mom and kid, outside my window just now. mom calmly having breakfast and kid squawking for attention.

since yesterday morning, a family of alexandrian parakeets [one adult male (have a pink band on the nape), one young one and the rest females] have been feasting on the seeds of a tree outside my window. quite a treat for both them and me! (alexandrian is a larger parakeet than the more commonly seen rose ringed parakeet and it has a red patch on its shoulder)

 my recent trip to the corbett area was a birders' delight. 

i saw (and photographed a few) over 50 different types, many from the confines of the jungle safari jeep and at a distance. a naturalist with very keen spotting skills accompanied us. 

one part of the trip was the standard jungle safari, and the other was in a remote buffer jungle area. 

if you fancy doing a 30 to 40-minute walk across an army built suspended bridge and on a narrow uphill dirt path followed by a 10-minute jeep ride on a slightly wider dirt road to end it with a pulley raft across a narrow but deep stretch of river to reach another birders haven with no phone signal, this eco lodge is the place for you. 

visiting hikers have seen tigers crossing the river at 300 to 400 metres, maybe less (i have watched the video).