Yes ! Finally decided to have a dedicated website for myself and blog it there. So far the journey with Vignettesofthewild had been excellent. I would really wish if you could start following/subscribe to my new wordpress location.
Happy Birding !! Happy Clicking !!!
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Amboli, A place where the mist gently lifts to reveal the beauty of this hill station. My journey here was for 3 days and 2 nights with a group of nature lovers and we had nothing in our mind other than enjoying the bio-diversity of this less explored place. 710m Above Sea Level, it is one of the most undisturbed (claimed to be???) place.
Although summer is the best season to visit this place, I was brave enough to game the monsoon. I knew that the opportunity for photography was bleak, I still risked my camera in the rains. Of course with little rain protection gears. The risk was worth.
Reached Belgaum at 8:40 am had quick breakfast and got the bus to Amboli at 9am. Though the roads were damaged due to the constant traffic and non-stop rains, it was a fun. Did lots of birding from the bus and was enjoying how people get used to the constant rain and still manage to make farming for a living.
Quickly refreshed myself and was waiting for the other group to arrive from Mumbai. Had lunch and started our evening walk. We saw an amazing monster stick insect (more than 12cm). The ones that I have seen normally used to be small. This one was a giant one. The treks were easy to climb and all of our walks were on the tar road.
Just these walks yield so much of life beside the road itself. The night walks were amazing, with only a torch in hand, the rain god pouring on us and we looking for snakes, frogs, geckos and all. It’s an experience that I wont forget so easily.
I will leave it to you to enjoy the pictures and comment on it. I am planning for another trip in September (though the rains would have toned down a bit). It is a place that one has to visit in all four seasons to enjoy the true nature.
It is also heart wrenching to see people using the place as a major picnic spot, throwing beer cans, whisky bottles and all non-sense. It is also the ghat road which connects Belgaum and Vengurla. I guess the forest dept doesn’t care too much about this small place where the bio-diversity is higher than the people living there.
Rhacophorus malabaricus
Their web feet and disk like structures at the tip of the toe suggest that they are semi-aquatic and arboreal frogs. They build their nest on top of stagnant water and both male and female indulge in producing the froth. They lay eggs inside the froth. The eggs drip along with the froth during hatching process and becomes tadpole for which the stagnant water beneath helps to catch them. 
Tadpoles are black in color and as they grow they attain these bright green coloration.
Eryx Whitakeri
Whitaker’s Sand Boa
Pill bug (Armadillidium vulgare)
Art of Self-defence (Conglobation).Pill bug (Armadillidiidae family) are able to form their bodies into a ball shape when triggered by stimuli (pressure or vibrations) as self defence. This process is called Conglobation.
Malabar Pit Viper
Hemidactylus prashadi
Common name is ‘Bombay Leaf-toed Gecko‘ This is the Juv. Adult will look completely different in size and color .
I might have missed few things to report here, but here is a list.
Snakes
Whitaber’s Boa, Cat Snake, Malabar Pit Viper, Green Vine Snake.
Frogs/Toads
Malabar Gliding Frog, Bi-colored frog, wrinkled frog, Fejervarya, Indian Common Toad, Ramanella Species,
Slithers(other than snakes)
Fresh water eels, Yellow-striped Caecilian, Skinks, Prashadi Gecko, Banded Gecko, Dwarf Gecko, Centipedes, millipedes
Insects/Bugs/Beetles/Butterflies/Moths
Glow worm, Tortoise shell beetle, lady bird bug, pill bug, shield bug, tree/plant bug, Stick Insect, Praying Mantis, cicadas, Moths, caterpillars, Red Helen, Blue Mornon, White orange tip, Of course leeches.
Plants/herbs
Flowering of various orchids like Malaxis, Eria Dalzellii, Utricularia, Impatiens acaculis, Habenaria and the most exclusive Ceropegia lawaii (extinct species).
High-light of the trip: Ceropegia lawii & Bio-luminescent Fungii
Please check here for the entire collection and still being updated 
PS:
I am very happy to share with you all that I have started a program to create awareness with kids on Nature conservation, to show them the various forms of living things around us and educate them through Nature, re-establishing the connection with nature. Hence the name “Connect with Nature“. This program will help school kids to relate science through nature. CWN will focus on Nature walks for kids/adults, Photography course for kids/adults, tie-up with schools for nature walks. For more information, you can visit here.
