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Nationwide and worldwide lockdown does have a tremendous positive impact on the environment. Nature itself is in a recovery mode and wildlife and birds are claiming that which respectfully belongs to them. In such a backdrop I have been photographing all the different types of birds that are visiting the foliage near my terrace in Kalina, Mumbai. Of the many different species, the Copper Smith Barbet is a bird that normally prefers to stay in the forest locales. So it was quite surprising to see it in the urban center of Mumbai and proliferating healthily. This one was a sub-adult bird that was actually playing hide and seek with me or rather with my camera and I tres to photograph it as much as I could. THE ADULT COPPER SMITH BARBET Add caption

From Australopithecus, to Homo Neanderthals, to Paleolithic, to Neolithic we have come a long way. We here   is the Human race or us the mere mortals. Our intelligence and our ability to comprehend and our ability to communicate has alleviated us from mere animals to humans. We developed the devastating atom bomb, we went to space and landed in moon, we are now well ahead in our plans to colonize mars, and by doing things that even two centuries ago was thought as preposterous. Somewhere in our Psyche   we have started believing that we are the creators of this universe. We are the chosen ones that can create ,destroy and create again.   In the movie The Jurassic park there was a wonderful dialogue it goes like this, ”God created Man and God created dinosaurs. God destroyed dinosaurs and Man created dinosaurs,” We mortals have started behaving very arrogantly now a days. We are trying to control nature, the ultimate force, without thinking about what nature can do ...