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
We have seen Red Wattled Lapwings in Mumbai, but got a really close look at them while at Mount Abu and Udaipur. Though it was summer, there was plenty of water, and these birds were prominently visible near every water body we visited.
A pair of lapwings at Nakki Lake, Mount Abu....
We saw these birds when we went boating, and couldn't get any closer.....
And then at Udaipur, they were everywhere!
Nehru Park, on an island in the Fateh Sagar Lake, was a bird haven - we saw many birds and lost count of time photographing them. There were plenty of lapwings there.....
Some of them seemed to be nesting... we saw many like these sitting down at the same spot, and wondered if it was a nest.....
We even saw one bird sit down in the middle of the path!
In the same garden, some of the lapwings seemed unafraid of us, and allowed us to come close, giving me some wonderful photos!
After all those male and female lapwings, it was time for the young ones! We saw these chicks at the Udaipur zoo. No, they weren't in the enclosures, but were walking around freely, which only made the experience more memorable!
A pair of lapwings at Nakki Lake, Mount Abu....
We saw these birds when we went boating, and couldn't get any closer.....
And then at Udaipur, they were everywhere!
Nehru Park, on an island in the Fateh Sagar Lake, was a bird haven - we saw many birds and lost count of time photographing them. There were plenty of lapwings there.....
Some of them seemed to be nesting... we saw many like these sitting down at the same spot, and wondered if it was a nest.....
In the same garden, some of the lapwings seemed unafraid of us, and allowed us to come close, giving me some wonderful photos!
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