Whether the weather co-operated.....

The Nandi hills trip was wonderful...but from this video, you can get an idea of how it was for birding.... It was utterly beautiful, and we did manage to see a wide variety of birds, and though I don't have the images to back that statement up, I have...plenty of fellow-birders to testify to it!

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LOTS of birds...

Non-birders... please exkoos, as they say here. We took a trip to Maidanahalli ("village of the open meadows") on Rajyotsava Day ...it proved to be a birding bonanza! It was as if Karnataka just wanted to shower us with sightings and observations! The day started with the usual CKMP (Crow Kite Mynah Pigeon)...but the raptor quotient went up sharply with the sighting of this WHITE=...

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More Sirkeer Malkoha

...and on the way back from Maidanahalli, we saw first one, and then, high up on the rocks, two near each other. In an interesing switch, I got this FS (Foozly Shot) of the Malkoha taking off from the rock: then I got this video of the bird in its habitat, where it's doing nothing but sitting quietly! Photo with action, video with none...that's the way wildlife and birding goes, sometimes!

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Birds and other creatures at Manchinabele

We were pretty lucky with our sightings and observations on the Manchinabele trip on the 21st of November; apart from the TAWNY EAGLE I also got, thanks to Manju, a first-time-ever sighting, and observation, of the WHITE-NAPED WOODPECKER high up in a TAMARIND tree High up, along with the Tawny Eagle and the BLACK KITES, was a SHORT-TOED SNAKE EAGLE ...

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Manchinabele (or Manchanabele)....

I took the morning off, after some more dental work, to visit Manchinabele Reservoir area ...the dam is built across the Arkavathi river . We took the turning when we saw the signboard: (er, we also took note of THIS signboard..."thattE idli" is one of the specialities of the area) The area is so green and beautiful, with larger shrines under the peepal trees:...

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How to Kayak in Bangalore....

...you use an inflatable kayak Here's Kiran, who met us near Manchinabele Dam backwaters ...while Manju birded with us, he got the kayak ready. Here are the steps: Kiran rolls out the kayak: He pumps air into the kayak: He fits the paddles together: Here's the equipment, all ready to go: Manju helps Kiran launch the boat: Here's ...

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Tawny Eagle, Dark Morph: Manchinabele,211109

Nodding off as I type....the rest of this trip later, in detail!

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I am, of course, missing this....

http://forestparkowls.blogspot.com/2009/11/peregrine-falcon-lecture-at-st-louis.html A lecture on Peregrine Falcons...half an hour walk for me in St.Louis...of course it's a little longer to walk to St.Louis Zoo from Bangalore!

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Hunger and Happiness....

Happiness...is getting something to eat when one is hungry. Unhappiness..is not being able to eat. I wonder how that crow manages with that broken beak...certainly the bird looked woebegone in the rain.

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Mist Photography....

We thought the mist on the hills would prevent us from spotting birds. It didn't. We thought it would prevent us from photographing birds. It did. But then we realized that the mist, in itself, was a thing of beauty. Here's the scene as we drove up the hills: This was the scene at the nursery area: The majestic trees made a chiaroscuro image: Right ...

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