The second day of the waxing phase (shukla paksha) of the moon is always very difficult to see, but this time, as we were coming back from Bheemeshwari (Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary) last Saturday (the 24th of March), we came to the small village of Muthathi, and found the villagers standing around, pointing at the western sky. When I asked some of ( Read more... )

...I'm not sure if this is the smallest bird in India, but it must be one of the smallest. It's also a very common bird....but it's so incredibly beautiful!


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KTB recently took part in a march against Cystic Fibrosis, along with the rest of her daycare, Urban Sprouts....here she is (from their newsletter)...


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Here's how the cleanup went...

http://bangalore.citizenmatters.in/blogs/show_entry/634-a-plastic

At Muthathi village, we saw this newborn calf.... you can still see its umblical cord!


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Ha, can you imagine a few days without posts from me! Yes, miracles do occur, as the Clean and Green cleanup on Saturday and a trip to Chennai took care of several days...I must say that though I couldn't access the internet in Chennai, there was so much to do....a Tambram/Punjabi wedding, and visiting friends who had either had either a baby or a ( Read more... )

I found this insect on the rock when I had been to Bheemeshwari with the Clean and Green group for the plastic clean-up.

I could hardly see it against the rock, and had to photograph it very carefully. I do not know if it is a moth or a locust or a grasshopper or....


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Here are yathin's words and pictures....

http://yathin.livejournal.com/138092.html

He has also included a sighting of "homo sapiens riverraftus".....

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Hah, that was a nice serious title...but we had so much fun yesterday, too!

yathin had again offered his Skoda for the ride, but I think I am jinxed...at Bannerghatta on Wednesday, someone had apparently deliberately punctured his tyre with a nail, and he didn't have the time to get it repaired thereafter. So I offered to take KM's pet, the Honda ( Read more... )

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Now that the i-pod is famous, here's the t-pod...these are the seed pods of the tamarind tree. This photograph is for my daughter, who loved to eat tamarind raw and would arrive back from school with her uniform pockets bulging with seed pods tha she had picked up in her school compound. It was my job to try and clean her white uniform of ( Read more... )

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We went on a half-day, very productive trip to the JLR 's Bheemeshwari property today. Too tired to sit and upload the pics and file the trip report right now...I am NOT happy with my snaps, WHY can't I take crisp pictures? Please remember,when I post my Bheemeshwari field trip report...ALL of my photos are documentation shots ( Read more... )