Monday 11 December 2017

Birdwatching from a Train


A comic inspired partly by Douglas Dewar's essay 'A Naturalist in a Railway Train', and partly by true incidents, that appears in my column with Saevus magazine this month. I am sure every Indian birdwatcher who has taken a train journey will relate.

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  1. Hmm...there is a stretch between Chennai and Hyderabad which goes along the edges of Pulicat lake...you can recognize the birders as they are the ones at the open train doors. -Deepa.

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  2. Just imagined the look on their faces 😆 .....

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  3. Reminds me of my train journeys from Delhi to Haldwani. Good one.

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  4. totally relatable.... made a checklist even today. ;)

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  5. totally relatable... made a checklist even today ;)

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  6. That's how I started watching birds; commuting weekly between Kochi and Trivandrum and too bored reading books and magazines! That was in the mid-80s and I used to sit at the entrance/exit and with a binoculars too!

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