Feb 1st 2014: It is time for the annual bird race at Rishi Valley, and my husband and I are the adult visitors, along with a gaggle of excited little kids. Our 12th standard son towers over them amusedly, too cool to be so animated about anything!
We birded for a few hours on Saturday, and returned to do a few more hours on Sunday morning, and enjoyed the walks and the crisp, cool air, the company and of course the birds.
The roosting night jar, the flycatcher in full plumage, a short-toed snake eagle circling above and the Verditer flycatcher were my highlights. And oh yes the trio of owlets that looked down on us.
The enormous wood spider needed a better camera but the iphone did justice to the bougainvilla and the mango flowers.
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| Spot the Nightjar! |
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| Spotting my first mango flowers of the season |
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| As we searched for the Baya weavers I found these. |
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| Do you see a huge wood spider in the middle, feasting on a grasshopper? |
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| A common leopard butterfly suns itself |
We hope to be back next year, though the shortage of water looms over the campus.
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