Bird Watching

It is a good feeling when you are able to identify the birds around you. 

Had been for a bird walk this morning at Empress Garden (Pune) conducted by the Rupa Rahul Bajaj Centre for Environment and Art.  

The Indian Paradise Flycatcher was very elusive and I managed to get one shot of her long tail. 

Spotted many Grey Hornbills and what I observed was that they are always in pairs or in three.  

It was easy to spot the Ashy Drongo with his fork tail and most of my pictures turned out to be silhouettes. 

The white breasted waterhen is around waterbodies and is very shy, so had to take a video shot from far. 

The Black Kite was there in all her majesty and it was fun to watch the crow having a flying duel with the Kite.

The team gets excited when they spot and identify a particular bird. 

Kedar sharing some knowledge about the birds.

I have strung up the pictures and videos to make it into a small video.

Thanks to the bird walk, I now know that this is the purple sunbird who visits my terrace garden daily morning.

Hope to do more bird walks and spot more birds.  

The Empress Garden

The landscaping was good and the evening light was perfect to capture this. 

Every time when I enter the Empress Garden (in Pune) I am in awe of this structure which must have been standing there for more than a century 

and so are these tall trees that are standing as a mute witness to all that is happening around it 

The flower show and the sale of the Garden items that is held every year had something unique this time and that is the landscaping of the place by Dr Krishna Chavan. Liked his concept of “Love Green Live Green”

One can’t miss the lavish spread of green with splashes of colourful flowers.

The perfect background  for selfie seekers. 

For a minute I thought that these are real flamingos   

There were other activities too like flower show competition and Bonsai display

This was organised by the Agri-Horticulture Society of Western India. You can have a glimpse of everything in this short video.

I was told that the exhibition and the sale will continue till 27th of January.