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Rishimukha, near Anegundi and Hampi, Karnataka Watch the S1/E6 field reel: Watch S1/E6 on your preferred platform Instagram → YouTube Shorts → Facebook → TikTok → Before the crossing Akul and I were about to cross the narrow log bridge to Rishimukha when two white waterbirds appeared beside it. They called to each other, moved through the shallows and seemed completely unbothered by us. In the moment, we called them ducks. A viewer later asked the right question: ducks—or geese? Looking again at the original footage, the long curved necks, large bodies and orange-yellow bills identify them as domestic geese , not ducks. They resemble an Embden-type domestic goose, although the footage is not sufficient to assign a breed with certainty. Two white domestic geese beside the Rishimukha crossing The correction does not diminish the encounter. It makes the field record more precise: two geese, entirely unplanned, became the quiet opening to our return to Rishimukha. The crossing to...

Watch S1/E4 on your preferred platform Instagram → YouTube Shorts → Facebook → Anjanadri Hill, Hampi, Karnataka · April 2025 The squirrels still chat at Kishkinda I first noticed them on the climb I was climbing the front route of Anjanadri Hill: 575 steep steps toward the place traditionally identified as Hanuman’s birthplace. It was an April morning. The rock was already warming in the sun. Below the steps, the Tungabhadra and the green fields of Kishkinda stretched between the hills. That was when I began noticing the squirrels. They moved through the trees beside the route, close to the people climbing. They did not behave like animals startled by every human movement. They seemed completely accustomed to us. At first, I simply filmed them. Watch Video 1 — The squirrels as I first noticed them: They seemed to notice that I was watching The longer I watched, the less one-sided the encounter felt. The squirrels remained busy—running along branches, stopping, looking and ...