The drinking wasp

As summer set in I decided to keep some water in a bowl for the birds. While the birds have not turned up yet, I found something interesting. A wasp kept visiting the bowl. It would alight on the edge of the bowl and then creep down to the edge of the water, stay for a few seconds, then climb back to the edge and fly off. Watched this for quite a while and then took some snaps.



 

Observations at a water filled pot

Summer in the city can be hard on birds. These are photos of birds that visited pot of water in the garden in the last few weeks.
They usually came after 11 am till 5 pm. There was even a garden lizard. The common and Bank Mynas later realized that they could rest on the cooling pot for an entire afternoon,  driving other smaller birds away.