water bird with a ruby red eye, as it meditates over a water body, hoping to launch a lightning speed surprise strike on potential prey which could be a frog or a small fish.

village · birds

Village blacksmith at work in rural OdishL The repetitive sound is akin to akin to a Coppersmith Barbet's call! The rhythms of India... A village metalsmith or blacksmith creates a large knife made of iron, in Orissa, India.

birds · flowers

Cute tota chick stares out of nest for first time! Parakeet male and female do rounds as they feed the ever hungry mouths. The tota family has nested in the hollow of a Jacaranda tree in Delhi.

birds · farmland

A Coppersmith and Green Barbet pair each breeding inside a Jacaranda tree trunk in April 2023, at Wilderness Orchard in Delhi.

birds · wildlife

Purple Sunbird partakes of nectar from a Palash or Flame of the Forest Dhak tree in Delhi's late spring season.

birds · flowers

India's common Tota or Rose-ringed Parakeet - See a couple billing prior to breeding season A parakeet couples bills when commencing breeding - a form of intimate activity for birds.

birds · flowers

A parakeet couple bills when commencing breeding - a form of intimate activity for birds. India's common Tota or Rose-ringed Parakeet - See a couple billing prior to breeding season

birds · wildlife

The Brahminy of Black-headed Myna is a less common Myna species that can sometimes be seen around our cities, but it prefers the precincts of trees and fairly wooded areas, and even nests in hollow tree-trunks, accessing the nest holes from…

birds · hills

The Yellow-cheeked Bulbul from the hills has a jaunty crest atop its head and a yellow vent below its tail, whereas the plains Yellow-vented Bulbul has not such crest.

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

A melange of Himalayan birds: Himalayan Blue Whistling Thrush or the Whistling School-boy, male Kaleej Pheasant and Yellow-naped Woodpecker, Verditer Flycatcher and Black Sibia, White-capped Redstart, Spotted Forktail, White-cheeked Bulbul…

birds · wildlife

Barbet flies to its nest-hole: This is the Crimson-breasted Barbet or Coppersmith bird that makes the repetitive tuk-tuk sound of a coppersmith at work.

birds · farmland

Sleep deprived owl! This poor sleepy Owl or rather Spotted Owlet tries to grab a nap on a bright summer day at Wilderness Orchard Sleepy Owl: This poor Spotted Owlet tries to grab a nap on a bright summer day at Wilderness Orchard

birds · farmland

A parakeet couple bill and hang out at their nest-hole. Tota ka ghonsla: Parakeet couple at their nest-hole at wildfilmsindia orchard in Delhi

birds · wildlife

Cute birds playing in water: Red-whiskered Bulbul and a pair of Red-vented Bulbul hop around in a spring-time rain water puddle, as seen in slow motion. Common Myna birds follow suit.

birds

Does this Owl have eyes at the back of its head? It sure seems like it does!

birds · hills

Turquoise-like Verditer Flycatcher trills on dead grey branch against blue sky: Perfect blue on blue! Deep blue bird catches evening light sitting on a Himalayan Cedar or deodar branch, and looks deceptively like a different bird but is rea…

birds · hills

Turquoise-like Verditer Flycatcher trills on dead grey branch against blue sky: Perfect blue on blue! Deep blue bird catches evening light sitting on a Himalayan Cedar or deodar branch, and looks deceptively like a different bird but is rea…

hills · birds

A Hill Partridge calling in background audio, a female Chestnut-bellied Thrush sits atop a branch at the Wilderness Orchard in the Himalaya.

wildlife · birds

Intrusive farmlands on the outskirts of Chilika lake in Odisha. Bird habitat is being eaten up by agriculture and human activity.

birds · wildlife

The Verditer Flycatcher trills beautifully, with its brilliant blue plumage shining in the summer sunshine of the Himalaya, offset by the green forest hues behind.

Jodhpur, Rajasthan·wildlife · birds

These are not Demoiselles but the less common 'Common Cranes'! And how nice that they also get hospitality near Jodhpur, along the Jodhpur-Jaipur highway, freely feeding and existing in the winter months in unprotected farm lands and villag…

flowers · birds

Egret perches precariously on moving water lily leaves, to launch attack on fish, spooks them out of hiding with its shadow play and wing motions!