Jan 272012
 

Republic day was awesome as a group of birding friends decided Gulakmale as the destination for the day. Gulakmale is a small village near Kaggalipura of South Bangalore off kanakapura road. This place is accessible both from Kanakapura Road & Bannerghatta road. My route was through Kanakapura road ( Chamarajpet > K.R Road > Banashankari temple > Thalaghattapura > underpass Nice road flyover > Art of living & from there approx 4kms Kaggalipura > Ask for Bannerghatta road in Kaggalipura which is a left turn at the traffic T junction on the Kanakapura main road, > around 2kms you’ll pass Gulakmaale Govt School on right side & from there 1 Km you’ll get a “Y” junction> Take LEFT & not the right which goes to bannerghatta > ask for Gulakmaale kere (tank)  & take left turn which is a mud road & drive down around half km which leads to Gulakmaale tank bund).

Gulakmaale Bund

Gulakmaale Tank Bund

Gulakmaale-Tank

Gulakmaale Tank 

Gulakmaale-Tank

Birding around the tank & nearby places by walk is good & you will see many species of birds, few meters on the road next to bund leads to a small bridge & then to the water area.

Gulakmaale-Sunrise

Sunrise at Gulakmaale 

Wired-Tailed-Swallow

Indian-Robin

Indian Robin

Silver-Bill

Indian Silverbill

Red Vented Bulbul

Red Vented Bulbul

Egret

Green-Bee-Eater

Gree Bee-Eater

Yellow-Eyed-Babbler

Yellow Eyed Babbler 

River-Tern

River Tern

Fellow-Birders

Birdwatchers

A passing by villager tipped us to visit a place called Thottikallu Falls (TK falls) which is around 2Kms from the Gulakmaale tank & told that many more birds could be spotted there.

Dried Weed

Dried Weed on a old building near the TK Falls 

I dint saw many birds here as it was 11:00am already, but i am planning to visit this patch again much early next time & cover some water bodies too on the way. Others from our group spotted many flycatchers around this falls area, but my finally photo was this Fresh water crab.

Fresh-Water-Crab

Some tourist caught this crab from the water flowing area & brought it to ground, we took some photo graphs & the crab made gestures like children do 😀 ( lift to carry) , we then quickly lifted it, released back to water & left for home.

  28 Responses to “Gulakmaale”

  1. Awesome Pictures as always… Tempted to go here again 🙂

  2. Wow! Stunning pics yet again, Saandip! Can’t believe it is Gulakmale! You make it look so beautiful!

  3. beautiful pics. keep shooting 🙂

  4. Cool pictures …..

  5. Excellent pics and a informative blog, thanks for sharing 🙂

  6. Awesome photos Saandip..Missing these trips.

  7. Thanks so much Krups 🙂 …

  8. Stunning images !! Especially the dried weed picture.

  9. some lovely images there Sandip…enjoyed them..
    though im not a birder…in the strict sense of the term..

  10. Sandeepa : Fantastic photos of beautiful place!! never heard about this place!! it’s time for your to enroll yourself in photography contest. Keep up the good work/hobby!!!

    Cheersu
    Suri

  11. WOOOOWWW photos as usual Saandip. I only wish you’d seen and photographed the Flame of the Forest as well, what wonderful images we’d have got!

  12. I must visit this place,superb shots,right timing,great job!!!

  13. Very crystal clear pics. good work….

  14. Hi!

    Lovely pictures you have here of Gulakmale. We went there last weekend but the lake was almost drying up. Didn’t see too many birds also, or maybe just our luck. I have written about it in my blog http://myworldfoodandtravel.blogspot.in/search/label/birding. Did you check out the falls in your subsequent trips?

  15. super cool!!

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