A Postcard A Daay - Tuesday 20 May 2025 - T foir Tragopan, scallops and vultures

 Hello lovely peeps,

Today we are meeting again at the T-Party hosted by Elizabeth and Bluebeard. I have brought a drink and you will see what that is later.

First off my postcard, which comes all the way from India:

The sender doesn't give his/her name, but it was posted in Bangalore. It is a Maxi-card. A card with a stamp on the front with the same image or subject as the main image. The bird in the main image is a Western Tragopan. It is a type of pheasant. 

Wikipedia writes:

The western tragopan  is a medium-sized brightly plumed pheasant found along the range of Himalayas from north-eastern districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in northern Pakistan in the west to Uttarakhand within India to the east. The species is highly endangered and globally threatened.

It inhabits upper temperate forests between 2,400 and 3,600 m in summer, and in winter, dense coniferous and broad-leaved forests between 2,000 and 2,800 m elevations. The western tragopan is mostly arboreal but feeds on the ground. They feed mostly on leaves, shoots and seeds, but also consume insects and other invertebrates. Like most pheasants, they roost in trees singly or in pairs except during nesting.

The stamp on the address side features Mahatma Ghandi.

"Ahimsa Parmo Dharma" is a Sanskrit phrase meaning "Non-violence is the highest dharma," or "Non-violence is the ultimate duty." It is a foundational concept in many Eastern philosophies, particularly Hinduism and Jainism. 

Ahimsa means non-violence, "parmo" means supreme or ultimate, and "dharma" refers to duty, righteousness, or moral law. Essentially, it emphasizes that non-violence should be the primary principle guiding one's actions and interactions with the world. 

 

Ghandi of course made this principle famous outside India.

Now, what has been going on here? Nothing much.
I have been out with my lovely lodger. He is going to work abroad and he invited me out
for a meal before leaving.
He asked me where I would like to go and I mentioned a
small fish restaurant in town.

During the day it is a fish mongers and in the evening 

it's a restaurant.

Here is also my drink. I'm having white wine and my 

companion is drinking beer.

We had calamaris and scallops, and (not in the photo) 

later we had tuna tartar (raw tuna).

I go to Pilates Monday through to Thursday. On Friday 

I do archery. So, you see I keep 

myself busy. When I came home this morning I spotted

 a large group of Griffin vultures

gliding over my house. They are notoriously difficult 

to photograph in spite

of being so large. But I got one or two on my phone:

There were eleven! They are in search of carrion 

and just circle for a bit and then 

move on. By the time I got my phono out they were 

moving on.

Here are some more: (More difficult to see):

There are three on the left and one in the top right 

corner.

That was my bit of excitement for the week.

I hope to see you all at Elizabeth and Bluebeard's 

T-Party.

Happy T-Day!

Lisca