How do you know when you love a book? I know when I resist finishing it. It’s a habit I picked up for Lord of the Rings. Today, I did finish reading the Bird Business, by Rohan Chakravarty: the illustrated peek into the daily… Continue Reading “Happy Anniversary: Bird BUsiness”
Category: Books, Entertainment, Environment, Evolution, I think.., Philosophy, Science, tropical birds, World CultureTags: Art book, Bird behavior, Bird Business, bird courtship, bird dance, birding, BNHS, Book on Indian Birds, Book review, bushchat, cartoonist, courtship, dancing, Ecology, flamingoes, flashmob, florican, greater racquet-tailed drongo, Green Humour, Green humour cartoonist, Illustrated book, indian roller, Jacana, Mating, murmuration, sarus cranes, shimmy, shimmying, starlings, Wildlife art, wildlife illustrations
Posted on August 22, 2019
by nootropicphilosopher
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The magpie’s cult When a playful magpie takes a bath Seeing that magic, makes wine of wrath It takes the wondrous joy of a child Adds carefree zest of a teen gone wild Shakes them together into a cult That of a free, inventive… Continue Reading “The magpie’s cult- a poem and art”
Category: Entertainment, I think.., Philosophy, Phlog, Photography, Poetry, Travelogue, tropical birds, World CultureTags: Acrylic painting, artist, Artwork, bird bath, bird bathing, bird painitng, birding, frolicking, India, inspiration, inspiration for art, inspiration for drawing, inspirational, Magpie, nature art, original art, poet, Poetry, Sattal, transformation, Travel, Wildlife art, Wildlife photography, Writer
On the oak tree out front.. Male yellow rumped warbler bringing delight to my days..
Category: Environment, PhotographyTags: birding, Fluffy, Migration, Migratory birds, Nature photography, Oak, Oklahoma birds, Small birds, Warbler, Warblers, WIld, Yellow-rumped
How to see/spot/ get the double-striped thick-knee in Trinidad? (ok, to end the suspense: it is a rare bird in TT, so please continue reading for content, and sorry the photo is down below, thanks much, kisses…) Well, of course you don’t go looking… Continue Reading “How to ‘get’ a double-striped thick-knee in Trinidad”
Category: Environment, Philosophy, Photography, Science, Travelogue, tropical birds, World CultureTags: Asa wright Nature center, Bearded bell-bird, birding, Blue-headed parrots, Caroni Swamp, endangered species, Grand Riviere, Honeycreeper, Hummingbirds, Indian diaspora, Leather-back turtles, Mt. Plaisir, Nannan tours, nature, Nature photography, Owls, Pawi, Purple honeycreeper, Rare birds, Scarlet Ibis, Travel, Trinidad and Tobago, wildlife, Winston Nannan
These are, what I believe to be the best images of birds I have taken, IN THE WILD. They are also, concomitantly, a collection of my most favorite birds till date. I have the year the photos were taken in the watermark, as I… Continue Reading “My tower of song: birding and photography”
Category: Environment, Photography, tropical birdsTags: Amazon, Arima, Asa wright Nature center, Barred antshrike, Bearded bell-bird, birding, Blanchiseusse, Chestnut-colored woodpecker, Collared aracari reaching for a berry, Costa Rica, Double-striped thick knee, Endangered, Falcon, Ferruginous pygmy owl, Golden headed tanage, Green Honeycreeper, hoatzin, horned screamer, India, La Selva, Laughing Falcon, Nature photography, Northern Jacana, Oil-bird, Palm tanager, Peru, Photography, Purple honeycreeper, Rare birds, Red-legged honeycreeper, Rufous sibia, Tiger heron, Tobago, Tortuguero, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidad piping guan with epiphytes, Trumpeter swan, Water-birds, White-necked jacobins in the rain, White-tailed nightjar, Yellow-headed caracara, Yellowstone National Park
