A home away from home

It’s one thing to read about birds’ exodus in later part of the year and it’s another to experience it. To capture them in pictures, to follow their flight, to watch them swim and dive and dine, it’s akin to celebrating winter. You do raise many a toast to the sub-zero temperature, with season’s foods by you side. But what about the eye appetite! A day on the banks of Yamuna provides food for thought and sore eyes. It makes you wonder about their journey from Siberia, Eastern Europe and Alaska, how winter after winter they travel to where they must to survive. 

They are a lesson in adaptation and at the same time adventure. A seagull was a protagonist in Richard Bach novella Jonathan Livingston Seagull.  As the fledgling learnt about life and flight, it gave readers nuggets in self-perfection. 

While we still are at it, here is trying to host the guests with lunch and getting to know a bit more about their long sojourn.

Photos by S Chandan