Two evenings ago there was a strong breeze which began blowing off the whirly-bird seeds from the Mahogany pods just around sunset… by today morning most the seeds are gone and new leaves are out!
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Woken by the insistent cooing of this Dove on the Mahogany tree. Better than the shrill sound of an alarm clock! Spotted Dove [Streptopelia chinensis]
The “official” first day of spring was the 13th Feb. Yesterday the first new leaves began appearing on the Mahogany trees. In a few days, the orange and yellows of these new sprouts will give way to green… yep it IS spring now!
Leaf-burst
Posted in Bangladesh, Bulbul, Dhaka, Mahogany, nature, spring on Feb 27th, 2009
Once again The Mahogany trees burst into new leaf… bit earlier than that last year though. And the birds are all back…. A Red-vented Bulbul [Pixel-peepers: read this]
Spring again
Posted in Bangladesh, Dhaka, Mahogany, nature, spring on Feb 21st, 2009
A week into Spring [9th day actually...it is the 9th of "Falgun" here]… and the Mahogany pods are beginning burst and shed their whirly-bird seeds… … and the birds are having a ball
A pair of Bulbuls [Red-Vented. Pycnonotus cafer bengalensis] had made a nest in a Ficus shrub, 3 chicks hatched just over a week ago and today for the first time they were hopping on the branches of the big Mahogany tree and in a short while had learned to fly! The mother had brought something [...]