When I came home for lunch, one of the 3 had come in to the open central courtyard. Amazingly, the parent was feeding it there. When I returned in...
It survived one night out of nest. Checked one chick guided by one parent in the junk shed and from there the little one flew into the bushy...
Benches, buildings and cleanliness. Good. The last image reminded me of Mysuru! Looks like the yellow is Tabebuia tree and the red is...
They are so common and found almost everywhere. Indeed, they are very attractive. They live in large numbers in our workplace which is a huge...
Today's good news is that the chicks are out of the nest, taken wings. The last I saw them this evening before dusk was in a neighbouring shrub...
In the above picture, my two Jasmine plants are seen at the back. Thanks eileen. I think Nature designs the balance of survivors in His own way....
http://mysoreanmusings.blogspot.in/2014/09/spotted-dove-and-its-eggs.html I had blogged [read above link] about my excitement on being able to...
I agree with toni... it looks very much like Spathodea, also called 'flame of the forest'.
To be Frank...... sorry, frank... almost like Frank.... but not exactly... I just put what people call me, short of 'Dinakar' - with a soft 'D'....
I've grown fond of saying "I am living here for 150 years." This is a rough figure. I'm in fact the 5th generation living in Mysuru. From an...
We get this one here. Common Grass Yellow. At first glance, we see resemblance.
http://dinusyarden.blogspot.in/2013/11/blue-tiger-caterpillar-pupates.html This is my blogpost on how I captured a Plain Tiger butterfly...
Thanks Eileen and Vitrsna. Last night at 1 a.m there was a heavy thunderstorm. I had got up to attend N/call at that time when it started...
Thanks. There were two of my friends also that suggested me to make a wall hanging of these flowers, pressed.... I learn there is some technique...
This is in Mysuru's vintage market, the building was built in the mid 1880s. My wife [not one in the picture] buys if she sees anything fresh....
As an experiment I had kept shallow trays at the bottom, which are the remaining bottoms of broken buckets! I wanted to see if that self-watering...
[ATTACH] What you see above are refill packets we buy from the stores, usually food related. Since they are of good material, I use them mostly...
It is really rare to know the lineage of 1300 years. Very amazing. Thanks for taking time to share the history. Qasim Bagh looks like a really...
On Saturday, I had some free time to spend in the yard. So I thought of taking some shots of the different sides as it looked towards the end of...
This is a picture I took on Saturday. [ATTACH] A parent waiting to go to the nest with a little insect to feed. [ATTACH]
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