Sunday morning photo walk at Lalbagh Botanical Gardens was pretty eventful. Here's a photo tour of the interesting things I saw...
Sun rays seeping through trees...
An Ashy Drongo looks for flying insects to eat...
He didn't have to wait too long for his meal...
Brahminy Kite...
Brahminy kites are very wicked. They indulge in kleptoparasitism and attempt to steal prey from other birds. Here's one such successful attempt...
Large-Billed Crow...
A Cormorant caught a fish...
A female Indian Golden Oriole caught a caterpillar...
Dillenia indica, commonly known as Elephant Apple. Asian elephants appear to have a particular fondness for the hard fruit which is accessible only to the megaherbivores. Elephants are important seed dispenser for this tree. With the prospects of extinction of the elephants this tree has developed a back-up system, whereby its hard fruits that were only accessible to megaherbivores, slowly soften on the forest floor through the dry season to allow access to successively smaller animals such as macaques, rodents and squirrels. Seeds from both old and soft fruits are able to germinate well, enabling the persistence of this tree to be independent of the survival of its major megaherbivore disperser...
Red-Whiskered Bulbul...
Squirrel...
A little girl picked up a severed tail of a squirrel. Squirrels have detachable tails. If a predator grabs a squirrel's tail, the tail's skin will harmlessly detach, allowing the squirrel to escape.
White-cheeked Barbet...
Common Moorhen
Common Moorhen
Mottled Wood Owl...
Mottled Wood Owl...
A White-browed Wagtail catches a dragonfly...
White-browed Wagtail
White-Throated Kingfisher...
White-Throated Kingfisher...
The real king fisher of the day was this Cormorant exhibiting a clinical catch...
