The blue mormon butterfly, papilio polymnestor, on an ixora flower. This is the second largest butterfly in India, after the Southern Birdwing. In India, they are mostly endemic to south India. The blue mormons are frequenters to...
Is somebody watching me? The female Indian Koel, eudynamys scolopacea, on our cherry tree. eh? Got it! These koels often raid our bulbul nests. The bulbuls often make their nests around our house, at...
Quite often we have special visitors to our backyard. Just that we need to keep our eyes and ears open 😯 This is a fruit bat, the indian flying fox, pteropus giganteus, which must have strayed off...
One day we heard a lot of commotion just outside of our house. We saw 3 or 4 purple sunbirds, red whiskered bulbuls and yellow browed bulbuls at the same location, hovering and squeaking...
The snake n frog trapeze. Was sitting at home and I heard a call, got puzzled cuz it sounded like a bird’s but was new to me. Went to investigate what the hullabaloo was all about and...
Roxy Mathew Koll is a Climate Scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology. He also dons the role of an amateur naturalist, writer, web designer, photographer, and publisher—based on demand.
Juby Aleyas Koll, also know as Sarah, is the author and publisher of the book and website Sarah’s Hand Embroidery Tutorials. She has been researching and tutoring hand embroidery for over a decade, making it accessible to everyone around the globe.
