Jayamangali Black Buck Reserve was a long pending trip on my wishlist. Day just came as Deepa Mohan initiated a day trip & I confirmed immediately. Jayamangali (formerly called as Maidanahalli) is in Madhugiri taluk, Tumkur district of Karnataka. This place is appox 140Kms from Bangalore where availability of food & drinking water is absolutely
READ MOREHessarghatta at 6:30am December It was more than a month i had been to birding after my Sundarbans tour, Two spots Nandi hills & Hesarghatta was on the list & finally decided on Hesarghatta, left home around 5:30am, fog all around & chilling breeze… ahhh!! fresh air after a longtime 🙂 . A drive
READ MOREI saw something crawling near the stone bench at my backyard, it was a bat!!! first I thought it was a fruit bat which is usually seen near my home. We have a mango tree & also a fig & silk cotton tree 300Mtrs away from my home. So, fruit bats are usual & sometimes
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Ants are particularly good animals to mimic, (Yes its an animal , it belongs to Insecta Class, Anthropoda Phylum, Kingdom Animalia) Firstly because they available in large numbers & they are distasteful to many other animals or dangerous to eat. So by looking like an ant, the spider mimic is less likely to be noticed
READ MOREPrakruti Creations led by Mr.B.Srinivas & Mr.H.V.Praveen Kumar both from YPS Bangalore arranged a 3Day Nature Photography Workshop at Bandipur Karnataka from 21st-23rd July 2011 & stay was at the very best Jungle Lodges Bandipur 🙂 . We all left Bangalore at 6:30 in morning, had breakfast at Ramanagara & reached JLR campus at around
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Today I was mending some flowerpots in my backyard as recent rain had destroyed newly grown flowering plants, While emptying a flowerpot I saw a strange worm, approximately around 4 Cms long. At first I thought that it was a earthworm & wanted it to be in the same pot as they keep the soil
READ MOREAll small shrine is maintained at ARRS Campus where Snake god (Nagappa – in kannada) is worshipped King Cobra -Female Malabar Pit Viper. Green Vine Snake. Hill Keelback (Shredding time so the eyes looks blurred with the extra skin covered) Calotes Calotes Cicada. Mayfly. Giant Stick Insect Fulgoridae | Kalidasa nigromaculata Cricket Insect Damselfly
READ MOREAgumbe has many species of amphibians & I always wanted to photograph the charismatic Malabar Flying Frog & Draco (Malabar flying lizard), unfortunately i dint get any photos of Dracos as it usually comes out during sunshine but our three days were wet & pouring :). Malabar Gliding Frog (Rhacophorus malabaricus) Amboli Bush Frog Leaping
READ MOREIt was a three day photography tour at Agumbe, the first day ended up meeting & rescuing the King. Second & third day was full of life as we found many species of Insects, Amphibians & Snakes . Agumbe rain forest is the perfect example for bio-diversity & is alive every minute, I would say
READ MOREVisiting Agumbe was always on my wish list & monsoon is the best time to visit. Darter led by Shreeram was conducting a photography tour at Agumbe & I confirmed my participation. This tour was accompanied with famous Herpetologist and Rain forest expert Gowri Shankar who had featured in ‘The King and I’ and ‘Secrets
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