Connect with Nature will be organizing a tour to Amboli in the month of Sept 17th – 19th (travel excluded). For more information, please see here
Limited seats left (note it will be a nature walk and not photography tour, though photography is allowed).
Tags: Connectwithnature, www.connectwithnature.in,Kesava, Amboli Ghat, Rain forest, Western Ghats
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Wife wanted to visit her mom’s place for a week and as soon as I heard her wish, I was dreaming about BRT, Bandipur or Kabini? did all my efforts to find out which is a better place. To my dismay, I heard that most of the places were raining heavily during that week. Cursed myself for the luck and was contemplating on other aspects of photography.
Tried my hands on Smoke Photography which I wanted to do for a long time. First day it was interesting and good time pass. Second day I got bored with the life-less creation. You can check the creation here.
Its been a long time since I did a macro shoot. Thought I will try it out. Took my bike and went to nearby Tulips resort road. Saw some interesting subjects but I should call it as a Fly-day . I saw so many varieties of Flies and was trying to photograph them.
The most interesting was the encounter with the “Robber”. It was hanging from a twig where capturing him through the camera was a difficult task. Tough it acted as if it was dead, the breeze played a spoil sport.
A Robber.
A Robber Fly
Intentionally shot with such a DOF to emphasis on the compound eye.
Compound Eye
Need an ID
Stick to your love
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It was time again for a visit to the jungles of Karnataka. This time I decided to go to Bandipur National Park from May 23rd to 25th. Bandipur NP is located in the Chamrajnagar district of southern Karnataka. After completing all the arrangements for my accommodation at JLR, Bandipur, I called my friend to check if he would be interested in joining me during the weekday for Bandipur. Without hesitation the answer that I got was “Yes”.
We were discussing on what are the locations that we can visit enroute Bandipur. We both were interested in capturing the Blue Tailed Bee Eaters as this was the perfect season to watch them. After few minutes we finalized our trip plan and came up with a different agenda.
Bangalore (5:30 am)-> Ramnagara (Watch Vultures) -> Ranganthittu Bird Sanctuary(RBS) -> Bandipur (2 nights and 3 days, 4 safari’s in total) -> Ranganthittu Bird Sanctuary -> Bangalore.
As we reached Ramnagara around 7am, we found 7 LBV (Long Billed Vultures) perched on the rocks quietly. It was an overcast cloudy day. The weather was chill and windy. We hanged around there for an hour, took some shots and landscapes of Ramnagara.
Gyps indicus
Indian Vulture popping out.
Threskiornis melanocephalus
Black Headed Ibis
Anastomus oscitans
Asian Open Bill Stork
Had a good time in RBS. Tried to shoot some against the light but didn’t succeed. It was too hot and we decided to proceed to Bandipur so as to not miss our lunch there We had our formalities done, pushed ourselves in the room and quickly charged our batteries.
We kept our expectations on the sightings to near zero as the weather was cloudy and we expected rain. We took our first safari on May 23rd which was evening safari.
Saw this Blue Beard Bee Eater beautifully perched on the blossomed bamboo tree.
Blue Beard Bee Eater
Saw the other common mammals like Langur, Indian Boar, Spotted Deers, Sambhar Deer. Suddenly it was too windy and a unique call emerged from the top of the tree. It was first time for me to hear that call. It was a call of Changeable Hawk Eagle. We couldn’t photograph it. We moved on as it started raining and within 10 mins it stopped. I thought its going to be a no-sighting day even for birds, but was happy that we can see the lush green forest after a shower.
As we were proceeding on a steep road, I got to see a Leopard crossing the road in a jiffy. I spotted it first due to the vantage point that I had in the jeep. I immediately informed the driver about the Leopard and asked him to go slow and stop. It crossed the road so fast and didn’t fail to stop before vanishing. It was looking away from us and thats when I got this shot.
Leopard
It just went inside the bush and I told myself ‘Oh God, What a sight it was’. My first Leopard sighting. Our jeep driver did an excellent tracking and he went ahead, we all were confused on his sudden move. He went to the end of the road and waited there for few minutes. We couldn’t see the cat, driver said, we are going to wait here for sometime. By the time two other jeeps came in one ahead us and other behind. They sensed we are waiting for some big cat. 5 mins past, 10 mins past, slowly we could see something moving in the bush.
