During my recent trip to Uttarakhand , I was faced with a problem I had never encountered before. We were passing through Delhi, but we had hardly any time in the city. On earlier visits when I have had to change trains/flights at Delhi, I have always arrived in the morning and left again at night, visiting relatives in between. This time, I was arriving in the city at night, and leaving again early in the morning. There was hardly any time to visit people. I would only have a couple of hours with them before I’d have to leave again. For the first time, we considered booking a hotel, but there again, we were hesitant about the actual hotels, the costs involved, and the logistics of getting from the airport to the railway station and then back again from the station to the airport. That’s when we remembered reading something about a corporate-managed lounge at Delhi station. We soon figured out that we could book online and pay by the hour. Besides, we also learnt that there wasn’t ju
This one is a permanent resident of our colony, and can be relied on to appear every now and then, reminding us of his presence, especially as a warning to kids not to venture into the bushes! Capturing him on camera has never been easy, even though he comes out to bask in the sun, because he seems to be more wary of the kids than they are of him, and he is the first to disappear when they mark their arrival with whoops and shouts.
I saw the chap this week as I left to collect Samhith from school, and he didn't seem to be bothered much by me, and continued to absorb the warm sun rays after a sudden spate of rainfall.
As I clicked on and on, happy that I had my camera with me for once, he turned to regard me, as if wondering what I was doing!
Incidentally, for those of you who are interested, this one is an Indian (or Oriental) Garden Lizard, also called a Changeable Lizard. It is NOT a chameleon, though it does change its colours, but much more slowly.
Great captures Anu, he seems to be knowing he is getting famous. :)
ReplyDeleteNice shots, Anu. :)
ReplyDeleteRecently we were observing a chameleon and were surprised to see it was not changing colours. May be it is a slow process.
ReplyDeleteThis one looks like a mini iguana.
Good to learn about this Garden Lizard. Thank you for this post.
ReplyDeleteNice clicks Anu... He too seems very curious!!
ReplyDelete@Indrani: Thanks... yes, he does seem to love the publicity!
ReplyDelete@Bindhu: Thanks.
@Chitra: samhith was asking me the same thing sometime back, which is why I searched a bit on the net before simply labeling it as a chameleon! and yes, it does look like a mini iguana... i was trying to get samhith to understand about evolution that way...
@Celine: thanks.. i learnt a lot too thanks to writing the post :)
@Atri: thanks... he really seemed curious!
Awesome photographs, Anu. And I always thought that fellow was a chameleon- nice to know that he is not.
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