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• Black Drongo
• Indian Pond Heron
• Black-rumped Flameback
• Common Tailorbird
• Hooded Crow
• Rufous Treepie
• White-throated Kingfisher
• Pale-billed Flowerpecker
• Black-tailed Godwit
• Black-winged Stilt
• Glossy Ibis
• Indian Cormorant
• Indian Peafowl
• White-cheeked Barbet
• Pale-billed Flowerpecker
• Greater Coucal
• Rufous Treepie
• Asian Koel
• Mascarene Martin
• Indian Peafowl
• Pale-billed Flower Pecker
• Common Tailorbird
• Laughing Dove
• Little Cormorant
• Eurasian Hoopoe
• Stellar’s Jay
• Arabian Babbler
• Asian Koel
• Common Myna
• Purple-rumped Sunbird
• Black-tailed Godwit
• Rufous Treepie
• Little Cormorant
• Oriental White-eye
• Asian Koel
• Great Egret
• Grey Heron
• Jungle Babbler
• Great Egret
• Purple Sunbird
• White-throated Kingfisher
• Indian Pond Heron
• Yellow-footed Green Pigeon
• White-eared Bulbul
• Common Moorhen
• Bronze-winged Jacana
• Little Grebe
• Indian Roller
• Eurasian Hoopoe
• Ashy Woodswallow
• Black Drongo
• White-throated Kingfisher
• Indian Pond Heron
• Little Cormorant
• Grey Heron
• Black-tailed Godwit
• Rufous Treepie
• Red-vented Bulbul
• Openbill Stork
• Camouflaged
• Ploceus cucullatus
• Visitor
• Getting closer
• Feasting
• Catch of the day
• One among the leaves
• Thaka dhimi tha
• Looking for lunch
• White-crowned Sparrow
• American Robin
• Still here
• Great Stone-curlew
• Up in the sky
• Looking up
• Success
• Snowy Egret
• Up and away
• In search of water
• The bird spy
• Putting the best foot forward
• Forster’s Tern
• Branch manager
• Mascarene Martin
• Bird list for August
• Zebra Dove
• Mauritius Grey White-eye
• The foraging couple
• Estrilda astrild
• Displeased
• Chestnut-backed Chickadee
• Patience
• The songbird
• Bird on the rooftop
• Bird List for June
• The lone swimmer
• Dark-eyed Junco
• Action star
• Down to earth
• A treepie story
• Bird list for May
• Contemplation
• “You?”
• The approaching parent
• Lost in thought
• Visitor at the gate
• Lone forager
• The black beauty
• The waiting
• Bird list (visit to Kalamassery)
• Greater Racket-tailed Drongo
• Bird list for April
• Hard at work
• The solo player
• The return of the songster
• The interrupted song
• Sparrows
• One flew to the papaya tree
• The return
• Black-rumped Goldenback
• Drinking deep
• First time visitor
• Greater Coucal
• Spotlit bird
• Scanning the neighborhood
• Open and shut
• The fish thief
• Standing out
• Black and white
• Breakfast time
• Head held high
• Between the lines
• Branch-‘ed’
• Black Drongo
• Flight
• The papaya seeker
• Upside down
• Loten’s Sunbird
• Common Tailorbird
• Red-whiskered Bulbul
• In black and white
• Baby’s day out
• Little Egret
• Grey Francolin
• The songster
• Rain-soaked
• In a sea of green
• The dragonfly-catcher
• Morning flight
• What’s that?
• You again?
• Visitor on the wall
• This way and that
• Stealing away
• Lakeside vigil
• Flight
• The look-out
• Not on my watch
• Walking the wall
• The wait
• The backward glance
• Lord of the Storks
• Asian Koel
• Asian Koel
• Eurasian Hoopoe
• Indian Silverbill
• Red-vented Bulbul
• Common Moorhen
• Stepping up
• The solitary forager
• Walk among the reeds
• Outgoing gulls
• The aspiring gymnast
• Coucal photoshoot
• Do you see me?
• Shore walk
• Incoming gulls
• Little Grebe
• Dicrurus leucophaeus
• Egyptian Vulture
• Red-wattled Lapwing
• The flight
• Three in a row
• White Wagtail
• Indian Roller
• Running away
• Chroicocephalus ridibundus
• Great Cormorants
• Spilopelia senegalensis
• Patience
• Pycnonotus leucotis
• The landing
• Bhagoooooo!
• In a hurry
• Waiting
• The cozy foursome
• Hey you!
• The sprint
• On the tamarind tree
• Pairs
• Master of all he surveys
• Merops orientalis
• Beating the heat
• Leptocoma zeylonica
• On the coconut tree
• Orthotomus sutorius
• Cecropis daurica
• Ardeola grayii
• Black and White
• Golden
• Disapproving
• Cautious
• Angry
• Rosy Starlings
• Mouthful
• Leptocoma zeylonica
• Is she home?