This huge male was very careful in taking each step, couldn’t hear any kind of sound when he moved. He then slowly popped out of the bush just to see those three jeeps. He quickly climbed the tree and gave good 2 mins for us. Marked his territory , rubbed himself against the tree trunk and jumped to next tree and got down in a flash. It was an amazing sighting we had in Bandipur.
Leopard - Peek-a-boo
The Majestic Leopard
We were happy to spot a cat during such conditions, again we were proved wrong by the nature, you never know what you are being offered. Its pure luck.
We started our next morning safari with same kind of situation. It was pretty much calm, silent safari that we had. I would rather say, it was a Peacock safari. We saw so many Peacock’s than anything else. I tried against the golden light few shots.
Golden light Peacock
We saw few jeeps waiting and got to know about the alarm calls, our same jeep driver, didn’t stop anywhere and went ahead. Same confused look on our faces, but this time with a confidence that he knows what he is doing. We stopped at a place with good vantage point.
Our friend Chirdeep was shooting some warblers on the near by bush and suddenly from the view-finder he saw a tiger entering the frame. I will leave it to your imagination of what kind of experience that would be. He slowly said, Gowri .. A tigress who had given birth 5 months ago. She has a litter of 4.
I was searching for her as she walked behind our jeep. It should be less than 15ft distance, we started clicking, she didn’t care to look at us. Her cubs were not to be seen.
A Tigress
Our luck continued. We came back happy and was thinking whether to go to GS betta or to drive on the Bandipur -> Masinagudi road to try our luck.
We decided to go on the Bandipur -> Masinagudi road and kept the GS Betta visit for next day after the check-out from JLR on the way to Mysore.
Eyes of the Forest
We got to see only Langur’s on the side of the road.
The first two safari’s it was raining cats and but not dogs. The remaining two safaris it literally rained. We wanted to use this to shoot some Chital’s shots.
Spotted Deer Shedding of his extra weight
Our safari’s were done and we packed for Mysore. As per the plan, we decided to visit GS Betta. It was windy, after rain and cloudy. As we reached the top and parked our vehicles, we were stunned by the beauty of the grassland forest in front of us with Elephants grazing happily. What more you can ask. It was a real heaven’s corridor. We kept clicking with different perspectives and one here for your eyes.
Corridor of heaven - A cute little family
I dedicate the above image to my wife and my sweet son, with out their support, I would have not gone out and experienced the same.
We left GS Betta full of images and memories. Had lunch at Kamat in Mysore and did a quick stop again at RBS. Light too harsh, tried some flight shots.
Reached Bangalore at around 7:45pm with loads of pictures and fresh memories in mind. What a delightful trip it was!!
I would be really happy if JLR tries to change the Jeep’s sitting arrangement. Kabini Safari vehicles are better than Bandipur. Its cramped and more than 5 people is a bad idea on the rear side.
Comments and critiques are always appreciated.
More pictures can be seen here.
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A very quite, serene village in the western-ghats which is cut-off from the city life and which is one of the hotspots of the bio diversities in India. Yes its Agumbe, evergreen rainforest which was in my “to visit” places. Did some research on internet which pointed again to Amogh’s website. Initially it was a solo trip, I asked my colleague who immediately accepted and brought his friend also to the group.
Around 370kms from Bangalore, you have KSRTC bus to Agumbe which starts at 10pm and reaches there by morning. I quickly made a booking for first week of September 2010 for 3 and also made registration with ARRS for dormitory for 3. Reached on time, we asked the shop on the bus stand for ARRS and auto, he said its 10 min walk and auto’s are available only after 8 am. It was slightly drizzling and we decided to walk slowly.
It was a good walk and by the time we reached ARRS, the rain almost started pouring. We took shelter under a big tree which didnt help us from the downpour. We dashed quickly inside ARRS fully wet. I just managed to keep my camera bag dry but dropped my other bag which had all my cloths on a drain. What more you can expect, it was full of leeches and my cloths were wet inside the bag. Took 30 mins to just make it leech free . Leech bites were free of cost there :p
Agumbe Rainforest Research Station
We were welcomed by Chetana, who briefed us about the agenda for next two days. It was mostly be-on-your-own kind of agenda.
