Time does not change us….
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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us. Max Frisch Celebrating 19 years of marriage today. P.S. Thanks to Shweta for this lovely capture Tweet
Category Archives: Mundane Musings
Revamped NagpurBirds website launched
NagpurBirds website was launched in April 2005 as a support website for birders in Nagpur city. It was based on a modified version of Coppermine Picture gallery, at that time Coppermine served the purpose but with passing of time maintaining the script in sync with the main project become a problem and uploads had to be restricted to Admin only. Year 2012 has seen a surge in birding related activity in Nagpur and there was Read More…
Share and you will be rewarded….
Last year on 17th May I got a short message on Flickr. “Are your photos available for purchase. Would love to purchase one of your photo’s”, I replied back with an equally short “which one”. The reply to which was that sender was an artist and woud like to use my Elephant charge as a part of his art work. Since I don’t really sell my photographs and all of them are under a Creative Read More…
10 years of journaling…
Exactly 10 years ago I wrote my first rather inane journal entry on Live Journal. Seems a very long time ago from one perspective and then not. It is interesting to look at your past 10 years on a single page. The most visually striking thing is perhaps my travails as a photographer from the early days of my first 1 megapixel camera till now. However that is not what I remember the early days for…. I Read More…
Primordial….
There is something primordial about a croc lurking in the shade of trees in a placid river… The binomial name for the Nile Crocodile; Crocodylus niloticus is derived from the Greek kroko (“pebble”), deilos (“worm”, or “man”), referring to its rough skin; and niloticus, meaning “from the Nile River”. The Nile crocodile is called Timsah al-Nil in Arabic, Mamba in Swahili, Garwe in Shona, Ngwenya in Ndebele, Ngwena in Venda, Kwena in Sotho and Tswana. Read More…
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How we missed the Leopard hunt…
I have some pictures of the Leopard in my portfolio but this one was for whom we waited the longest. It was sleeping when we spotted it first. There was a herd of Impalas grazing very near to the Leopard and our guide said that a hunt is very likely even though at that time the predator appeared to be at his laziest best… We waited almost for 45 minutes before he even looked up, Read More…
Murder…
Yesterday morning while replenishing the bird feeder in my balcony I witnessed a very unusual behavior by a Bhraminy Starling pair. They pounced on a female House Sparrow and ruthlessly proceeded to kill it by pecking at its neck and abdomen. Once it was dead they flew away with it!!! It took them about 2 mins to kill the sparrow. The following is the sequence as it happened…. Tweet
Saddle-billed Stork – a portrait!
This bird is represented in an Ancient Egyptian hieroglyph that had the phonetic value “ba” Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddle-billed_Stork Tweet
Oriental Pratincole
The Oriental Pratincole (Glareola maldivarum), also known as the Grasshopper-Bird or Swallow-Plover is a wader in the pratincole family, Glareolidae. Their most unusual feature of the pratincoles is that although classed as waders they typically hunt their insect prey on the wing like swallows, although they can also feed on the ground. Tweet