• Walker
• Bird-view of 2015
• Taking off
• Pale-billed Flowerpecker
• Psittacula krameri
• The vigil
• You again?!
• Flying home
• Baby’s day out
• The pair
• Here and gone
• The newcomer
• Another rockstar
• Treepie eye watcheth
• Loten’s Sunbirds
• On the treetop
• Foraging
• The introvert
• Copsychus saularis
• Listening
• Tails up
• The better side
• Flight
• The nest
• Moods
• What’s that sound?
• The papaya thief #2
• The papaya thief #1
• Performers
• Aspiring branch-manager
• Flying off in a huff
• The waiting congregation
• The pose
• The sit-in
• Blue-eyed
• Alone
• Streaked, striped and spotted
• The bird who wanted to play basketball
• Nose in the air
• Terpsiphone paradisi
• Keeping a low profile
• Opposites
• Hop, skip, jump
• Megalaima viridis
• No show
• On the run
• The new visitor
• Indian Cormorant
• That intervening space
• One, two, cha-cha-cha
• A wedge
• Bird on the wall
• Gimme more!
• That splash of blue
• Vanellus indicus
• Leptocoma zeylonica
• Tchah!
• Anything for me?
• The lift-off
• Odd one out
• Great Stone Plover
• First look – Ranganathittu
• Seeing off
• Black-hooded oriole
• Inquisitive
• You again!
• Whiskered Tern
• White-throated Kingfisher
• White-rumped Munia
• Leptocoma minima
• Prinia socialis
• Egretta garzetta
• Pod atop a tree
• Breakfasting bird
• Unity in diversity
• Common Hawk-Cuckoo
• That backward glance
• Leptocoma minima
• Motacilla maderaspatensis
• Orthotomus sutorius
• Feeding time
• The couple
• Common Kestrel
• A trifle ruffled
• The detective
• That top of the world feeling
• Flying away
• Hidden
• Centropus sinensis
• Displeased
• Grooming
• Morning caller
• Up and down
• I am the tallest of them all
• Red-eyed
• Visitors
• Cinnyris lotenius
• Pycnonotus jocosus
• Mouthful
• Flight
• Feeding companions
• Caught
• Handsome dude
• Bird on leaf
• Looking downwards
• Cable walk
• Mom and me
• Wing stretches
• Flight in black and white
• Not speaking
• Issatso?
• High and low
• Disheveled
• Alone
• Baya Weaver
• Wing show
• The observer
• Crossing hurdles
• Opposites
• In a row
• Wall walk
• Behind the leaf curtain
• Window-hanger
• Suryanamaskar
• Bring it on, I say!
• In search
• The pair
• On top of the curve
• Checking connections
• Excluded
• Beach walk
• Puffed up
• The splash
• When bird met dog
• Feeding time
• The rock star
• The fearless dude
• The observer on the coconut tree
• The open and shut case
• Morning walk
• The brief stop
• Cooling off
• Family outing
• Visitor
• Hello! Anyone home?
• Superbird to the rescue
• The performer and the audience
• Waiting and watching
• Open your mouth
• The wait
• The myna that came a-calling
• Foraging
• Shadowed
• Two plus one
• The descent
• iAlight
• Stillness
• Flying off the frame
• One wet bird
• The beach birds
• Three on a coconut tree
• Singing
• Scrutiny
• You lead, I follow
• Bird’s eye view
• Flight
• Lonelier at the top
• After the rains
• The descent
• Dabbling
• Building sandcastles
• Here and gone
• The fishing expedition
• Synchronized
• The guard
• The view
• The bird on the wall
• That backward glance
• Head over heels
• Another branch manager
• Listening
• Adeste fideles
• Puffed up
• Mango, anyone?
• One step at a time
• The bird who did not want to be photographed
• Is it safe?
• Flower-hanger
• Up and away
• Displeased
• Black and white
• Rivalry
• House-hunting Mynas
• The three parents
• Blue
• Where did she go?
• The perfect landing
• Racing the waves
• Moods
• Waiting by the wayside
• “Kink-a-joo”
• On its way
• Observer
• Flight
• Just another leaf
• Angry bird on the wall
• The pair
• Cow-ride
• Different
• Merops orientalis
• Thoughtful
• Lonchura striata
• The bird who wanted to play basketball
• Attention!
• Haliastur indus
• Looking up
• Camouflaged
• In a hurry
• Getting feet wet
• Reaching down
• Extremely curious
• Giving the eye
• Our senior-most electrician
• Says who?
