Local Birds
Bird watching, just a one day venture with the local kids. Just something that started unplanned, in my attempt to get a shot of some absolutely loud birds that wake me up at 4am (with a “snooze feature” – they start again around 5am), without fail, every day, year in year out.
Here they are, some of the birds (and other winged creatures) of the neighbourhood, in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India.
These two are an odd pair that sit on the papaya tree right outside my window (I'm on the second floor, so it's level with my window). They return here without fail for the night, for the past two years that I've come to observe them. They're absolutely *loud*! They start almost right on the hour, every hour, between 2am - 6am, for about 5 minutes duration.
The local kids tell me this is a kuyal.
But then they also tell me this is also a kuyal...
Don't know what this is, frequents the mango trees, has a pleasant and far-reaching sound.
Indian mynah's. Quite raucous, have quiet a range of variety in their vocals.
Indian mynah.
Woodpecker. More than few times we've caught it loudly hammering away in the early morning on the windshield of our car.
Some sort of hummingbird. Very tiny, fast, hardly stays still.
Peacock. Lots of them roam the grounds in the early morning hours.
Peacock.
The common Indian green parrot.
They were sitting on this tree that bared these strange seeds/fruits, looked and felt like small fuzzy tennis balls.
We went hunting for parrot nests.
Closeup of parrot nests.
Tailorbird.
One of the local kids finding and showing me a tailorbird's nest.
Leaf edges stitched together like a tailor.
We spooked a bunch of bats sleeping on a banyon tree.
Bat.