Day 44 - Urban wildlife

Sunny day and clear skies this Sunday.  The hibiscuses are blooming, the wasps are busy with their nest tending and the crows are cawing away as usual.

An Oriental garden lizard eyed me.

Then clambered up the tree with ease.  Those dorsal spines and the long tail, so prominent.

The Pongamia tree is moving to seed.  The flowers have lost their brilliant soft pinks.

Pongamia seeds on the tree.  A beautiful native tree, hardy, resilient and well suited to our heat and sun.

On the milkweed, a painted grasshopper sat, enjoying the sunny day.

And up above in the sky - a huge flock of pelicans rode the thermals.  Do you see them?  The wires like longitude lines in the sky.

It is quite amazing how much can be seen amidst the concrete, tar, steel and glass.  

We need to look.

Seek and ye shall find.

I sought the Shaheen falcon but did not find her, today.