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
Tag: bird spottings
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
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… Continue reading Oh, Shrikes! (pt. 2)
Bush Chat at the Bush’s Edge
Redstart by the River
Magpie Mountain
Swallow on a Stick
Spoonbill at the Side
Whistling Wonders
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