A Pariah Kite comes visiting

Look who came visiting us today. We found this Kite (Pariah Kite, as WildlifeSOS identified it in a tweet) sitting on our balcony today morning! It was too foggy for a February morning. Visibility was nearly zero in many places in Gurgaon, but our place was better off, though it was not sunny. Since I …

An unlikely bird sanctuary

These pictures were taken last December (2010), not at any regular bird sanctuary, but right in the middle of a town; right besides a world-renowned monument. Any guesses where? These were taken from the Taj Mahal, into the Yamuna river which flows right behind. We had gone to the Bharatpur bird sanctuary, and where  disappointed …