The entire series is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mayurkotlikar/tags/koel/
This picture is from the initial fighting between to male Koel birds.
This picture is one from the series of pictures I was able to take during territorial fight, which I witnessed over Saturday.
All though I am not sure who was the original resident bird, but the left one did surely loose.
When the left male Asian Koel bird was fighting, I could see the other larger male dominating slowly and cornering the relatively smaller one.
In fact the one on the left, collapsed after 20 mins. of fight, barely able to grab the branch on the way down.
It was stressed out and must have gone through lot trauma but I don’t know why exactly its beak had such color (did he made more injuries to other bird).
My knowledge about birds is very limited, so that all I can observe and conclude.
The victorious bird, did gave a few gestures of victory when it was over.
Male Koel Bird Been Cornered
Decorated
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During Diwali, when my wife was wearing henna or "temporary" tattoo, we were experimenting with a few close ups.
This is one of them.
Only after reviewing this image after many days, I realized that I missed to include the tip of fingers. And by that time, the henna was all gone.
What we were trying to accomplish is to show two deer’s kissing :)
This hand gesture, when used against a light source projecting shadow would make more send though.
The jewelry might be distracting, but mind you, all that glitters is not gold.
Ready for a quick snack?
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A very popular street side, tangy Indian snack bar.
The top yellow crispy looking flakes are flattened black gram.
Its mixed up with generous quantities of finely chopped onion, tomatoes & chilly !
It is topped with squeezing lemon over and mixed. The paper seen in the picture is the plate in which its served, talk about recycling eh?
Its named Chana Chor Garam