Indian Robin is such a common bird around the neighborhood. And yet I hardly ever managed a decent picture. I know this one is a F5.6 picture and gives no clue about the habitat but then this one was sitting on a boundary wall and the background is of a wall of a house. I…
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Purple Sunbird is Now More Purple
Purple Sunbird has been a constant on my bird rounds in the neighborhood. I almost always get it these days on the bottle brush trees. I am curious to see if it will become even more purple this Saturday and Sunday. It has been getting darker every week. And I am going out tomorrow, a…
Yet Another Bird Picture!
Liked the open beak and the hairstyle of the Brahimny Starling that I could capture but honestly I am longing for a trip and not more birds. OK if a trip is not happening then birds will have to do but I really want to get out. The trouble is I have exhausted all my leaves and…
Evening Colors
It is such a pity that I am no longer a morning person and when the sky changes colors in the evening I end up commuting back from work 5 days a week. Yesterday I was staying late at work due to the students college festival and decided to take my camera out for a…
Friday Flowers- Peacock Flowers
I first cropped this picture but then I decided that I will let it go as it is. All the peacock flower and butterflies and bees were clicked in October 2010 during the Commonwealth Games break!
Another Mustard Sunset
I love being around mustard fields around the sunset time, it gives quite an opportunity to play around with different settings. For more pictures of skies from around the world, visit the Skywatch Page.
West End Hotel, Mumbai
In January I went to Mumbai twice, maybe it is because of that I am struggling to get out in February, I exhausted my Feb quota in Jan itself. One of the visits was to chair a session of NHRD on social media. The session itself was quite enjoyable but this post it about the…
A Dinner at Cafe Leopold
On one of my recent visits to Mumbai, I had a dinner at Cafe Leopold. When I came back home and told this to Brat 1 (my elder nephew) he immediately remarked, ‘Shantaram.’ Wikipedia also confirms that there are extensive references to Leopold Cafe in the novel Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts. When we went…
Another Tryst with the Blue Throat
It is not difficult to spot the Blue Throat near the Ganda Nala (open drainage) but it is certainly a game of patience to wait for it to come out in the open, relatively speaking. After 45 minutes of sitting patiently this is what I got. If I do not get to see the bird…