Hadinaru Kere (Devi Outing), 120323
Decided on the Devi Outings group.
Biju, Padma, Shoba,Radhika, Jayashree (Cavery and Vrushali absent, I am behind the camera)
We left at 4am, got on to the Expressway before Modi's visit would close it down. Stopped at Mandya for MCS. Returned via Kanakapura Road. Had Shoba's parathas and pickle at Hip Hop Cafe, which is closing down as footfalls have decreased since the Expressway opened. Sugarcane juice at the lake western side. Met Cheenu Narasimhan and Gayatri. Saw Prof Raghuram and his wife. Watched a religious procession and various rites connected with the temple.
Lake location: https://goo.gl/maps/8SDb7htmft35BCCLA (that is the eastern end of the lake)
eBird: https://ebird.org/checklist/S130718143 (87 sp)
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/86494503@N00/albums/72177720306670618
FB: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10159761259498878&type=3
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I found this cover on a notebook at the MCS (Mandatory Chai Stop):
Also found at the shop:
and this customer-friendly sign!
You want onions? You can have them by the truckful!
BnW profiles of 5 of the Ashta Devis:
The mandatory photo of the Bar-headed Geese:
The Cotton Pygmy Goose (though in these days of synthetic fibres, we should perhaps call it the Nylon Pygmy Goose?)
Biju sketches the Palash flower:
I have made a blogpost about the preparations for the habba (festival) at the Kerethadi Kempamma Festival,
here
A Paddyfield Pipit looks up at the sky. No rain!
The beautiful Blue-tailed Bee-eaters:
An Asian Brown Flycatcher looks back quizzically at me!
Many women did their laundry at the lake:
Two beautiful Damselflies:
Brahmi (Bacopa monnieri):
!
Zero stone!
We all had kabbina hAlu (sugarcane juice). Mother Kaveri gifts us this sweet treat, too, feeding the fields!
The kerethadi kempammA temple. I am making a separate blogpost about the festival there, and the preparations for it at
On the way back, because the Expressway was closed, we took more than 4 hours to return. We stopped to eat the delicious parathas and chutney (with chilli pickle) that Shoba had made, at a place called Hip Hop Cafe.
Pradeep was managing the cafe and told us that thanks to the opening of the new expressway, customers had dropped a lot and they were about to close. We enjoyed this mural, and the excellent coffee that he made for us:
I got a colourful bus running on three HP (Horse Power)!
We did some shopping at the Mangalore store on our return.
matti gooLu is a special variety of brinjal:
I found this witty sign advertising Hones-tea
So of course we wound up with adhrak chai!
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Videos:
0007 Driving through Mandya, decked up for Modi's visit to inaugurate the Blr-Mys expressway:
https://youtu.be/oX2qq_JFJlw
0071 Religious procession, Hadinaru Kere: https://youtu.be/bg_xs6b97wE
There was a festival at the Kerethadi Kempamma temple at Hadinaru, and I was able to document this religious procession (the men wore jingling bells (gejje), which one cannot hear because of the traffic. In my album I will also post photos of devotees, having bathed, walking into the park in loincloths, and cooking a votive offering by filing pots on the fire with water, and then pouring rice into the boiling pots. All the devotees, whether men or women, had a dip in the kere, and then came with wet clothes to worship the deity.
0109 Clamorous Reed Warbler calling. The call was loud and strident and explained why the bird is so named. https://youtu.be/fhaJpaal_fg
0110 (2) Song of the Clamorous Reed Warbler. The bird can't be seen here, but can be heard loud and clear! https://youtu.be/Pgy6VD7jj9M
Biju, Padma, Shoba,Radhika, Jayashree (Cavery and Vrushali absent, I am behind the camera)
We left at 4am, got on to the Expressway before Modi's visit would close it down. Stopped at Mandya for MCS. Returned via Kanakapura Road. Had Shoba's parathas and pickle at Hip Hop Cafe, which is closing down as footfalls have decreased since the Expressway opened. Sugarcane juice at the lake western side. Met Cheenu Narasimhan and Gayatri. Saw Prof Raghuram and his wife. Watched a religious procession and various rites connected with the temple.
Lake location: https://goo.gl/maps/8SDb7htmft35BCCLA (that is the eastern end of the lake)
eBird: https://ebird.org/checklist/S130718143 (87 sp)
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/86494503@N00/albums/72177720306670618
FB: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10159761259498878&type=3
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I found this cover on a notebook at the MCS (Mandatory Chai Stop):
Also found at the shop:
and this customer-friendly sign!
You want onions? You can have them by the truckful!
BnW profiles of 5 of the Ashta Devis:
The mandatory photo of the Bar-headed Geese:
The Cotton Pygmy Goose (though in these days of synthetic fibres, we should perhaps call it the Nylon Pygmy Goose?)
Biju sketches the Palash flower:
I have made a blogpost about the preparations for the habba (festival) at the Kerethadi Kempamma Festival,
here
A Paddyfield Pipit looks up at the sky. No rain!
The beautiful Blue-tailed Bee-eaters:
An Asian Brown Flycatcher looks back quizzically at me!
Many women did their laundry at the lake:
Two beautiful Damselflies:
Brahmi (Bacopa monnieri):
!
Zero stone!
We all had kabbina hAlu (sugarcane juice). Mother Kaveri gifts us this sweet treat, too, feeding the fields!
The kerethadi kempammA temple. I am making a separate blogpost about the festival there, and the preparations for it at
On the way back, because the Expressway was closed, we took more than 4 hours to return. We stopped to eat the delicious parathas and chutney (with chilli pickle) that Shoba had made, at a place called Hip Hop Cafe.
Pradeep was managing the cafe and told us that thanks to the opening of the new expressway, customers had dropped a lot and they were about to close. We enjoyed this mural, and the excellent coffee that he made for us:
I got a colourful bus running on three HP (Horse Power)!
We did some shopping at the Mangalore store on our return.
matti gooLu is a special variety of brinjal:
I found this witty sign advertising Hones-tea
So of course we wound up with adhrak chai!
**********************
Videos:
0007 Driving through Mandya, decked up for Modi's visit to inaugurate the Blr-Mys expressway:
https://youtu.be/oX2qq_JFJlw
Click to view0071 Religious procession, Hadinaru Kere: https://youtu.be/bg_xs6b97wE
There was a festival at the Kerethadi Kempamma temple at Hadinaru, and I was able to document this religious procession (the men wore jingling bells (gejje), which one cannot hear because of the traffic. In my album I will also post photos of devotees, having bathed, walking into the park in loincloths, and cooking a votive offering by filing pots on the fire with water, and then pouring rice into the boiling pots. All the devotees, whether men or women, had a dip in the kere, and then came with wet clothes to worship the deity.
0109 Clamorous Reed Warbler calling. The call was loud and strident and explained why the bird is so named. https://youtu.be/fhaJpaal_fg
0110 (2) Song of the Clamorous Reed Warbler. The bird can't be seen here, but can be heard loud and clear! https://youtu.be/Pgy6VD7jj9M