Yesterday, a group of us, including adarshraju, amoghavarsha and anushsh, went to visit the Bannerghatta forest area, where one of our fellow NTP members, Geetanjali Dhar, had invited us (the forest abuts her residential layout).

One of the images I got was of these flies mating:


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We watched the male and female Masai ostriches shivering their plumes in their ritual mating dance. They were pretty far away...but then, from the grass, two most unexpected heads popped up. Two cheetahs, taking their ease, languidly watched the ras-leela entertainment provided for them!

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Very early this morning, sanathreddy, anushsh and I went to IISc campus to do a bit of birding before the meeting we went to have. We spotted only the usual birds, the COUCAL, the WHITE-CHEEKED BARBET, the BULBULS,the INDIAN ROBIN, the ASIAN KOEL, the FLOWERPECKERS, the SCALY-BREASTED MUNIA (though Sanath said he saw a BLACK-HEADED MUNIA as well)the PURPLE SUNBIRDS ( Read more... )

We were so lucky to be able to watch and document this...photos were by KM, at the Insectarium in the St Louis Zoo.

Don't look for crispness...he was following these butterflies as they flitted about and around each other.

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