Bird list from Kutch visit, 21st Jan 2010 to 28th Jan 2010

Am sure I have missed some larks and warblers which I just didn’t care to note and a few waders which I could not identify. The thing I am most thrilled about is having 37 lifers

  1. Grey Francolin Francolinus pondicerianus
  2. Black Francolin Francolinus francolinus – Lifer
  3. Yellow-legged Buttonquail Turnix tanki
  4. Indian Peafowl Pavo cristatus
  5. Lesser Whistling-duck Dendrocygna javanica
  6. Gadwall Anas strepera
  7. Spot-billed Duck Anas poecilorhyncha
  8. Common Teal Anas crecca
  9. Garganey Anas querquedula
  10. Northern Pintail Anas acuta
  11. Northern Shoveler Anas clypeata
  12. Yellow-crowned Woodpecker  Dendrocopus mahrattensis
  13. Common Hoopoe Upupa epops
  14. Indian Roller Coracias benghalensis
  15. Common Kingfisher Alcedo atthis Read the complete list of 160
Eurasian Wryneck – A woodpecker which is unlike any…

Eurasian Wryneck – A woodpecker which is unlike any…

Eurasian Wrynecks are somewhat uncommon in Nagpur. They are winter visitors to India and till very recently I did not know that they are actually woodpeckers because they are unlike any other woodpeckers.

My first photo of 2010

My first photo of 2010

I just realized that this was the first photo that I took in 2010. We were on our regular morning walk and the roads were pretty much deserted. This particular fellow we have been tracking since it was a juvenile just out of the nest. Usually raptors are very camera shy but this individual I

Plain Tiger (Danaus chrysippus)

Plain Tiger (Danaus chrysippus)

The Plain Tiger (Danaus chrysippus) or outside Asia, African Monarch, is a common butterfly which is widespread in Asia and Africa. It belongs to the Danainae (“Milkweed butterflies”) subfamily of the brush-footed butterfly family, Nymphalidae. It is believed to be one of the first butterflies to be used in art. A 3500 year old Egyptian

20th Photo on Flickr Explore

20th Photo on Flickr Explore

Woke up to find I have the 20th entry into Flickr explore 1. Eye of the tiger!!, 2. The woodpecker and the squirrel, 3. Indian Pitta, 4. Red-crested Pochard – male, 5. Barn Swallow, 6. Common picturewing – Rhyothemis variegata, 7. Tickell’s Blue Flycatcher, 8. Cleared for landing!!, 9. I know that smell!!, 10. Damsels

Half of what 2009 was….

June 22nd 2009 revived the journal/blog. June 30th 2009 Contributed to two small Open source projects – JQuery Autocorrect and WordPress DateTitle. July 2nd 2009 Sangita was here. Met her after a gap of 10 years. July 7th 2009 Saw more FOSS contribution from SANIsoft – this time 3 more jQuery plugins. July 19th 2009

The woodpecker and the squirrel

The woodpecker and the squirrel

It happened on a cloudy September day, an amusing encounter

Live Flickr Comments Importer

A quick note for those who follow my blog but not the SANIsoft blog. The WordPress Plugin to import comments from your Flickr Photos into your WordPress posts is now listed at https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/live-flickr-comment-importer/ and the plugin home page is at https://www.sanisoft.com/blog/2009/12/15/wordpress-plugin-live-flickr-comment-importer/ Bug reports, feature request and patches most welcome

Testing Flickr Comment Import plugin

Testing Flickr Comment Import plugin

Yesterday I hacked a plugin which allows importing of comments from Flickr into a WordPress post, however I am not releasing this iteration of the plugin because It does not really use the Flickr API but the recent activity RSS feed It involves the WordPress user entering a custom field called flickr_ID which should have

Black-tailed Godwit at Nagpur in November

This is a picture I took on 27th Nov 2009 at Ambhazari Lake, Nagpur. The bird with the long beak is a ‘Western’ Black-tailed Godwit, Limosa limosa in it’s winter, non breeding plumage of this bird. These birds migrate from Central Asia (Far East Russia) to India for wintering. In Nagpur we see them only