When I go for my morning walk around the Mini Forest, it's often dark, and so it's easy to see the magic of the cobwebs that the spiders spin, to catch the insects that are drawn to the light....


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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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Creation of anything is wonderful; sometimes it's done with silk:


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Nature's creatures spin the silk
Right across the leaves:
The magic spans the twigs, the grass:
Over the seeds, and sheaves.


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One gets to see things in the most unexpected places. I went to see a 11-day-old baby, and I found this...Prashanth pointed it out to me in a plant that was in a flower-pot!


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We were lucky to sight a huge variety of creatures at Kabini...one of the most stunning being the

SOUTHERN BIRDWING

the largest butterfly in India....


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Krupakar (a fellow-birder who lives three doors away from me)suddenly sms-ed me at 10.30pm, because he was given an off day for the Ayodhya verdict. (He'll have to slog it out on Saturday.)It was too late to ask anyone else...so off we both went ( Read more... )

We saw a variety of creatures on our trek near Chik Yelchetti, and into the forest area; I'm giving the bird-list at the end, but here are some of the living things that I C-on-C (Caught on Camera):

This is the

WHITE-BELLIED DRONGO:


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And as I looked, I found some of the signs of Spring..most notably, on a crack of the pavement (sorry, sidewalk!), I found this dandelion blooming:


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