Thursday, September 26, 2024
Sholinganallur/Perumbakkam Marshlands
Thursday, September 19, 2024
Fluttered by
It was a different feeling from 2019 - final resting place.
Hypolimnas bolina, the great eggfly - female |
Typically, the Great Eggfly underside has more white...so here is another morph then. |
Friday, September 13, 2024
Greeted by a peacock!
Crossing the canal, filled with water hyacinth and a whole flock of cattle get, with many in breeding plumage. |
I was happy to see the trees all grown and green! The Crepe Myrtles and Arjuna's were in fruit, the Palash was in abundant green as also the Garlic Pear tree - in March, it was in flower. the Mimusops was in fruit. Has it been so long since I visited?
17th March 2024 - Crateva adinsonii - had dropped all its leaves, and a few flowers stood out, in full glory. |
Quite appropriately, the peacock flowers were in bloom |
Monday, September 9, 2024
Hairy Caterpillar on the drumstick tree
8th September - Tree 1 5pm. Not much movement seen. |
9th September Tree 2 - they were alive and one the move. Seemed smaller than the other tree caterpillars. I could not locate the caterpillars on Tree 1. |
Looks like both sets of Caterpillars are on one tree now! |
Hairy Caterpillars on one trunk and a bark gecko on the other. |
The caterpillars looked worn and scruffy.
24 Aug 2024 - Muttukadu Backwaters morning
Stop at the main bridge
A house crow showering
An egret in plumage breeding
Two wagtails hurrying
Three spoonbills flypasting
Four Painted Storks huddling
Five Pelicans swimming
Six terns a-turning
A cloud of cormorants moving
And four birders in a very good mood!
Sanjiv and Chitra birding
Umesh joins and does the wowing
Whimbrels and Curlews stalking
Sagarika Thick Knee Spotting
Cat's Claw flowers dazzling
Fiddler Crabs emerging
White browed bulbuls calling
And six birders in a very jolly mood!
Walls and boards, alarming
A sandpiper scurrying
Curlew - meditating
We - a tidal pool discovering
Girdled Horn Snails in slow motion moving
A HUGE Brown Land Crab side-stepping
Many barnacles rock clinging
Other crabs just scooting
Sandwiches a-chomping
And nine birders in a very happy mood!
A Peregrine and Woodpeckers - a nice start for my birding year
Jan 1st Ebird list with Vismaya, the peregrine. E-bird list with the Flamebacks I have not been birding much this last fortnight of Decembe...
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9th August 2014. 9 kms the board said, to Sarnath, but it was a bit more than that. It is 11 am and my buddies are still not ready. ...
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On our recent visit to the Sundarbans, we saw several of these large crocodiles basking in the sun, including some baby ones. I marvelled a...