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Young Myna Chick

As mentioned in my previous posts, the nest box in my home balocony has been occupied by mynahs. For the past 15days hatching actvities are going on in full swing by the parent myna's. I could hear the sound of young myna chick from inside. For the first time yesterday, the little chick starts peeping from the hole. The young mynah chick is enthusiastic to the world... a pic

Mesmerising Monsoon Clouds 2012 from Air.

I was always fascinated by the Great Indian Monsoon. The monsoon rains are vital for the economy of India. It is elixer of life for Indian farmers. If you live in north India, you can see apparently see the transformation of life after the monsoon rain. Most part of the year, the sky remains cloudless and only during the monsoon period we can see passing clouds and percipataion. It is a pleasure to watch the puffy passing clouds. During the wet phase of the monsoon, the passing clouds pass through passing rains, one after other, dark clouds comes from SW and pound rain and disappear in the eastern skies. It is a delight to watch the monsoon rains and monsoon rains.

I used to under how the sky looks during monsoon period. Lask week I had an opportunity to fly from Bangalore to Baroda, and I waste no time in capturing the magical moments thru the plane window glass. Some snaps below:

Clouds intensity starts increasing as I go down south (21th june 2012)

Puffy clouds, like white candy.. felt like touching them

Suddenly intensity of the clouds increases, and plane experience turbulence when hit upon huge cloudmass

while ascending you could observe dense clouds in the sky

Return journey, cloudy sky at the dawn.. pic from high elevation, above the monsoon clouds(27th June 12)

Encountered huge cloud cover (may be near karnataka / Maharastra border) where the SWM was active, for few minutes nothing visible only fog like clouds everywhere.. a thrilling experience..

After few minutes, sky cleared little, and little light could be seen.. ah what a relief...

Mumbai skyline...

Overall it was an amazing experience to fly during the South West Monsoon season. You could see different shades and shapes of clouds and seeing then from above is just chilling.

Not only air-travel, the rail route from Mumbai to Trivandrum, by Konkan railway route, during monsoon  is one of the fabulous & rewarding experience...try and enjoy yourself.. it cannot be described in words...