Do you recall this ad tag line from yesteryears of Onida Television? Well, these days, this tag line perhaps fit the blossoms of Indian Coral Tree from our very own birding hotspot, Chakki Mor more than anything else.
The birding community has been making rounds of Chakki Mor these days to click photos of birds that get attracted to the red blossoms of the Indian Coral Trees . The birds on these trees include the starlings, crimson and purple sunbirds, the Himalayan, the black and red vented bulbuls, drongos, scimitar babblers, woodpeckers , nuthatches, barbets, parakeets, red billed blue magpies, the Orient magpie Robin , flycatchers and the Indian Golden oriole and even the kingfishers.
The photographs of birds on Coral Trees is a delight to watch as they are getting increasingly posted across social media forums attracting likes and appreciation comments. Perhaps the best compliment is from across the border on Instagram account of Aseem Kalia where to one of the posts, a photographer from Islamabad, Pakistan confided that bird photographers from Islamabad have been fascinated by the pictures that they have been searching Islamabad and neighbouring areas for an Indian Coral Tree frantically. Have failed to find one, the photographer requested for a sapling from him.
When Aseem shared this with some of his birding colleagues here , one of the friends jokingly remarked ,"We can gift them why just one but many saplings provided they stop perhaps you know what". Well for all you know one day the Indian Coral Tree becomes the ambassador of goodwill and diplomacy. Till then, let it be our pride and their envy.
Photograph of Spot winged starling clicked by me on Coral Flowers in Chakki Mor on April 12, 2023 on Sony a7 iv, 200-600 mm .
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