sketches series.........7. Yellow Collared Lovebird

This is my illustration of a Yellow Collared Lovebird,

i've only used colour pencils

Oriental Honey Buzzard comes visiting yet again

Yippie !!

Few days back

once again she came outside our house !!

Warnings were sounded out to all residents

Keep off me or .......

And these two bulbuls were also watching the action with us from our balcony,

wondering whats all this fuss about ??

Why you not taking any snaps of me ??

Untill next time, bye, bye OHB

and the bulbuls ........ sorry !!

sketches series.......6.Purple Heron

The best way to liven up the backside of a book shelf is to do a drawing on it !!

Isn't it ??

That's what i did,

with an illustration of a Purple Heron !!

sketches series.......5. Racquet Tailed Drongo

This is a sketch which i made a few years back of the Racquet Tailed Drongo, after seeing this bird in Pangot, Uttaranchal.

The Oriental Honey Buzzard comes visiting again

For the last two years during these months, an Oriental Honey Buzzard comes outside our house. When this bird comes usually there are alarm calls all over from the the squirrel's & also all the resident dada's also get insecure & tend to hassle a new bird. All in all there is panic in the air when the OHB comes in.

Today morning i was in still in bed, suddenly i heard didi call out "Honey buzzard saamne baita hai," i jumped out of bed & there it was just outside our balcony. This one is a female, last year we had seen the male.

She started giving me the looks !!

When the crows were hassling her, she just opens her beak......

Then suddenly a Shikra swooped on her, look at her how she has puffed up herself & made her appear really big to ward off the Shikra. Unfortunately i could not get the Shikra in the same frame.

Then she went to another tree & again started eye balling me !!

After a good 25 mts she decided to go away

Tata, bye bye, au revoir, adios amigos.

Until next time

take care !!

At The Movies-again....

I went with few of my friends to watch wake up Sid

it was truly amazing !!!!!!!!

i loved the movie.

then we went to "city walk" a huge mall next to the theatre

and after the movie we were just roaming around the mall

we had hot dogs for lunch

and doughnuts from M.O.D (Mad over Doughnuts) for dessert...

and then returned home after a awesome day.

Listen & watch Kya karoon here

At The Movies.......

Up

I went with my mom to watch Up the movie
and really enjoyed it.
it was a nice movie and if you have an option you should watch it
watch the trailer here

Festival of lights

Happy Diwali to all.

That's my house on the top floor lit up with all diya's,

i.e a row of lamps,

since it is a festival of lights.

Cotton string wicks inserted in small clay pots filled with oil—

to signify victory of good over the evil within an individual !!!

No fire crackers for me

i hate disturbing the birds & dogs

In Landour.......... with the Mountain Hawk Eagle

During the Dushera break we had gone to Landour. I liked the place, the small streets, the house where we stayed, which was infact overlooking a valley, the wooded areas were much less, so the walks were quite restricted, also Rhesus Macaques did sometimes look very aggressive, we tried to avoid eye contact, but also had to be careful at the same time, also the weather which suddenly changes from sunny, to cloudy & rainy & vice versa.

It was challenging to identify the Raptors. They just seem to arrive so suddenly & also disappear also equally fast. Of course the high light was to see the Mountain Hawk Eagle sitting in a tree in just 10ft in front of us. We were also lucky to see a pair of Black eagles in a very playful mood

And also the flying skills of the Eurasian Sparrow Hawk was just awesome & how she took on the crows which were hassling her.

The birds we saw & were able to identify are :

Mountain Hawk Eagle

Black Eagle

Eurasian Sparrow Hawk

Himalayan Griffon

Verditer Fly Catchers

Ultra Marine Fly Catchers

Dark sided Fly Catchers

Brown fronted Wood Pecker

Brown Bull Finch

Grey Winged Black Bird

Bar Tailed Tree Creeper

Green Backed Tit

Black Lored Tit

Whiskered Yuhina

White Throated Laughing Thrush

Striated Laughing Thrush

Scarlet Minivets

An empty house comes to life

The house next to mine is C- 128 SE, ND, 17. It has been more or less an empty house.
An occupant of it has been Mimi @aka Matilda, a street dog which made it her house. Now she has five puppies. Me & my friends named them Chocolate, Mercury, Vapour, Mischief & Magic.

Now this empty house has become like a museum, with children coming morning & evening with food & milk to play & feed the puppies. I also enjoy playing with them & watch them play. When i come home in my cycle they are all there & they recognise me & come running.

But soon i'll have a problem if they start running after me to school !!

sketches series.............4. Goosander

Here is a sketch of a Goosander which i did the other day !

Sketches series................3

An Owl sitting on a fence !

A song in the making.........

We have music time in school, me & my friends were trying to pen down a song, it goes something like this..... also my guitar teacher Rahul is helping me add the chords !!

I started out that evening
With a pencil in my hand
I don't know what came over me
I just can't understand

I sat down on the couch
With not a whole lot to say
Tired out by my thoughts
I'll just call it a day

Someone knocked this into my head
If the paper is blank it just can't be read
And the paper is still blank

The pencil & the paper
There no worth for more
I just can't write this crazy thing
and i just don't know how

09/09/09

Something in today's date which looks unusual !!

Or is it ??

Infact it is the last of the same single digit dates for quite a while.
1001 years to be precise !!
Well, see you then.........

Onam........... 2009

A few friends came over for dinner.......... that's Anand & Antara. The menu was :

Tomato rice,

Avial,

Pachadi,

Sambhar,

Ellisseri,

Pulichadu

& fried Surmai (king fish)

all on Banana leaves

till next year..........