Obviously for me, it was an opportunity to do lots of macros. We were also hoping to see the King. We learnt that summer is the best time to spot a King, more than that its your luck , if you are destined to see it, you will. I should accept two days is not enough to explore this place. I guess I need another visit during peak monsoon.
I will mostly make this post with more pictures than words.
A hopper
Calotes rouxii or otherwise called as Roux’s Forest Lizard. This is a Juv of the species. Amazing texture and great blend on the forest floor. They were everywhere. Had a great time with these fellas.
I had the opportunity to shoot a Green Vine snake hunting a frog at lightning speed.
Malabar Pit Viper
Blue eyed frog(Philautus neelanethrus)
Philautus ponmudi
I was told that this is a rare frog called “Philautus ponmudi“. I would appreciate if somebody confirm on the ID.
Mesobuthus hottentotta
Bicolored Frog
A flower from Agumbe
Wild flower on the forest floor
A plasticky flower
A plasticky flower
As usual comments and critiques please. More pictures from Agumbe is here.
Hope you enjoyed the pictures.
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It was 24th of December 2010. Myself and couple of friends planned to try our hands on macros. Our destination was TG Halli which is close to South Bangalore. It was a cold morning, the sun was yet to be seen on the horizon. The lake/reservoir was misty and visibility was just for 5-10 ft.
We got down from the car and gave ourselves some time to enjoy the misty cold morning. Our eyes automatically locked on the dew drops on the grass. We decided not step on any of them and carefully started looking out for anything that is interesting for macro photography such as butterflies, damselflies and dragon flies.
There were Egrets looking so great in that misty condition, Herons busy looking for food and Brahminy Kites fishing.
We got some beautiful butterflies and dragon flies. Macro photography is a workout – you have got to do lots of squatting and push-ups to get to the subject and not to forget the size of the subject and the minimum focusing distance that the lens demands to have a magnification. At the end the result pays off.
One heavily decorated butterfly
A Dragon Fly
A Caterpillar
Damsel Fly
I also wanted to do some monotone pictures with these beauties.
Nature's Pearls
Ganesh H Shankar has always been an inspiration for many and I am not an exclusion. I love all of his creations, he has really redefined wild-life photography or rather nature photography as an art. Have seen one of his creation and it was always in my mind to capture it. I did my best.
A butterfly in a monochrome with dew drops.
Inspiration
Mine is not comparable to Ganesh’s masterpiece.
We had a good time shooting these beautiful creatures. As the dew drops slowly disappeared when the sun popped out from the clouds, all these beauties took to the air.
We were blessed.
Critiques are welcomed.
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I have heard my friends describing the beauty of the forest of Kabini which is in the southern fringes of the Nagarhole National Park
where the wild-life is in abundance for a nature lover. I use to imagine myself when they describe about their experience and was too eager
to visit the heaven whenever the time permitted. After 2 years, I got a chance to visit Kabini on first week of March 2011. I asked few of my friends if they are willing to join me but nobody was interested as I was traveling on weekday.
Finally booked my accommodation in JLR Kabini River Lodge, Kabini for March 2nd, 3rd and 4th of 2011. My plan was to leave Bangalore early (around 5am) -> Ranganthittu -> Kabini -> Bangalore. As per my plan, reached Ranganthittu at 6:30am sharp. Two more photographers joined the ride.
Had a good time photographing few beauties in opposite light as well. Pied Kingfisher giving poses, Swallow’s, Spoonbill, Crocs, Intermediate Egrets, Openbill storks, Pelicans, Darters, Fruit bats, Stork-Billed Kingfishers, Peacocks.
Night Heron against Sun
A Mugger relaxing on the rock
Left Ranganthittu at around 10:30 for Kabini. On the way to Kabini through HD Kote road, spotted common coots, Spot Billed Ducks and enjoyed the solo drive till Kabini. Reached exactly for lunch and to my surprise a voice calling me and asking “You came without even telling me??” I just turned around to see my guru-g Mr.Karthikeyan from JLR. When he said he will be in JLR till March 5th I was relieved of my loneliness. Soon met Chirdeep , Amoghavarsha and got formally introduced as we were only facebook friends and NTP’ites.
