Monsoons!!

Red-rumpted swallow

Monsoon finally hit Nagpur in all its glory on Friday – We celebrated the event by going out for a drive by the Telangkhedi lake side in near zero visibility with some friends.

Well, honestly, it was not planned that way, the plan was to go and see all the birds which feast on the flying termites which come out after the first (pre-monsoon) shower but we were expecting rains and the children were wanting to soak in the rain and for a few minutes all the adults revelled in being children 🙂

We later stopped at the famous Samosa walla and had piping hot Sams – apparently a whole lot of people had the same idea as us and the fellow was doing a roaring business.

Saturday saw us again out… The picture on the left was taken when suddenly this pretty bird alighted right in front of our car as soon as we stopped – It was a pair of Red Rumped Swallows and they were collecting mud for their nests. That day we also captured a Leucistic Jungle Babbler.

Sunday was spent tucked pleasantly indoors 🙂

  • The Jungle babbler pic would be a wonderful addition to OBI (if you’ve not already submitted it!) 🙂

    • Indeed… several uploads to OBI from me are due (Krys feels the same as well) but right now I want to finish working on the OBI code first.

  • What a beautiful bird!

    • Yes, we were lucky to see it sitting on the ground… they are, like most swallows, usually seen in flight and somewhat shy