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Image Break-down: Scops Owl Through A Keyhole

Aditya Sridhar — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 11:32:21 +0000

The Indian Scops Owl is one of my favourite bird species of all time. Mysterious, elusive, and perfectly camouflaged, these pocket predators are always high up on my list of ...

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Image Break-down: Birds As Far As The Eye Can See…

Aditya Sridhar — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 13:27:18 +0000

I genuinely believe observing and photographing this particular colony of Painted Storks forms a core part of the definitive Bharatpur experience. It continues to baffle me how a location can feel ...

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Image Break-down: Painted Storks Silhouette

Aditya Sridhar — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 12:02:52 +0000

I shot this image of a colony of Painted Storks on the first morning of my trip to Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur in early November, 2024. Being my fourth trip ...

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2022 – A Year in Review

Aditya Sridhar — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 11:45:53 +0000

Whew! The past year was a whirlwind. Time flies when you’re having fun, I suppose. As 2022 draws to a close, though, I figured this was a great opportunity to ...

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‘Fog Upon The Fen’ – Little Cormorants

Aditya Sridhar — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 17:35:20 +0000

“Little Cormorants – Flock on a snag”, is what I’d pencilled down in my diary while doing my due diligence on Bharatpur. This is the shot I’d envisioned of this ...

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‘Between Dusk and Dawn’ – Indian Scops Owl

Aditya Sridhar — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 09:20:45 +0000

I was the first person to enter the sanctuary on this cold, foggy morning. It was my last day in Bharatpur and there was one species I desperately wanted to ...

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‘Sentinel’ – Nilgai

Aditya Sridhar — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 14:05:57 +0000

While Bharatpur is well-known for its accessibility to wildlife, especially along the park’s main roadway, I find that very little is said about some of its smaller, untraveled trails. They ...

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‘Friend or Foe’ – White-breasted Waterhen

Aditya Sridhar — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 19:07:00 +0000

This is yet another shot I’d envisioned long before my trip to Bharatpur came to fruition. Besides the park’s spectacular Painted Storks and majestic raptors, there were quite a few ...

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‘A Mist Opportunity’ – Oriental Darter

Aditya Sridhar — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 16:42:27 +0000

When I was putting together my cheat-sheet of ideas and compositions before my trip to Bharatpur, there was one species that left me scratching my head on more than one ...

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‘The Trees Have Eyes’ – Indian Scops Owl

Aditya Sridhar — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 03:44:06 +0000

Scops Owls were high on my list of targets during my trip to Bharatpur, so I was thrilled when my Rickshaw driver led me to a known roost site for ...

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