Tag: india
23/02/20. Nek Chand Rock Garden, Chandigarh.
In the ’50s Nek Chand started to build a secret rock garden near Sukhna Lake; he collected rubbish (ceramic – often from old sinks and toilets, electrical ceramics as well as wires and insulators) from the city and used it to fashion amazing creatures in the landscape. It is one of the most joyful places ...
01/03/20. Brown Headed Barbets in Leisure Valley, Chandigarh.
Chandigarh was designed by Le Corbusier in the early 1950s. It is a beautiful city, filled with trees and parkland and has glorious views of the Shivalik Hills, a mountain range in the foothills of the Himalayas. Chandigarh is also a thriving and very busy place, and it is impossible to escape the sounds ...
01/03/20. Sukhna Lake at sunrise.
Sukhna lake in Chandigarh is a very popular place for walkers and joggers, but it is also a nature reserve. In the eastern, more secluded part of the lake is where you will find many local and winter visitors. I went this morning just after sunrise and recorded a few minutes of their calling ...
30/3/17. Dawn chorus in the jungle near Dehradun, Uttarakhand
5:40-6:20 at the Indian Institute of Petroleum campus in Dehradun. A beautiful place, the site of a former tea plantation, now a centre of research into conventional and renewable energy. The grounds themselves are quite wild, and it sits adjacent to a nature reserve in the Ramgarh range, so the birds, monkeys, mongoose, jaguars, deer ...
