This is the local month of Baishak and we have these quick and violent Nor-westers [called KalBaishaki in Bangla]. They start up without a warning, strong winds reaching a hundred Kmph easily, bending the palm trees like they will snap in two, rain that comes in almost horizontally, thunder and lightning, the works! And suddenly, [...]
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Flameback comes back
Posted in Bangladesh, Bird, Dhaka, Flameback, nature on Sep 22nd, 2008
A chance meeting when this Flameback revisited after a long time…. there are a bunch of them who were regular visitors but I’ve not spotted them in a while though I hear them sometimes. Today while waiting for “my” Sunbird to come for his daily portrait session, I heard this Flameback tapping the wood of [...]
Wet Flameback after a storm
Posted in Bangladesh, Bird, Dhaka, Flameback, forest, nature, storm on Mar 24th, 2007
  Found this Black-rumped Flameback [Dinopium benghalense] on the tree outside our window, preening and drying its feathers after being soaked in last nights storm…