Monsoon Magic - Now for some warming up

The male and female take turns to hatch the eggs. Here is the male doing its part in the clearly defined division of labour

Monsoon Magic - Propagation of species

While all the rain and thunder goes on , a honey eater decides to lay a couple of eggs in a bridal boquet bush to propagate her species.Dont miss the mastery of weaving the nest out of coconut tree waste material

Monsoon Magic - Tears of Joy

Monsoon Magic - All streams lead to .........

The River.....The end of the road for all the inlets

Monsoon Magic - Color purple

When the white one shuts at 10 am ,the purple lotus opens side by side in the same pond .(leaving an almost uniterrupted meal for the bees.)The purple lotus closes at 8pm when the white one opens. Like the White, the purple lotus opens and closes in a cyclical manner for four days and then withers and falls into the pond.

Monsoon Magic - Fully open

The bud opens and the blossom helps some of the bees have their nectar. During the monsoon ,there are less flowers and hence diminished food supply for the bees. They depend on seasonal flowers like these (Indeed seasanoal since the flower closes again at 10 am to the bud stage and then reopens at 8pm)

This process ,it continues for 4 days and then the flower withers and falls into the pond and most often a new bud would have sprouted from the pond

Monsoon Magic - White out

A white lotus (Called Ambal in Malayalam and pronounced as Aambel) bud gets ready to blossom at 8pm(Which is the the blossom time and this lasts for a period of 12 hours)

Monsoon Magic - Waltzing Matilda

The coconuts trees have never had it so good and dance to the wind and water

Monsoon Magic - Flat out

Tall grass in the streams bursting with inflow from varous sources are unable to withstand the pressure of water and hence move from a 90 degree position to a 180 degree position

Monsoon Magic - Lone Ranger

A lone crab walks out of the stream but loses it way back and get stranded

Monsoon Magic - Having a ball

Children play foot ball in the lush , water logged paddy fields. The lazy guy prefers to cycle in the field.

Monsoon Magic - Creepy stuff

When the burrows gets filled with water ,snakes and other denizens come out to escape the water logging and settle in warmer spots like fire wood storage huts Here a five inch poisonous scorpion with all its poison in its sting (Zoom in on the tip of the tail where the sting is located) escapes a burrow in search of another place to dwell.

Monsoon Magic - Heavens open up

Monsoon Magic - Waiting to pour

The first set of clouds gather to pour