An Evening at Madh Island

Wow!! I'm good. I've actually managed to keep this blog a secret for over a month. So now I've decide to change the title. Feathered Friends is too birdy birdy and kind of prevents me from writing about or putting up pictures of anything else. So while I won't keep bird pics out entirely I will try to get some variety in. Here are some pictures I took at Madh Island yesterday.  The old man in the picture was not a fisherman. He'd come over from Dombivli and was relaxing at the beach after meeting someone.  Now we're getting set to leave for Kerala and Goa. Will blog out for a while. Hopefully I'll have a lot of pictures when we get back!

 

Been a Long Time

I've been putting in more effort into the other blog on wordpress and so neglected this. Let's see which one turns out better. Here are some more pics from Mumbai

Brown Boobies (The Flying Kind)

These graceful birds decided to hitch a ride on my ship in the eastern Pacific Ocean approaching Balboa in Panama. Despite the silly name and facial expressions the birds are truly magnificent fishing birds. As perchers they are not so welcome. Just ask my Chief Mate whose decks were 'painted' with the birds poop! One bird was particularly fearless and sat posing for me while I approached to within about 2 mtrs

More of the Same

Grrrrr... still trying to get used to this blog stuff. These birds were seen early morning at Sewri Mudflats in Mumbai. The tide was almost in so the waders were fairly close to the shore. 

Lesser Flamingoes