With the scorching summer that we are experiencing here, there are water shortages everywhere. My borewell which watered my garden faithfully for ten years, has suddenly run dry. Today's early morning showers have brought some relief to the plants , although it was not sufficient to fill up our dwindling village pond.
Farmers are friends of egrets. When this farmer was cutting the grass in a swamp, a group of egrets surrounded him to feast on the insects which were being disturbed by him.
The farmer cut huge heaps of grass to take away for his cattle. The egrets were still feasting.
The reflections of the flamingos were pinker than the birds themselves.
From a distance, they look like crows, sitting patiently on the poles , waiting for the fish to surface.
The cormorants have other competitors like the storks and the egrets, all waiting for a juicy morsel.
However, the cormorants are the smartest anglers. I have seen one bird catch and swallow a fish bigger than itself, in a smooth operation.
These huge dahlias were blooming in a garden in Indore.
The blue shade of the Thunbergia bengalensis is very soothing.
Orchids and bromeliads from a garden in Mumbai.
The Powai Lake mirrors a small part of Mumbai.
Every year, during this season, flocks of flamingos arrive in the outskirts of Mumbai from the colder places in the northern latitudes. I was lucky to see them last Saturday, as I was convalescing in Mumbai at the time.
Since it was hardly a week since the welcome visitors had arrived to browse in the mud flats of the Airoli creek, they hadn't yet got their bright pink colour.. ...
although some of the birds did look as though they had just played Holi, which had been played with the usual gusto by Indians, a few days back.
Greetings to all my blogger friends and visitors! After a long absence during my surgery and convalescence, I am happy to be back in blogland! And with loads of pictures of different flowers and birds, too!
The hospital I was in had a beautiful garden, which had flowers which are not usually seen in the tropics.
Banks of red poppies gladden the heart.
Pansies are some other flowers which I have tried to grow unsuccessfully.
Petunias were a familiar sight, but there were other flowers whose names I did not know.
