February 2016

7-8 February. Jens Rydell from Sweden visited. I worked with Jens a lot about 25 years ago, and we had a great road trip in Florida. I hadn't seen him in 20 years (except briefly in Berlin 3 years ago), so we had a lot to catch up with. Jens has recently published some of the best bat photos I have seen in his new book. He's interested in doing an English version, so we met up to take some incidental shots during one of Roger Ransome's bat surveys, and also photographed the bat misericord at Hereford Cathedral.

Jens Rydell

greater horseshoe bat

greater horseshoe bat

Hereford Cathederal

Hereford Cathederal

Hereford Cathederal

Hereford Cathederal

Detail from the Mappa Mundi, how the world was viewed in 1300. 'the most important and most celebrated medieval map in any form'. The large building bottom middle in the lower photo represents Rome. Images converted to grey scale.

Mappa Mundi

Mappa Mundi

India: 25 January - 5 February. My first visit there in 24 years. Steve Rossiter, Jon Flanders and I taught a workshop on bat methods at Osmania University in Hyderabad. We then headed to Kawal Tiger Reserve and visited bat roosts around there.

Rousettus leschenaultii

Rousettus leschenaultii

Rousettus leschenaultii

Rousettus leschenaultii

Cynopterus sphinx

Cynopterus sphinx

Cynopterus sphinx

Megaderma lyra

Megaderma lyra

Megaderma lyra

Megaderma lyra

Hipposideros speoris - grey and orange colour morphs.

Hipposideros speoris

Hipposideros lankadiva

Hipposideros lankadiva

Hipposideros lankadiva

Hipposideros lankadiva

Asian palm civet

Asian palm civet

Rhesus macaque

Rhesus macaque

Rhesus macaque

Southern plains gray langur Semnopithecus dussumieri.

southern plains langur

Psammophilus dorsalis, peninsular rock agama or South Indian rock agama.

Peninsula rock agama

Hemidactylus cf. giganteus, giant leaf-toed gecko.

giant leaf-toed gecko

Indian roller

Indian roller

Green bee-eater

green bee-eater

Spotted dove

spotted dove

and some Indian people, followed by a sunset.

Indian people

Indian people

Indian people

Indian people

Indian people

sunset

Bird list

Great cormorant

Little cormorant

Little grebe

Great egret

Little egret

Cattle egret

Purple heron

Indian pond heron

Asian openbill

Black-headed ibis

Black ibis

Combe duck

Spot-billed duck

Common pochard

Black-shouldered kite

Brahminy kite

Black kite

Shikra

Bonelli's eagle

Booted eagle

Grey francolin

Indian peafowl

Grey jungle fowl

Bronze-winged jacana

Yellow-wattled lapwing

Red-wattled lapwing

Green sandpiper

Common sandpiper

Black-headed gull

Brown-headed gull

River tern

Whiskered tern

Spotted dove

Feral pigeon

Plum-headed parakeet

Alexandrine parakeet

Rose-ringed parakeet

Greater coucal

Lesser coucal

Spotted owlet

House swift

Crested treeswift

Indian roller

Pied kingfisher

White-throated kingfisher

Green bee-eater

Brown-headed barbet

Indian grey hornbill

White-naped woodpecker

Rufous-tailed lark

Dusky crag martin

Wire-tailed swallow

Black drongo

Asian pied starling

Common mynah

Rufous treepie

House crow

Red-vented bulbul

Jungle babbler

Common babbler

Asian paradise flycatcher

Plain prinia

Chiffchaff

Clamorous reed warbler

Oriental magpie robin

Indian robin

Paddyfield pipit

White-browed wagtail

Forest wagtail

Purple sunbird

Indian silverbill

House sparrow

Other mammals

Nilgai

Chausingha

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