• Rising
• For a better look
• Lonchura punctulata
• Did he do it?
• Feasting
• My shadow and I
• Did you get that?
• The lonely wait
• Caught
• The banana-guard
• Mynas
• That smug look
• The watch
• Walking the cow home
• Bird in a rice field
• Behind the leaf curtain
• Fly, fly, like a bird in the sky
• On top of the world
• Back is beautiful
• Reluctant poser
• No, I won’t
• The triumvirate
• American Coot
• Yippeeeee
• Tail up
• Megalaima viridis
• Hidden
• The Coucal walk
• Gotcha
• Merops orientalis
• The third one
• The keen eye
• Cinnyris lotenius
• Sharing secrets
• Dinopium benghalense
• 2014 in review
• Dendrocitta vagabunda
• Curious
• Who clicks yonder?
• Listening
• Centropus sinensis
• Tile-walk
• Ashamed
• A new vistor
• In the rain
• Papaya hog
• Pondering
• Disagreement
• Shadowed
• Motionless
• A pretty picture
• Reproachful
• Pillared
• The dropped catch
• Sunning
• Camera-shy
• The pair
• Here I come
• Left out
• Wary
• On a nectar seek mission
• Sitting pretty #2
• Really?
• Wing-cleaning #2
• Vigil
• The loner
• The shy ones
• Eavesdropping
• Red-vented too
• After the dip
• The red vent
• Solo sand-bathing
• After the splash
• Wing-show
• Green Bee-eater
• Jungle Owlet
• Tern
• Pale-billed Flowerpecker
• Taking off
• Dark-eyed Junco
• In the evening light
• Not behind my back
• Annoyed
• Looking for the right spot
• How do I look?
• Sand-bathing
• Please…..?
• The flying parakeets
• The banana thief
• In full gear
• A single vision
• The ‘branch’ manager
• The diligent worker
• Morning walk
• Ready for the show
• Balancing act
• “I no share!”
• In flight
• Two on a tree
• “Everything looks good here, boss!”
• Is it safe?
• Amazed
• The take off
• Is that her?
• Patience
• Will this do?
• Making the perfect ‘C’
• Where is my gal?
• The games they play
• The morning meet
• Do not disturb
• The bandit on the cable
• Honey, I am home!
• The tall and short of it
• Sitting pretty
• Grumpy
• Hellooooo!
• Who dares disturb?
• Checking the lines
• Against the blue sky
• Performing for his lady
• Profile of the national bird
• Listless
• Back to back
• Ready to party
• What?
• Who goes there?
• Thoughtful
• Reaching out
• Posing
• Nesting
• Transfixed
• Looking back
• Spotted
• The cute bandit
• Watching
• Salaam
• Who’s the boss?
• The proverbial early bird
• The patient wait
• Caught
• Taking off 2
• Pretty picture
• Parent and kids
• Displeased
• Who dares?
• Family outing
• On a bed of ixora
• Wary
• The opposites
• Rooftop observer
• Listening
• Beautiful black
• “Halt! Who goes there?”
• Showing off
• (S)potted
• Flower landing
• Babydoll
• In style
• We three
• Wing-cleaning
• You called me?
• Hidden
• Baby’s day out
• Tumne pukara aur hum chale aaye
• Musing on the Moringa
• After the rains
• A perfect cable-landing
• The cable-resident
• Foraging Munias
• Companions
• Mid-flight
• Pensive
• Synchronized
• Huddled
• Sitting for a portrait
• Curious
• Cable hopping
• Taking wings to the sky
• The one that got away
• The littlest technician
• Bird in black
• Something fishy
• Sitting in the rain
• The model
• Rooftop singing
• Bird on vine
• Cow-riders
• With wings outspread
• Play-time
• On the guava tree
• A bird’s eye view
• Junglee
• Snack time
• Pursuit
• That look of surprise
• Perch landing
• Odd ones out
• Island-ed
• Golden winged
• Leap of faith
• Gotcha!
• Left-out
• The continuing watch
• Rain-drenched
• The acrobat
• On the wall
• You don’t say!
• The descent
• Olathumbathu Oonjaladum Olenjali
• On the Tamarind tree
• Poised
• Lost in thoughts
• Whirrrrrr
• In the morning sun
• Patience
• Leaf landing
• Alone
• How do I look?
• Sweet jump
• Looking back
• Follow me
• Mating Munias
• Unconcerned
• Atop the coconut tree
• Up and down
• Suspended
• The look-outs
• The cutie
• Taking off
• Open-mouthed
• Me, Babbler?
• Scratching the itch
• The wait
• Three is company
• On her flowerbed
• The left look and right look
• The songster
• Love, uncensored
• Click me if you can