Below snaps from BMCC college.
Sunday
Flowers - BMCC, Pune
This is from a gorgeous Kanchan tree at Agharkar institute near Symbiosis Circle.
Below snaps from BMCC college.
Below snaps from BMCC college.
Psittacula Krameri in action
Parakeets are my all time favorite. One can sit for hours together, captivated by their gorgeous colors and movements. Parakeets display their gregarious nature when in groups - aligning with some, gossiping, grumbling, sulking, and squabbling!
Finicky eaters, it’s a delight to watch this bird daintily nibble at a guava, crack open a seed pod, or walk along a slender branch.
Magpie Robins
The magpie robin is another common resident of Pune city. Its black plumage with a flash of white is as absorbing as its mellifluous song, usually sung from a high vantage point. The female can be differentiated by the duller black color at the throat. The female in this photo has rust colored under-feathers. Breeding plumage? Perhaps.
This bird is adept is adept at mimicry of other birdcalls and sounds.
Its contact call is probably the low ‘seeek’ sound it makes.
This bird is adept is adept at mimicry of other birdcalls and sounds.
Its contact call is probably the low ‘seeek’ sound it makes.
parakeets and mynas
Every year around June - July, a drama unfolds near my home.
The characters in this drama:
Common Myna – somewhat smaller in size than the parakeet. Equally raucous and a chatterbox.
Rose Ringed Parakeet – A noisy raucous bird often found in cities of India. Lives in gregarious flocks. Loves the eating fruits of sonchafa (michelia champaka) tree.
The coveted nesting place – a small pipe hole in a building wall. A piece of prime property in the avian kingdom!
Every year without fail the mynas use this hole for nesting. Every year around June, I see atleast one Myna chick - unsure of itself, trying to take its first wing flaps. The adult Mynas anxiously sit nearby, alternately trying to coax it and push it to fly.
Around the same time, the parakeets arrive. They are fond of the fleshy champaka (sonchafa) fruits which are a beautiful red from inside. The parakeets have also spotted this hole as suitable for nesting.
For a few days there is a fight between the mynas and the parakeets over the pipe hole. The parakeets eventually manage to drive away the mynas and take control of the nesting place.
Reminds me of a certain old Hindi film song :-)
The characters in this drama:
Common Myna – somewhat smaller in size than the parakeet. Equally raucous and a chatterbox.
Rose Ringed Parakeet – A noisy raucous bird often found in cities of India. Lives in gregarious flocks. Loves the eating fruits of sonchafa (michelia champaka) tree.
The coveted nesting place – a small pipe hole in a building wall. A piece of prime property in the avian kingdom!
Every year without fail the mynas use this hole for nesting. Every year around June, I see atleast one Myna chick - unsure of itself, trying to take its first wing flaps. The adult Mynas anxiously sit nearby, alternately trying to coax it and push it to fly.
Around the same time, the parakeets arrive. They are fond of the fleshy champaka (sonchafa) fruits which are a beautiful red from inside. The parakeets have also spotted this hole as suitable for nesting.
For a few days there is a fight between the mynas and the parakeets over the pipe hole. The parakeets eventually manage to drive away the mynas and take control of the nesting place.
Reminds me of a certain old Hindi film song :-)
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