Watching Birds of the feathered kind

I stay close to Lalbagh Botanical gardens, a sprawling 250 acres of beautiful gardens right in the middle of the city.

I guess this explains the variety of birds that come down to our window sill to feed on the food we keep there.

Crows, Mynahs, Parakeets, Cuckoos…to name a few. (We even get lots of Squirrels, but sparrows seem to have gone extinct in the city)

The crows eat right out of our hands literally (I think crows are really beautiful), The cuckoo an ugly bird with a melodious voice is more shy, So was lucky to shoot one (with a camera of course).

Here are some pictures i clicked right out of the kitchen window...

This is the Male, the Female of the species is speckled grey, does not have the sing song voice of the Male Cuckoo and is camera shy.