The Oriental darter (Anhinga melanogaster) is a water bird of tropical South Asia and Southeast Asia. It has a long and slender neck with a straight, pointed bill and, like the cormorant, it hunts for fish while its body is submerged in water. It spears a fish underwater, bringing it above the surface, tossing and juggling it before swallowingContinueContinue reading “Picturesque Friday – Oriental Darter”
Category Archives: Wetland Birds
Picturesque Friday 7 – Painted Stork
The painted stork is a large wader in the stork family. It is found in the wetlands of the plains of tropical Asia south of the Himalayas in the Indian Subcontinent and extending into Southeast Asia. Their distinctive pink tertial feathers of the adults give them their name. This image is clicked at Kumbhargaon, BhigwanContinueContinue reading “Picturesque Friday 7 – Painted Stork”
Picturesque Friday 4 – Spotted Owlet
The image features a Spotted Owlet. This is often referred to as Jungle Owlet. The Spotted Owlet is a small owl that breeds in tropical Asia, from India to Southeast Asia. This photographs are clicked at Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur, Rajasthan, India. Enjoy your weekend and thanks for stopping by.
Picturesque Friday 2 – Plum Headed Parakeet
Plum Headed Parakeet is brilliantly-colored parakeet; males have a plum-colored head while females have grayish-blue head. Endemic to the Indian subcontinent where it can occur in any well-wooded area outside NE India and the high Himalayas. Similar to the largely non-overlapping Blossom-headed Parakeet, but shows a darker shade of plum or gray on the headContinueContinue reading “Picturesque Friday 2 – Plum Headed Parakeet”
Travel to Seven Sister States
What are your future travel plans? I love to travel and explore new places, new people and different cultures. Being a wildlife photographer, I have been travelling a lot across India especially to the tiger reserves and other wildlife reserves. But still my bucket list is full with many places to visit. And the topContinueContinue reading “Travel to Seven Sister States”
Photography – Grey Crowned Crane
Grey Crowned Crane @Masai Mara A spectacular, mostly blue-gray crane with a black-and-white face and a crown of golden-yellow plumes. Immatures are rustier than adults. Singles, pairs, and flocks prefer wetlands, flooded grasslands, and man-made water bodies, but they can range widely through other open habitats when foraging. Resident but may be locally nomadic inContinueContinue reading “Photography – Grey Crowned Crane”
Photography – ODKF
Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher with Baby Frog This is very popular bird amongst Bird Photographers & Bird wathers. It is also referred to as Colour Bomb due to it’s colourful body. We photographers, eagerly await the rainy season to spot & click this beautiful tiny bird. It is pocket size bird and found in tropical, moistContinueContinue reading “Photography – ODKF”
भरतपुर पक्षी अभयारण्य
Early morning view भरतपुर बद्दल थोडेसे भरतपूर पक्षी अभयारण्य म्हणून ओळखले जाणारे केवलादेव राष्ट्रीय उद्यान हे हिवाळ्यात पक्षी निरीक्षक आणि पक्षी छायाचित्रकारांसाठी देशातील सर्वोत्तम ठिकाणांपैकी एक आहे. हे जंगल फक्त २९ चौरस किमी क्षेत्रफळाचे आहे आणि इथे पाणथळ पक्ष्यांसाठी पाणथळ जागा तयार केल्या आहेत. आकाराने लहान असले तरी खूप उच्च क्षमता आणि वेगळेपणा आहे. महाराजांच्याContinueContinue reading “भरतपुर पक्षी अभयारण्य”
Jaikwadi Bird Sanctuary
We visited Sonewadi Point of Jaikwadi Bird Sanctuary. It is some 65 km from Sambhajinagar ( Aurangabad). I got the news that Greater Flamingos have arrived here so we visited this place for bird photography. We could see following birds here. Common hawk cuckoo Common Kingfisher Black neck Ibis Sanderling Location Sonewadi point is aContinueContinue reading “Jaikwadi Bird Sanctuary”
Photography – My Passion
What activities do you lose yourself in? Loosing yourself in any activity means forgetting everything around and focusing completely on that activity. It can become meditation for self. I love nature and photography is my passion. Whenever we go out on photography expeditions I am completely lost in the activity. Not even bothered about timeContinueContinue reading “Photography – My Passion”
World Wildlife Day
World Wildlife Day reminds us all of the need to maintain the world’s ecosystems and invest in their future, whether we are nature lovers, conservationists, or adventure travelers. Celebrated annually on March 3, World Wildlife Day is an international celebration of the immense variety of life on our planet and a call for the protectionContinueContinue reading “World Wildlife Day”
भिगवण : पक्षीप्रेमींचा कुंभमेळा
ग्रेटर फ्लेमीनगो मला अजूनही तो दिवस आठवतो जेव्हा मी पहिल्यांदा Bhigwan ला गेलो होतो. आम्ही सकाळी साधारण साडे सहा च्या सुमारास Kumbhargaon मध्ये पोहोचलो. Bhigwan Bus Stand पासून थोडे पुढे आल्यावर डाव्या बाजूला एक वळण येते तिथून Kumbhargaon चा रास्ता सुरू होतो. तिथून साधारण सात ते आठ किलोमीटर्स गेल्यावर आपण Kumbhargaon ला पोहोचतो. पोहोचल्यावर समोरचContinueContinue reading “भिगवण : पक्षीप्रेमींचा कुंभमेळा”
Bharatpur – Birders Paradise
Early morning view About Baharatpur The Keoladeo National Park, better known as Bharatpur, is one of the best places in the country for bird watchers and bird photographers during winter season. The forest is just 29 Sq. Km in area with created wetlands for wetland birds. Even though such a small in size but havingContinueContinue reading “Bharatpur – Birders Paradise”
Kavdi Paat Birding
Kavadi is a small village at about 20 Km from Pune which is full of water birds. There is a small bridge on water body from where you can spot birds on both sides. Here you have opportunity to photograph River Turns, Common Teal, Spot Billed Duck, Common Sandpipers, Black winged stilt, Brahminy duck, Eurasian coot etc.
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