Misty morning

Mist at 7 a.m. unusual for this time of the year.

And later in the morning, a mongoose sunning itself. ( Was in the car, so could only get a phonepic)

Beautiful little vignette

I hear a tiny squeek outside my window.  I look out and see a teeny little squirrel run up the coconut tree right outside.  He/she is soon met by Mama squirrel who gives it a little kiss and off the two go. :-)

An evening walk

I walk most evenings with my Lab.  But I love it most when I can get to walk just as dusk is falling (if the weather is fine). 
Early in the evening, just as the sun is setting, a birds fly to their nests.  A few are out trying to catch early evening insects.  But as the light slowly fades, the birds disappear and the bats come out.  These early evening bats are tiny, with wingspans appearing to be not more than a few inches.  With the dusk deepening, come even larger bats, the average size ones. Finally, when all the light has faded out and the sky is darkening, come the huge  fruit bats.  As I watch them wheeling overhead, they remind me of the Batman silhouette :-)  Their appearance heralds the beginning of night.  Soon there are occasional owl hoots to be heard and I head back home.

Post monsoon evening

It' s been a really long time since I have been able to take a walk after dark.  I managed this evening and it is was so beautiful outside that it was a balm.  There was pleasant breeze rustling the leaves and making my skin feel cool, the stars were out and I saw Scorpio and Sagittarius--in fact the sky was full of stars.  There was an occasional fly by of the huge fruit bats and now I can hear a chorus of crickets and frogs.

Monsoon weather

I was longing to try see the Perseid showers, but, though the sky was fairly clear on the 11th evening, it was cloudy all of 12th and 13th early morning.
Friday(the 13th), on my evening walk with Elsa, the sky was so beautifully clear, pale blue, with a few, high, stripes of cirrus and a sliver of moon and I thought the monsoon is really almost over.  14th evening it rained.  !5th morning was a lovely morning--breezy, pleasant and sunny.  Went to church and before service was over, it was pouring, said rain not stopping till sometime this afternoon!
The vagaries of end of monsoon weather!

I love how the birds come out within minutes of a lull in the monsoon rains!  It's as though they wait a minute for their feathers to dry just a bit and out they are singing away.  And on a rainy day, they seem to go berserk during the short gaps between the rains, more than on a day it's not raining continuously.

A video

Ok, I managed to convert the bird calls I'd recorded on my phone into mp3 and used Picasa to make a video. The various bird shots are taken either with my small Sony DSC-W110 or my old Motorola phone..