March 2nd Evening Safari
I had excellent tea and some biscuits provided by JLR and took the evening safari. It was my first ever safari in the forests. From JLR to the forest gate, it’s a 7-8 mins ride and I couldn’t wait more.The forest were dry and trees were leafless. I was thrilled as it gave perfect opportunity to spot and photograph a leopard with a chital kill on the barks of those trees. Yes, I was asking for more .
As we entered after signing in the record book, we got to see the Crested Serpent Eagle. It was against the light to photograph, but we just enjoyed it and moved on.
We had sightings of birds and heard of Elephants that came near the river for some water. Had spent good time with a pair of small blue kingfisher with fishes trying to feed its chicks(may be). They were going in and out of their nest. We heard alarm calls of chintals and moved from there towards the direction and did not find anything and missed photographing the Changeable Hawk Eagle 
Elephant scape
March 3rd Morning Safari
I don’t have words to describe this safari in particular. It was about 6 am already and I was up and ready by 5:45 am itself, waiting near the gate for my allocation of JLR safari vehicle. I got to know who are going to be my partners for that safari. Waited for my guru-g to arrive and we left JLR at around 6:05am. Nobody uttered a single word for sometime. We all were enjoying the breezy ride that morning, it was cold though.
I just prayed to god to show some mercy for a tiger sighting. We arrived at the safari road, one more jeep was ahead of us and they were trying to open the gate. It was just two of this jeep and they went in first and stopped for us to cross over to close the gate. We didn’t wait for them and we moved ahead. We saw a heard of India Gaur and We all agreed not to stop there for photo.
We just kept going slowly, Amogh slowly whispered “Tiger on the band of the small lake”. My heart was beating fast to see it first. I saw it and tried to see through my camera and lost her. We slowly moved and got a good glimpse of her, though she was far away. She got up and started disappearing inside those thick bushes.
Tiger ...
We all exchanged our smiles and kept moving in search of her. Our jeep driver was tracking her prowl. After a minute, we again spotted her standing and looking directly at us. If I really want to describe it, it would be heart pounding experience to have an eye contact directly with a tiger. She sat facing opposite to us and was watching her habitat.
20 minutes passed, she was just sitting without any movement. We were waiting for some drama to unfold, suddenly she jumped and ran towards prey may be chitals, there were so many alarm calls and cries for a minute, then the whole jungle got its silence back as if nothing happened there.
It was an unsuccessful hunt.
We moved hoping to see her again.
I decided to take boat safari in the evening to try my luck on the river side. It was a different experience on the river side, we saw the unusual Reef Heron which took off in front of us. Guru-g said, its unusual to see them in the inlands. Missed photographing my fav raptor, Osprey. It flew off as we approached near her.
March 4th Morning Safari
I prayed again the same way I did the previous day hoping for some luck. Till the fag-end of our safari, we didn’t find anything. I was scanning on top of the trees for leopards, bushes for tigers but no luck. As it is written in Corbett, “Dont worry if you have not seen a tiger, but the tiger has seen you” It is quite possible that a tiger would have watched us passing by.
Meeting of the Rivals
As we were about to wrap our safari, we stopped for ID’ng a call of a bird or something like that, on our left side of the road, not far away, we saw a pair of common mynas perched. In less than 30 secs, a babbler flew out of the hole and the mynas raided the nest and in just 2 secs, I could see the myna picking up blue egg of the babbler. I could see from my camera that it is indeed damaging the eggs, the contents spilling out, one of the myna started flying and dropped the egg just 2-3 ft away from the nest.
Local Dadagiri's
An extract from Karthik’s blog about this wonderful event is as below.
“Mynas, being secondary hole nesters, are known to regularly evict birds from their nest and occupy them. But this incident, where they even destroyed the egg and carried it away was interesting. Whether the mynas evicted the babbler to nest there themselves or simply to feed on the egg could not be ascertained.”
With all these wonderful events, I left JLR and headed back to the concrete jungle in Bangalore.
