Madan Mohan Das

Vagabond

[India Aesthetica @IndiaAesthetica]

Carpets of flowers at the Kaas Plateau in Satara, Maharashtra 🪷🌸🌊🇮🇳

[Go Kerala @Gokerala_]

A beautiful temple of kerala.

[✶ @echoesofworld]

New York City

[Lea 🌿🌷🕊️ @tiggylea]

Scottish Highlands in the mist 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[🫧 @lunecrumbss]

the art of looking up and noticing

[🫧 @lunecrumbss]

stained glass reflections

[ST @challengerST]

Lmao ok fine I’ll buy it

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

minimal clocks

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

No one painted water like the Norwegian impressionist Frits Thaulow

[Seen on the Internet @FunnySight]

Don't worry, it's all plant based 😂

[Muse @xmuse_]

It's crazy how much technique one needs to have to be able to simplify something this way.

Portrait of Mrs. Asher B. Wertheimer, 1898

[Paco Mariño @Laboreiro]

Dicen que nadie pintó el agua como Anders Zorn.
Y es que es una barbaridad.

[𝑙𝑦𝑟𝑎 @naturehealyou]

like a painting that came to life

[Ujjwall Deepak @ujjwalldeepak]

क्या आपने कभी उड़ती हुई गिलहरी देखी है ?

*Flying Squirrel*

छत्तीसगढ़ के उदन्ति सीतानगर टाइगर रिज़र्व (बम्हनी झोला ग्राम) के वन रक्षक टी के देवांगन द्वारा अपने कमेरे से लिया गया ये शॉट।

[Project_Itihasa @itihasa24]

Himalayan Monal, state bird of Uttarakhand, India and the national bird of Nepal.

Found around 2,000-4,500 m in Himalayan forests .

[Supriya Sahu IAS @supriyasahuias]

Listen to that deep, guttural call. The male Great Hornbill is announcing his presence, and the ancient rhythm of the forest is stirring once again.

Over the next few weeks, the skies above Tamil Nadu’s Anamalai Hills will belong to these magnificent birds. September and October bring their spectacular pre-breeding congregations. Drawn to fruiting fig trees and traditional roosts, Great Hornbills gather, call, court and sail across the valleys, their powerful wingbeats sounding like a helicopter.

Hornbills are often associated with Nagaland and the forests of Northeast India. Yet far away in the southern Western Ghats, the Anamalais form one of India’s most important hornbill landscapes. All four hornbill species of southern India occur here: the Great Hornbill, Malabar Pied Hornbill, Malabar Grey Hornbill and Indian Grey Hornbill. Published research describes the Anamalais as a stronghold with some of the highest Great Hornbill numbers recorded in the Western Ghats.

This is only the beginning of an extraordinary natural drama. As courtship progresses, pairs will revisit ancient nesting trees. Around January, the female will enter a natural cavity high in a great forest tree and seal herself inside, leaving only a narrow slit. For nearly four months, the male will carry fruit to her and later to their chick. Research in the Anamalais has recorded nesting cycles lasting between 114 and 130 days. Some nest trees have been used for decades.

As hornbills feast on forest fruit, they also rebuild the rainforest, carrying large seeds across valleys and dispersing them far from the parent trees.

Video by @sriram_p_murali
#GreatHornbill #AnamalaiHills #WesternGhats #WildTamilNadu #HornbillConservation