Winged Life Winner: Frame Within a Frame
Frame Within a Frame by Sitaram May
Sitaram May spent multiple nights during Covid-19 lockdowns carefully observing the fruit bats near his home in Badlapur, India. A lot of patience earned him this shot of a bat perfectly framed by greenery.
Fruit bats are crucial pollinators and seed dispersers, though the pandemic may have wrongly solidified many peoples’ views of bats as pests. In India, people are allowed to kill many species of fruit bats without repercussion. Their populations may be suffering because of it.
