Next enthralling episode of my long-running (and long-suffering) serial, "My Birth Certificate ( Read more... )

Email to Bngbirds egroup ( Read more... )

In praise of leaky pipes ( Read more... )

Tiny things can be quite as amazing as their larger counterparts! While at Mavathur Kere, we noticed this tiny whirlpool in the pipe through which water was being carried to the Byadagi chilli fields.


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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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At the lake in Lalbagh, one can often find the water snakes called

Checkered Keelbacks

On one occasion, Raji and I saw one, just under the surface of the water:


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When Vaibhav called me to come and guide the residents of a gated community on a bird walk in Madivala kere, I was very happy to do so. So off we went to the kere at 4pm. I first got a photo of him with the bird board that

Brickwork India had put up. The photos of the waterfowl are all by him and Dr Sanjeev Managoli, a paediatrician who manages ( Read more... )

After having attended the 3rd Sunday outing at Turahalli, Gurjeet Singh,Mohit Aggarwal, Tarachand Wanvari and I decided that Tara should also be able to see the Demoiselle Crane, and off we went to Hulimangala. While we were there, I found that many young lads still delight in the simple pleasures of life ( Read more... )

At the last minute, on Sunday morning, I convinced 20 other birders that instead of going to Valley School, we should bird along the Kaggalipura-Bannerghatta stretch, and then go to check out Hulimangala. And there, at nearly the end of a long birding outing, we saw a migrant which has never before been sighted in the Bangalore area...the

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