Several people have asked me why I wear my backpack in front ( Read more... )

On my visit to Manipal, Karnataka, walking in the Saralabettu area while participating in the Bird Day, I saw this scene:


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An email to the egroup of the Bird Watchers' Field Club ( Read more... )

My email to Mike Grant (in charge of birding/field trips, Audubon Society of St.Louis ( Read more... )

Several of us drove down to Daroji and Hampi, leaving on the 29th of ( Read more... )

I have written, I think, about Shyamal....in a world full of serious ornithologicalstudy, he leavens his knowledge with a lot of humour. (He is still capable of a scholarly treatise with words I can hardly understand ( Read more... )

On Sunday, adarshraju,anushsh,Geeta, Prasanna decided that we would make it a JLRNTP trip...Adarsh and I had thought of going to Bandipur or to Nagarhole, but then since there was a logistics problem, we decided on a closer destination instead. Devarayanadurga, about which I posted here , here , here , and here is still a fairly unspoilt and beautiful place, ( Read more... )

Here's my favourite shot from Bandipur ....


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