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I really enjoy going to India - the birding is great,the people (not that I’ve met all of them of course) are friendly and have a great enthusiasm for life, and travelling inside the country is always - how can I put this, er, ‘interesting’. Perhaps I’m getting more relaxed as I slide slowly into [...]

I’m just back into the hotel after an excellent morning’s birding in Bangalore’s Nandi Hills with the extremely likeable and very knowledgeable Mike Prince (he of Bubo Listing). I’ll get a post online soon (I’m in rather desperate need of some sleep first), but highlights included the regionally-endemic Yellow-throated Bulbul, Indian Scimitar-babbler, Grey Junglefowl, a [...]

White-cheeked Barbet Megalaima viridis
Bangalore, western India. 18 November 2007
 
A fairly small barbet, with a typically loud and insistent call (”tocc-tocc-tocc” in this case), this is a western Indian endemic. I photographed these two birds in Lalbag Park, Bangalore where they were easy to find in any area with large trees.
 

 
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All photographs copyright Charlie Moores

If you’d flown to Bangalore*, southern India, literally not slept all night, and then gone straight out to Lalbagh Botanical Gardens on what turned out to be a beautifully warm but very crowded Sunday morning, I’d understand that you’d probably want to see as many birds as possible before you fell asleep in the nearest [...]