A last-minute decision, and six of us, including a birder from Noida, Delhi, who will be moving to Bangalore in a while...off we went, in the predawn dark, to T G Halli Reservoir.

Padma Ramaswamy, Akhilesh Sharma, G S Ramaswamy, Y S Prasanna, Sudha Mahalingam


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Amith
Arun
Kamal
Naveen
Rashmi
Rohan
Roy
Swethadri

and I decided to visit

T G Halli Reservoir it was good that we made an early start, because though we got to the area quickly, it took us quite a while to figure out access paths to the water body ( Read more... )

It's been quite a hectic time, as I've been doing some amount of volunteering and some amount of for-me nature trails, too. Last Sunday, 18 (yes!) of us went to

Maidanahalli as several people in the UGS (Usual Gang of Suspects, our group of friends who like to go for nature trails), and had a wonderful time, that included an awesome sunset ( Read more... )

After a very long time, we had a local BULBs (Bangalore Urban LadyBirders) outing (it was beginning to seem as if they went only on international trips!), and we decided to go to Manchinabele Reservoir.

As usual, the day started with fog and mist:


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I took the morning off, last Saturday after some more dental torture work, to go with the BULBs, and visit

Manchinabele Reservoir area ...the dam is built across the

Arkavathi river .

We took the turning when we saw the signboard:


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...you use an

inflatable kayak

Here's Kiran, who met us near

Manchinabele Dam backwaters


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As we went around the area from which we could see the bald eagles at Alton, we saw these gulls wheeling over and around the reservoir. They keep shitting all over the gates. what is amazing, though, is that one of these by-products has actually taken on the likeness of a gull itself!


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