Bird Baths in your garden!

I just wrote a piece on how important it is for us to have a small bird bath in your gardens or on our terraces and balconies for our city birds, in the Hindu. Fresh water is becoming tough for them to find in our cities today with shrinking garden spaces. So take a look at the pics which were sent to me by Surya Prakash who 'shot' all these beautiful pictures and see what joy just a little terracotta pot can bring to you.

Barbets, Magpies, Orioles, Mynas, Koels, you can see them all and more.

Just enjoy the beauty of our varied feathered friends visiting, if you take just a little trouble to buy a container and keep it clean and filled with fresh water for the birds.

PHOTO CREDITs Surya Prakash with thanks!

Black naped Orioles are here!

Isn't the bird something to look at? I remember a long time ago my Dad had shown me the bird and I was fascinated by its colour. Plus the fact that anything so beautiful was for real!

I particularly love this picture which has caught the bird in his favourite past time - eating fruit. Here it is definitely making a meal of the luscious mango it happened to get lucky to find ripe on the tree!

My Doc son Andrew says "Grandpa showed me the bird once or twice on Convent Road as he held my hand and took me to school." Guess at that time I was not so educated on the fact that these birds are migrants from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and can be seen mostly in the Western Ghats and South India at this time. That is why we get lucky and are able to see them in the less congested parts of the city and outside.