Posted in Birding, bangalore, bird photography, bird watching, photography, wildlife, tagged bangalore, bird watching, Birding, copper smith barbett chick, GKVK campus, jakkur lake, pied kingfisher, pied kingfisher hovering, UAS campus, yellow wattled lapwing on June 13, 2009 | 26 Comments »
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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Posted in Birding, Karnataka, bird photography, bird watching, photography, wildlife, tagged bannerghatta, Bannerghatta national park, BNP, JLR, jlrntp, jungle lodges and resorts, naturalist, ntp, wildlife, wildlife photography on April 22, 2009 | 11 Comments »
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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Posted in Birding, India, bangalore, bird photography, bird watching, photography, travel, wildlife, tagged bangalore, bangalore bird race, bannerghatta, bird race 2009, bird watching, Birding, BNP, butterfly, Byrasandra, Byrasandra lake, hsbc bird race, indian bird race, Kanakapura, Kanakapura road, Madivala, Madivala lake, Madiwala, valley school on January 19, 2009 | 16 Comments »
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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Posted in Birding, India, bangalore, bird watching, wildlife, tagged bangalore, bird race, bird race 2009, bird watching, Birding, birds, hsbc bird race, indian bird race, pittas on January 16, 2009 | 6 Comments »
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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Posted in Birding, adventure, bird watching, photography, travel, tagged bird watching, Birding, birds, Cauvery, Cauvery Fishing Camp, Cunchi falls, Galibore, Muthathi, photography, Sangam on October 3, 2008 | 34 Comments »
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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Posted in Birding, bangalore, bird watching, photography, travel, tagged bangalore, Birding, Canon EOS 450D, photography, valley school on August 24, 2008 | 35 Comments »
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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This had to happen some time, and it did on today. Woke up at 5:30am and was ready go soon. Left my house by around 6:15 am, after the guy who had to pick me up got a little delayed. The traffic on the Tumkur road NH-4 highway isn’t all that good even that [...]
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