a collection of ramblings
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,… Continue reading maybe my heart is full of sky
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.
A juvenile Jungle Prinia poses for the camera in Valparai, Tamil Nadu.
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… Continue reading Oh, Shrikes! (pt. 2)
A juvenile Pied Bush-chat gives me a piercing glare from the fringes of the tea bushes in Valparai, Tamil Nadu.
A female Plumbeous Redstart sits by a mountain stream in Kullu, Himachal Pradesh.
Two Korean Magpies overlook Mount Tai in Shandong Province, China.
A Pacific Swallow ruminates on life when perched on a post in Dairy Farm Nature Reserve.
An Eurasian Spoonbill stands on the banks of Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary, in Karnataka, India.
I will never stop being excited about the Western Ghats. There, even being woken up in the morning is a thrilling experience, because the bird doing the waking up is the Malabar Whistling Thrush, a bird you will see - or, more likely than not, hear - nowhere else in the world. The Ghats have… Continue reading Whistling Wonders
somewhere up a tree 