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While on the birding trip, we visited the large Hennagara lake, and Prashanth, who lives in Jigani and seems very knowledgeable about the area, pointed out he nAga dEvathA temple at Hennagara Kere (lake).

Here's the temple, on the lake-bund (raised bank):


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Some time ago, in Bannerghatta, I'd sighted the

SHIELDTAIL

which I'd posted about

here On Saturday evening, I went to Nandi Hills with Naveen Toppo, his wife (and super bird-spotter) Pinky, and Sharmila Abdulpurkar. Walking along the path near Nehru Nilaya, we found some young men gently nudging something from the middle of the road on to the ( Read more... )

Thomas Marklin

of Switzerland had emailed me on

INW

last year, and asked if he could use my images and videos of the

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Apart from the sighting of the

Shieldtail

Soma, Baljeet and I also spotted varied and interesting (always!)creatures and plants...

There was, for example, this beautiful little amphibian, posing on a rock:


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Garima

had introduced me to her friend Soma Jha from Kolkata and I took her and her friend Baljeet to the Bannerghatta Zoo area (my usual haunt!)...and amongst other interesting stuff, we suddenly sighted what we, at first sight, thought was an earthworm:


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We were driving back home, and had turned into our street when D braked suddenly, saying, "Oh, I hope I didn't run over it!" ...when he backed up, we found that he hadn't.


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As we were returning from the birding session, we found this Banded Kukri (thank you, Seshadri, for the id!)on the path:


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Sssssnakes...they don't always hiss and look dramatic; they just are THERE as you pass by, and you do a double take, knowing that you are looking at a deadly specimen.

This MALABAR PIT VIPER was on a bush very close to the ARRS main building:


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Haven't you seen a Biranimake?

Take the road to Mysore. Just past Bidadi, there is a resort. Look at the mural on the wall.

And you will see two of them...one a Birnake, and one an Animake.


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