Cute jal murghi sits on her eggs in a shrub: White breasted Waterhen at Wilderness Orchard wetland

Quietly seated in the monsoon‑humid heat, a White‑breasted waterhen sits on her nest in a shrub, surrounded by the calls of lapwings and the profusion of monsoon rain. She has laid a clutch of five eggs and keeps them safe and at the right temperature, awaiting the birth of her chicks.