Akshay’s Duck Friends

Akshay found duck friends in Horb, Germany, his hometown.

Amritapuri, India Wildlife #2c

Two more monkey sightings. It is the same monkey that was the star of previous posts. The first video was taken by Chaitanya. The monkey is eating a carrot.

The second was filmed by Pranesh. The monkey is rummaging through a compost bin near the dishwashing section by the cafe.

Amritapuri, India Flowers #5

Amritapuri, India Wildlife # 3

Vedavati said: Here is the tree on a floor in the building where I live. At night, it’s the crow’s bedroom. But by day, these other birds rule the roost. Look how many there are! (Enlarge the photo if you need to. )

And here are close ups of one stretching it’s wings.

Does anyone know what kind of bird this is? If you do, please let us know by writing the name in the comment section.

Amritapuri, India Wildlife- #2b

This is the same monkey that was in yesterday’s post. This time it was taken after he had stolen eggs from the Western café.

Amritapuri, India Wildlife #2

Vedavati said: Sorry, it’s real pixelly, it was so dark back into this tree. The crows were creating quite the ruckus at the sight of this monkey. Actually the crows chased the monkey into the recesses of the tree. Never a dull moment on the Tumban (dog) walks!

Amritapuri, India Wildlife #1

This was Vedavati’s first picture with the new camera.

Vedavati said: This past week the eagles (briminy kites) have been circling nearby. Quite the treat!

Enlarge the photo above and see how many are flying around. Amazing! Vedavati and I both counted 13. How many do you see?

2 more are joining in.

Amritapuri, India Flowers #4

Vedavati is loving her new Samsung M10 phone camera. She used her macro lens when she took this photo. She was surprised when it looked like the flower was floating in the air.

Watching the Creek from My Window- Part 6

The pattern I described in earlier posts has continued. It rains hard and the water in the creek area rises and has a current and then if there is no rain for a couple hours, the water disappears and the ground becomes muddy.

We have never had enough rain for the creek to look like a lake the way it did the first time I wrote about it. Those storms were unusual enough to have severe weather warnings.

Several days last week, it rained for so many hours that there were puddles of water on the ground outside of the window of my apartment.

When I looked at the creek, I saw that once again it had water that had a current.

Twice that day when I looked at the creek from my window, I saw that there were two adult ducks swimming in it. Neither time did I have my phone camera handy.

The next day it did not rain. Once again, the area where the creek had been was just muddy ground.