Profile Falls, New Hampshire

Last weekend we made a quick trip to Profile falls. This falls is quite away from the maddening crowd and very much concealed in NH forests. Would recommend this to anyone for a quick dip on a hot summer day!

Saturday morning at Audubon Auburn, NH

I spent an hour today morning at Audubon Centre located close to Massabesic Lake in Auburn, NH. It's lovely place for birding. In my experience evenings offer better sightings here than in mornings. I managed to shoot American Gold finch and sparrow and they let me approach them closely.

Ospreys in playful mood

Last weekend, we (myself & Rakesh along with our family ;) visited Milford, where Connecticut Audubon Society has set up a camera that captures the life cycle of the Osprey. Apparently Osprey visits this particular spot every year and nests at the exact same location. This year, Connecticut Audubon Society have setup the camera to capture everything about them to learn, understand about their behavior. We were fortunate to see them. The observing tower (with a telescope) is about 100 yards away from the nest and hence they're not disturbed by the presence of humans. More importantly anyone sitting at home can view (Click to view) what exactly those Ospreys are doing now. I saw the 3 young Ospreys playing around and learning to fly. It was really a treat to observe them in close quarters. I wish we do something similar back in our forests. How you wish to see the elusive tiger hunt during night (You obviously need an IR camera as well)!! If we but the thought itself is such exciting!

Here are some shots of those Ospreys playing and learning to fly. With my 400mm lens this is best I could manage. Probably with 600mm with 2x I could have done a better job of getting them really close. They would fly up and down for couple of seconds and come back again to the nest. Since I'd never seen a bird, literally learning to fly, it's an amazing experience, I must say.

Posting after long time!

It look long time for me to be back on my blogger. Myself and Raks went to a nearby beach along with our family for taking a look at ospreys who were busy learning flying!!! On the way we got to shoot these little beauties. These plovers are protected at Milford by the Milford Audubon Society.

These plover family was all around the beach. There was one plover that was still guarding her nest.

Finally an image from US

Got a chance to unpack my camera and here is the first click. Still to explore the places here. I guess it'll happen after getting comfortable in the new place.

Pied Kingfisher

I've not got a chance yet to get close to this beauty. Hebbal lake does present a good opportunity to shoot them. I'm yet to shoot them in action.

Bulbul scape.

Here is another bulbul scape from Hebbal

Brain fever bird

The common hawk cuckoo is commonly called brain fever bird. Here is at glimpse of the beautiful bird. It's called the "Brain fever bird" because its is supposed very similar to "Brain-fever.. Brain -fever".. Strange, I couldn't make it though!

Ashy Prinia

Haven't got a chance to post images that I took couple of weeks back. Here are some of them from Hebbal lake.

Mood of Kabini

To me this picture represents the mood of Kabini where so many of elephants get into water & have fun during summer. The river bank, during summer, is witness to countless species of herbivores and predators and innumerable birds.