different leaves from the same tree
All these leaves are from the same tree… A picture with a friend shows the scale of the tree. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Nature Kids (@naturekids_in)
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a moon rise
The moon can be a pretty amazing sight. The idea that the lunar cycle can influence people’s behaviour dates back thousands of years, but has been largely dismissed by modern medicine. But new research suggests there may be some truth to these ancient theories. … Another possibility is that patients are responding to the Moon’s…
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village walk
A few of us walking around the outskirts of the local village. The vast expanses of green, gray or blue, or brown was refreshing. Amidst all environmental concerns, the openness in the surroundings of any village gives a sense of hope! We started with some quiet moments of mindfulness, and then started, just having an…
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tiny whirlpools in sand
We may have noticed these common holes in soft sandy patches and walked on. Few might imagine that these tiny holes are actually the engineering effort of some young insects (antlion larvae), at work catching a little hard working engineer – an ant! As ambush predators, catching prey is risky because food arrives unpredictably and,…
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finding nature
Doing a session on Contemplation of Nature with FoundNature, we were to spend some time with any object of nature in the way the facilitator Ajay Rastogi described. As a practitioner of some silence every day, it resonated with my practice 🙂 Authenticity is the common foundation it was really nice to learn from the…
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neighborhood ibis
In this era of iPhones and iPads, watching these birds in the neighborhood (off Kanakapura Road, Bengaluru) was… iBliss! Unlike other ibises in the region it is not very dependent on water and is often found in dry fields a good distance away from water. … The red-naped ibis is a large black bird with…
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open air planetarium
Recently was in a place surrounded by hills with negligible light pollution and looked up at the night sky. It was really cold… but did not matter… the view was beyond a planetarium… of the truly spectacular view. After a while tried a few 10 sec exposure pictures with the mobile camera. Then closed the…
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the fastest, stopping by
A neighbor off Kanakapura Road, Bengaluru, keenly observed an unusual looking bird and shared it with others. Who would’ve guessed what it was by the photo taken by a typical mobile camera of the bird which was quite far away. Photographer and naturalist Sushma visited the place and shared her picture of this magnificent bird….
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evening walk
After a long time, had gone out really early morning just after sunrise, and just walked briskly for a few kms without any camera. This evening went with some others on the same route at sunset. This crow took off shortly after this pic into the golden light. Cormorants flying around after the sunset before…
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a baby bat
Seems to be wondering… 😉 umm… what does this say…? echo location isn’t much help in reading… is this thing bat-safe? ok let me try it anyway… Came across this tiny baby bat almost motionless but slowly moving around. Had it fallen out of the tree? Was it abandoned? A naturalist friend Sheema shared… [21/11/2021]…