Birds:
CSE
Kingfisher (small blue,stork billed,white throated)
Shikra
White Rumped Shama
Wooly necked stork
Jungle Owlet
Changeable Hawk Eagle
Chestnut tailed starling
Jungle Myna
Indian Rollers
Racket-tailed drongo
greater adjutant
Plum-headed Parakeets
Rose-ringed Parakeets
Green Imperial Pigeon
Osprey
Darter
Egrets
Reef Heron
Grey Junglefowl
Grey Heron
Streak throated woodpecker
Other Common birds
Mammals
Malabar Giant Squirel
Elephants
Indian Gaur
Wild Boar
Sambhar Deer
Chitals
Langurs
Tiger
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Myself, Arvind and Basker started at 8 am on the “Good Friday” weekend this year in search of the beautiful migratory bird called “Flamingo”. Reached after few stop overs for shooting Spotted Owls, Painted Storks and other common ones on the way to Annamalacherry. The highlight was the unexpected sighting of White-eyed Buzzard on the way. It had 3 chicks on its nest and the male WEB was guarding the nest. We took our camera and fired 2 shots to capture the bird which was sitting away from the nest. It sensed us and flew away.
At around 10am reached the “chery/Kuppam” which was overlooking the lake. Quickly parked our vehicle as crowd started to gather around our car. We were asked so many questions on our presence with the cameras? Few boatmen were aware of these kind of people and they started their business to offer a ride for us to take near the birds. But we were determined to convey them what we were looking for.
Even for the native people like us, it was quite a challenging job to explain to them the bird that we were looking to shoot. We showed the pics of Flamingos from Arvind’s iPhone. They confirmed its locally called as “Garwa”, it is otherwise called as Poo-Narai in Tamil as per Wikipedia.
We bargained and hired a boat. From the shore, we spotted lots of waders including Kentish plovers, Black-tailed godwits, etc. Illavarasan and Gobi pointed us to a location where it looked like flamingo’s. It was far to even see it properly with naked eyes. We waited for few minutes for diesel to arrive. Took off and after few minutes on our left side, I spotted a group of flamingo’s (mostly a family) sleeping in that hot sun. They sleep with one leg , rest their neck on their body and hide their face inside the wings… I wonder how much strength they have to just stand on one leg, which is tough for humans (even saints) to stand for a long period of time. I asked the boat to stop for few mins to have a clear view through my equipment. As we confirmed the ID, we asked if there is a possibility to go near them. They looked more human friendly. We took a detour and reached little close to the group.
It was a nose shadow (11:50am) sun and the light was just on top of us. I thought of making the pictures of the birds with its habitat and used the distance to compose few shots. The clouds were amazing that day luckily. We quickly moved from that place and decided to go near a huge flock of flamingos on the shore of Andhra side. After few mins, we were informed that the boat wont proceed further as it had hit the swamp.
We decided to walk on the swamp and believe me it was a hectic walk and tiresome walk that I had so far. I was telling my fella’s how bad was the idea of not bringing a water bottle along with us. As we approached the huge flock decided to move. It was so easy a walk for the beauties in that sluggish swamp.
It must be a flock of few hundreds, after I took some eye-level shot, they started to take off. It was just like a pink carpet that was flying. After nearly walking 2 kms on the swamp, we decided to check other side of the same shore. Found few waders, heron’s etc. We started to walk again in the swamp to reach the boat.
Saw a crab (ID not known) which was just still under that clear water and the fishermen warned me about its presence. He said, it will easily cut your finger with its pincers. He also let us know how they catch crabs and sell them in the market.
I noticed few thin transparent sacs and asked those fishermen about its identity, came to know that they are the egg sacs of prawn. If successfully hatched, it would be in thousands of prawn coming out of that sac. He just picked one for me and showed the internals of the sac. So many tiny small dots embryo in that sac.
We returned to the shore with loads of pictures. Even though we were surrounded by water which we couldn’t drink, we were so thirsty that our eyes were automatically looking for soft drinks shop around.
It was a wonderful and fruitful trip that we had. It wouldn’t be possible for me to venture out and have such an experience without the support from my wonderful wife. Thanks to her too.
Your comments and critiques are appreciated. Help me to improve, I can take some harsh critiques.
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Aspiring to become a naturalist.
For everything there is a first time. Yes, I decided to blog at last on May 5th 2011. I always Wanted to share some of my experience in the wild for like minded and interested persons. It might not necessarily in a National Parks Safari, most of it would be in and around the city where we all live.
There are so many beautiful things around us that nature gives us every day. Its our call to go out and enjoy it. When ever time permits I venture out to such places mainly for birding, spotting small insects, enjoying the landscapes and as well documenting through my camera.
I will try to keep my blog updated as far as possible. Your comments and critiques are always appreciated.
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Bangalore,
Karnataka
India
