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Category: Conservation

Birds, Conservation, Lakes7 Comments
Green Bee-eaters at Doddanekundi Lake

Doddanekundi Lake – A birder’s journal

June 18, 2020June 17, 2020 Praveen Tangirala

Starting in 2016, Praveen Tangirala has kept a close eye on Doddanekundi Lake, the large wetland in his neighbourhood that hosts a wealth of bird life. Besides the obvious delights that birding at the lake brings, he is also wary of the environmental threats that endanger its fragile but resilient ecology. Continue reading Doddanekundi Lake – A birder’s journal

Arun, Bird Behaviour, Birds, Conservation, Lakes, On the wing, Trip ReportsLeave a comment

Mangalajodi – birds and serenity in a winter wetland

April 14, 2018 Arun

Mangalajodi in Odisha is not just a winter birding hotspot. To the passionate birder, this is a place of pilgrimage. Besides the opportunity to watch a number of species at extremely close quarters with minimum intrusion, it offers something else — serenity Continue reading Mangalajodi – birds and serenity in a winter wetland

Beej, Bird Behaviour, Birds, Lakes2 Comments
Kasavanahalli Lake Winter Birding 2018

Backyard Birding Notes from Kasavanahalli Lake in winter

January 10, 2018January 9, 2018 Beej

Winter has come to Bengaluru’s Kasavanahalli Lake but the migrants are slow to arrive. A few sandpipers here, a few wagtails there and the odd Warbler or Ashy Drongo or two. It’s a slow start to winter birding in 2018 Continue reading Backyard Birding Notes from Kasavanahalli Lake in winter

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Tadoba Diaries – At work with Tiger Mother Choti Tara

May 13, 2017 Andy

Hunting, teaching her cubs to hunt, protecting them, and guarding her prey base from competition… for Choti Tara, being a tiger mother is a full-time job. A day out with the resident queen of Jamni grassland in Tadoba and her royal twins Continue reading Tadoba Diaries – At work with Tiger Mother Choti Tara

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Great black-backed gull

Birding at Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge – A Photographer’s Diary

April 2, 2017 Sandy

The ebb of winter is a fine time for birders. At Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge, a nature photographer has a field day. Here’s a page from his diary Continue reading Birding at Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge – A Photographer’s Diary

Beej, Birds, Featured, Lakes1 Comment
Winter Birding - Seasonal migrants like Rosy Starlings add some panache

Winter birding – it isn’t over until it’s over

March 7, 2016 Beej

Visiting the same location time and again has been the secret of this year’s winter birding escapades. It’s March but the migrants are still here. Among this week’s surprises was a flock of Garganey, wintering ducks from Europe that I have observed at Kaikondrahalli for the first time Continue reading Winter birding – it isn’t over until it’s over

Beej, Birds, Lakes5 Comments

Backyard Birding – Kaikondrahalli and Kasavanahalli

February 13, 2016 Beej

This is the weekend of the Great Backyard Bird Count. All of 64 species from two neighbourhood lakes. Not bad for a morning’s backyard birding! Continue reading Backyard Birding – Kaikondrahalli and Kasavanahalli

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Fading Glow

Cary Glen – Images of a lovely North Carolina lake

January 27, 2016January 26, 2016 Sandy

Cary Glen in North Carolina has little cosmic significance. It is a little lake in a little town. But nature thrives here, and it provides a much-needed escape from life’s machinations Continue reading Cary Glen – Images of a lovely North Carolina lake

Animal Behaviour, Arun, Birds, Conservation, Encounter, Featured, Mammals, Tiger, Travelogues1 Comment
Tiger, tiger!

Three days in Corbett

December 7, 2015December 24, 2015 Arun

Three days in Corbett National Park and Arun Menon returns with a bushel full of lifers… and the sighting of his life leaves us burning bright – with envy! Continue reading Three days in Corbett

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Skies threaten of a storm

Chasing a Sunset

September 16, 2015September 13, 2015 Sandy

When a sunset that seemed improbable only a moment ago bloodies the sky, it becomes the fulcrum balancing idle desolation and mad euphoria. A photographic meditation Continue reading Chasing a Sunset

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