Email to the Bngbirds egroup:


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Aravind, Sharmila, Raji, Tarachand and I went to Ragihalli


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Waiting for a religious discourse to finish, I saw this gecko stuck to the roof of an under-stairs toilet...waiting with infinite patience, stock-still, for some creature to get within reach....


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It started out as three people...Naveen, Nandan and I, going to Valley School; but the minute I realized that more people could go...I ensured that more people DID! So finally, it was 8 of us who had piping hot coffees at Park View, before going off to a misty morning at Valley School.....here IS the misty morning:


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We were pretty lucky with our sightings and observations on the Manchinabele trip on the 21st of November; apart from the

TAWNY EAGLE


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Two birding trips, one to Ramnagara and one to Ragihalli in the Bannerghatta Forest area....an evening with old film music and great friends....catching up with old friendships...what could be better? I am a very lucky person.

Four of the most common things one can see on a trip to the outdoors:

The MORNING GLORY (Convolvulus):


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It's my turn to post another "where is it" picture....this one's much easier (and of course, a far fouler photograph!) than kalyan's though! Here's the Draco or the Flying Lizard in the Salim Ali bird sanctuary in Thattekad, Kerala:


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