Symphony in White

Egrets sing sonatas in the movement of their wings.

maybe my heart is full of sky

so maybe the only thing separating loving and living is an oh of amazement – the breathless sound the sky makes when falling the final gradient from dusk to twilight and back again, the way your eyes keep searching for stars only an evenmist away, how your fingertips keep feeling for worlds closeted within atoms,…

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Painted Bush-Quail

Some meditations on photography and what it means to capture something.

Hawk-Eagle of the Hills

A Legge's Hawk-Eagle looks over the hills of the Western Ghats. Formerly a subspecies of the Mountain Hawk-Eagle, its split allowed birders worldwide to add one more species to their lists.

The Prinia Poses

A juvenile Jungle Prinia poses for the camera in Valparai, Tamil Nadu.

Oh, Shrikes! (pt. 2)

The long-tailed shrike is known alternatively as the rufous-backed shrike - for reasons that highlight the confused world of bird taxonomy better than anything. The problem is that there's this thing called subspecies - which means that, for example, to take collared kingfishers, you can get two birds that are technically the same species but…

Bush Chat at the Bush’s Edge

A juvenile Pied Bush-chat gives me a piercing glare from the fringes of the tea bushes in Valparai, Tamil Nadu.

Redstart by the River

A female Plumbeous Redstart sits by a mountain stream in Kullu, Himachal Pradesh.

Magpie Mountain

Two Korean Magpies overlook Mount Tai in Shandong Province, China.

Swallow on a Stick

A Pacific Swallow ruminates on life when perched on a post in Dairy Farm Nature Reserve.