Do you remember that a certain Vinu had etched my name in the snow at

Yosemite ?

Well, last Saturday I went to a part of the Bannerghatta area that

Sangeetha

had birded in, many years ago, and decided to re-visit, I found this:


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I saw, on the bngbirds egroup, that someone called

R. Padmanabhan, a doctoral student at IIT Madras ....who belongs to the Madras Naturalist Society, had asked if anyone could go birding with him to the Bannerghatta Forest area. To me, this is like someone asking if I want chocolate. I promptly emailed him, and this morning, he came with three ( Read more... )

Having not had much success with hiking the previous day, we decided that we would make a more concerted effort to find a trail that would accomodate a perambulator (or a stroller, as it is called here ( Read more... )

We did, finally, manage to drive out for a bit of exploration; first, in the Lake Tahoe Basin


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Sometimes the birds co-operate, sometimes they don't...the trip that we took to Turahalli cannot be termed highly productive in terms of large numbers of birds and raptors sighted...but like all trips to the wilderness, it was always enjoyable, and the company was great, too ( Read more... )

One of the best remedies I have for the blahs is...head out to some greenery (or, as it nowadays, the brownery.) So when I got a chance, even at 8am, to visit Turahalli, I jumped at it, and...the birds seem to just arrive to be sighted by Sharad ( Read more... )

The sheetrock at Ragihalli (which is in the Bannerghatta area) means fantastic views, and surreal designs in the rock...the sun, shining through a wisp of raincloud (all that water in the cloud gives that prismatic effect) was reflected in one of the hundreds of rock pools on the rock slopes...


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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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