This is a composite painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, of five flowering plants and two birds placed between the upper and lower pairs of plants with a notional low mound of earth in brown and green and a stream in grey heightened with white ripples in the centre of the painting at its lower edge extending out to the lower right hand corner.
The grey birds are jungle babblers (turdoides striata), a common Indian insect-eating bird. The lower bird has caught a green grasshopper in its beak, while the upper one looks up towards a white butterfly hovering above the upper left-hand plant. Another butterfly is seen flying under the foliage of the right hand upper plant and a third above the left hand plant below. The birds are rendered on a scale which is much smaller than that of the unidentified plants that surround and loom over them.
The image is framed with strips of buff-coloured paper outlined in black with two further black lines inscribed on the main plain ivory-coloured border. The page margins have blue-green strips of paper with pairs of black lines on the inner edges. A strip of beige-coloured woven textile has been added to the inner edge to act as a gutter for the binding.