Bold tiger of Rukhad zone from Pench national park.

Flying like an angel

Lesser whitethroat Curruca curruca The warblers had begun to arrive Lesser whitethroat is a compact little warbler and one of our most skulking and elusive winter visitors from Europe to the southern parts of Karnataka Like most warblers it is insectivorous but rarely also eats berries Mysore Karnataka India

canon EOS 550D with 100mm lens

A bold tiger from Tadoba in summers

Red-whiskered Bulbul in action

The Indian cormorant or Indian shag is a member of the cormorant family. It is found mainly along the inland waters of the Indian Subcontinent but extending west to Sind and east to Thailand and Cambodia. It is a gregarious species that can be easily distinguished from the similar sized little cormorant by its blue eye, small head with a sloping forehead and a long narrow bill ending in a hooked tip. This medium-sized bronze brown cormorant is scalloped in black on the upper plumage, lacks a crest and has a small and slightly peaked head with a long narrow bill that ends in a hooked tip. The eye is blue and bare yellow facial skin during the non-breeding season. Breeding birds have a short white ear tuft. In some plumages it has a white throat but the white is restricted below the gape unlike in the much larger great cormorant. Sexes are similar, but non-breeding adults and juveniles are browner.

An eye in the sky

few juveniles busy having lunch cracking snails