Diana and the Monarch
A face-off
This is one of my most favorite series from this summer. This was also my first encounter with a Diana Fritillary.
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What are the Wingmates up to?
We have taken a couple of trips in 2022 and now visiting our home country India after a very long time. Of course we are birding and photographing everywhere we go, and we look forward to sharing some stories with you. We wish we had more time to process our photos and write the blogs we plan to. It's hard when you have another full time job. Trying to catch up soon!Meanwhile, we have added some new features on this website. For example, check the page with some of our featured photos, or become a friend of Wingmates to motivate us or to get the most recent updates from us.
The blogs that we are really looking forward to putting up are our experiences from Hawaii. We have been quite busy with work over the last few months making it hard to sit down and process all the photos. We anticipate to have the Hawaii blogs ready very soon.
Birdlam 2024
A family affair
Spring always brings excitement as we gear up for Birdlam, our local bird-watching competition organized by the Payne County Audubon Society.
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Oklahoma Diaries
Warmer days
As spring officially settles in, one of the things we eagerly anticipate is the return of the scissortail flycatchers to our state. They arrive famished after a long migration, eager to satisfy their hunger with the abundance of bugs now buzzing around.
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Oklahoma Diaries
February-March 2024 - Early Spring
Our backyard starts getting pretty busy in February. The cardinals start singing, and the blossoms start popping up. The cedar waxwings were regulars over the winter as we had a good season for our berries. But in early spring, they were after something else… the buds!
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Oklahoma Diaries
January 2024 - We are back!
So, January rolls around and you can bet it's gonna be chilly here in Stillwater. Snow days? Yeah, we get 'em here and there, and this year was no different. We waved goodbye to last year with some cool days and even lucked out with a couple of snowfalls...
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Oklahoma Diaries
January 2023 - Birding in India
In our last blog (posted a lifetime ago), we showed you some glimpses of our visit to India. We thought that it would be nice to look back at the rest of that trip. So here it is assuming you are ready for many many photos that we enjoyed capturing...
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Oklahoma Diaries
December 2022 - A trip back home
2022 has almost come to end. After a relatively warm fall, it’s finally getting cold. After a very productive year photographically, Wingmates decided to stay back at home and prepare for the upcoming trip to India, our home country.
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Oklahoma Diaries
April 2022 - A birdy spring
The month of April was quite happening for the Wingmates. It is the time when spring migration starts to pick up, and we were very happy to see a lot of bird activity.
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Birdlam 2022
Oklahoma's Big birding day
March continued to be very busy for both of us. It’s the month of the spring break, and we did take a few days off to travel to California. We met some good friends, had great food and of course spent most of our time birding!
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Oklahoma Diaries
March 2022 - Spring is here
March continued to be very busy for both of us. It’s the month of the spring break, and we did take a few days off to travel to California. We met some good friends, had great food and of course spent most of our time birding!
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Oklahoma Diaries
February 2022 - In search of the owls
February is the shortest month in the calendar and our birding adventures were even shorter this month. We hardly got time to go out birding other than one particular weekend. So, we will also add some older photos from last year to keep you entertained!
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Oklahoma Diaries
January 2022 - The sunset hues
Birding continued to be slow in January, but birder migration through Stillwater were busier than usual! We hosted a birder friend in January and we are eagerly looking forward to have another friend visiting us soon! We decided to take our birder friend Rebecca to some good local birding spots...
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Fall stories from Stillwater
Part 2
Fall 2021 was strange! The fall colors came late, and the winter even later. The weather was comfortable and warm even in December. The flowers were still going strong in late November and so were the butterflies, grasshoppers and other critters. The migratory butterflies were feeding vigorously on the flowers...
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Fall stories from Stillwater
Part 1
Welcome to Sreemala and Pratyay’s BnB, birds and butterflies, that is! Fall in Stillwater is now over… well, almost. The days are still pretty warm, sometimes unusually so! As we wait for finally welcoming the winter, we are still basking in the warmth of the colorful photos we took this...
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