Birds of Abu April and May 2010

 

Black Bird Forerunner to the monsoons in Abu

Taken at Gyan Sarovar

Black-rumped Flameback taken at Adarsh Vidya Mandir

Bulbul in my garden

Bulbul Feeding

Fledgling Sparrow Hawk found on the with left leg injured

( Gujarat circuit house)

ID Please?(Adarsh Vidya Mandir)

Thanks Darryl I suspected it would be the "Black Shouldered Kite” but I needed a confirmation

Indian Robin female

Indian Robin fledgling

Jungle Crow (Adarsh Vidya Mandir)

Magpie Robin behind my house Kumarwada

Whistling away

Red-rumped Swallow

Red-rumped Swallow Nr Neel Kant Mandir

Shucks where has all the water disappeared ?

water body gone bone dry on the way to Achalgarh

Red-vented Bulbul (Oria)

Red-wattled Lapwing (Army firing range)

Sparrow Hawk fledgling

He's being nursed by my niece Cresentia

What a beauty hope he recovers to make it back into the wild

Spotted Dove ( My Back yard)

Sunbird

Sunbird (female)

Black Bird Mount Abu

Black Bird in flight

Black Bird

Black Bird

I think it’s appropriate that I start my 101st blog with a graceful harbinger. The Black bird is an omen of the impending monsoons to the Abode of the Gods. The more the black birds the better the monsoons. I recall my ole man mentioning to me in my youth that the year when scorpions and lizards come out in large numbers, that year the monsoons will be extraordinary. So far I have hardly seen any lizards as for scorpions they have become a rarity. Hope the rain gods smile down on us this year as we are in a very precarious situation, our water recourses are already strained.