Lalbagh flower show 2009

The biannual flower show at Lalbagh botanical gardens started on 7th August. I did a quick visit today morning. The focus was bird waching and hence reached there by about 6:30am. Walked around the lotus pond, and lake till about 9:30am. Then, went to the glass house.
Crowd had gathered near the Glass house, and barged [...]

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Birding at GKVK/UAS campus and Jakkur lake

I joined Shreeram, Vineet, and Gopal from NTP for a quick trip to GKVK campus for bird watching today morning. Prem also accompanied us. It turned out to be a great outing with some excellent sightings.

I reached the GKVK/UAS campus by 6:30am, parked my car near Ganesha temple and started looking for birds. All i [...]

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Trip around country side

I have really been sweating this summer, more so at work. Still, I did manage to attend NTP on the last weekend of March. Three weeks later, made a trip to a village near Hassan for a wedding. Wedding trip turned out to be a great one, for birding and visiting historical monuments.
Anyone driving to [...]

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JLR Naturalist Training Program

I remember a colleague asking ‘Who’s a Naturalist?’ when one other colleague told us that he was invited by a popular wildlife photographer to work as a naturalist (the authenticity of which is not worth exploring). Answer to this question was what first answered in the Naturalist Training Program, which i attended from March 27-29, [...]

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Ranganathittu bird sanctuary trip

Located at a distance of 125km from Bangalore, Ranganathittu bird sanctuary is one of the most popular bird sanctuaries in India. Large number of migratory birds arrive here during winter from across the world.
My plan of visiting this place was to shoot a supermodel of Ranganathittu, the Pied Kingfisher. Almost everyone who has been to [...]

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Bangalore Bird Race 2009 – report

The post event meet of Bangalore Bird Race 2009 personally, for me, was the best place, where i spotted some really rare species. I was overwhelmed to see and meet some great naturalists, and bird watchers like S Karthikeyan and Deepa Mohan, whom i had known only through net, and some of the best [...]

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Bangalore Bird Race 2009

I had heard a lot, and I have been waiting long time for this (less than a year of course, otherwise i’d have written about BBR 2008). The time has finally come. HSBC Bangalore Bird Race 2009 is on 18th January 2009, and i am excited to be participate in my first bird race, the [...]

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Birding trip – Galibore, Cunchi Falls, and Muthathi

I was awake by 4am, even before the alarm went off. I’ve got this strange sleeping habit (sleeping disorder?). I sleep at 2 am some days, wake up at 6:30am. I hit the bed by 12:30am, but wide awake till about 5am, and up again by 7:30am. Rarely, of late, i get to sleep till [...]

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Valley School birding trip

Last Sunday along with Shashank and Arun of BWS, I went for my first bird photography trip on Kanakapura road, around Valley school campus. There were lots of birds. Robins, Munias, Bulbuls and many more, that i can’t identify as yet, were around. Early on we couldn’t get good shots even with Shashank’s 100-400mm + [...]

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Lalbagh flower show

Lalbagh botanical garden of royal origin was my weekend photography stop. Lalbagh probably has the most diversified collection of trees and plants of any botanical garden in the world. The huge botanical garden, spread over 240 acres, in the heart of the city has over 1800 species of flora. A lake inside the garden [...]

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