Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/01/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I meant to post my compliments this morning, but got sidetracked. Synchrony is my fav in this wonderful set. from my iPad Sonny Carter > On Jan 29, 2017, at 8:53 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> > wrote: > > Jim N, Douglas B and Lluis > Thanks for looking. > Cranes, in general, mate for life and generally seen in pairs. > Cheers > Jayanand > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 6:29 AM, lluisripollphotography < > lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Really great series Jayanand, >> >> Here I prefer the color versions, very fine eye! You can do a >> ?Double-Double? book with animals?. >> >> Cheers >> Lluis >> >> >> >> >>> El 28 gen 2017, a les 18:56, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> >> va escriure: >>> >>> I had been on a short trip to Bharatpur and its environs last week. >>> Bharatpur is home to the famed Keoladeo National Park, one of the great >>> bird sanctuaries in the world, as well as a designated World Heritage >> Site. >>> These man made wetlands (made in the 18th century, though) were the >> hunting >>> preserve of the local maharajah, like so many of India's National Parks. >>> >>> The trip turned out to be memorable for the number and quality of Sarus >>> Crane encounters we had, not only in the National Park, but in a village >> 70 >>> kms away, called Naunera, where a couple of hundred Sarus Cranes, which >> are >>> revered in this country, lived in perfect harmony on fields of wheat and >>> mustard with the human villagers. Sarus Cranes are the tallest flying >> birds >>> in the world, clocking in around 6 feet in height, and as such, are >>> extremely graceful, not only in flight, but surprisingly enough, on land >> as >>> well. >>> >>> Here then are a few photographs. The Sarus, who are monogamous and mate >> for >>> life, have a very distinctive trumpeting call, which both members of the >>> pair ritually engage in together, periodically, to affirm the bonds >> between >>> them: >>> >>> Duet: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/WIndia/ >>> Bharatpur/Bharatpur-20170121-4030.jpg.html >>> >>> Duet in B&W: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/WIndia/ >>> Bharatpur/Bharatpur-20170121-4034.jpg.html >>> >>> Finale: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/WIndia/ >>> Bharatpur/Bharatpur-20170121-4047.jpg.html >>> >>> The Call: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/WIndia/ >>> Bharatpur/Bharatpur-20170121-495.jpg.html >>> >>> When they are not feeding, they strut about, or groom constantly: >>> >>> In the Environment: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/WIndia/ >>> Bharatpur/Bharatpur-20170122-1323.jpg.html >>> >>> Grooming: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/WIndia/ >>> Bharatpur/Bharatpur-20170122-1415.jpg.html >>> >>> At Naunera Village, they loiter about in the mustard fields or wheat >> fields >>> >>> Mustard Fields: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/WIndia/ >>> Bharatpur/Bharatpur-20170123-2537.jpg.html >>> >>> Family: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/WIndia/ >>> Bharatpur/Bharatpur-20170123-2612.jpg.html >>> >>> Finally, a few photographs of their considerable grace in flight: >>> >>> Synchrony: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/WIndia/ >>> Bharatpur/Bharatpur-20170122-1515.jpg.html >>> >>> Solo: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/WIndia/ >>> Bharatpur/Bharatpur-20170123-3155.jpg.html >>> >>> Fog: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/WIndia/ >>> Bharatpur/Bharatpur-20170123-2265.jpg.html >>> >>> Grace: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/WIndia/ >>> Bharatpur/Bharatpur-20170123-2369.jpg.html >>> >>> Please see LARGE >>> >>> Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome! >>> >>> Cheers >>> Jayanand >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information