Category: Birds

I was walking to the ATM in my college campus and a bonanza I had! I remember he other day I was walking that way and just had a glimpse of the bird and two of us were saying they look like sparrows! I have seen the nests of the Weaver bird before but not…

I am Loving it!

It has been raining sunbirds these days. Every time I  go to the backyard, there they are, having a good time in the Malti flowers. And then they sometimes go on the fence as well that our neighbors have put on the wall. This one let me take at least 50 shots. And then I…

Clicked this yesterday when this one was roaming in the pomegranate tree in my backyard. It let me come amazingly close with my camera and let me click good 10 shots before it flew away.

I thought this was a baby sunbird but then when I asked at Indiamike I realized that it is adult male sunbird in the eclipse plumage. Clicked this when the light was fading and the sky was overcast hence this gloomy background. The good part was that the bird was quite close to me, hence…

You probably cannot see the wries but it is a wired tailed swallow.

Apologies for misidentifying this Juvenile Shikra as a Hawk initially. The resident expert at Indiamike says it it a Shikra then Shikra it has to be! Look Where I have landed! One of my colleagues called me yesterday to show me this. The Shikra and we were safe, protected by two layers of glass. Both my…