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Sometimes, things can be very unpredictable. Last saturday, when we went to Nandi Hills we hardly saw any regulars. Until a few weeks ago, we had kept wondering on why the warblers and the Indian Blue Robins were still around. But this time, they had all gone back. There were Indian Scimitar-babblers in groups calling out loudly, the active ( Read more... )

I feel in love with the butterflies of Assam. I clicked as many I could and here is a commoner from Kaziranga National Park. And thanks to Karthik for helping me with the identification.


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We were trekking to the Tadiyandamol peak. It was hot and we had trekked a bit. It was thick everygreen forest everywhere. Suddenly we see a large raptor soaring. From one look, it looked like a Booted Eagle. We watched it for a while and went ahead with the trek. After a while, on the same path we saw the same bird taking off from the ground. We ( Read more... )

This was really the bird which I badly wanted to see. Malagar Trogons are not early morning birds. So we finished our breakfast after our first round of birding and walked back mainly looking for this bird. We looked around in the wooded area carefully but didn’t yield any success. For a while we heard the Trogon calling but we were not able to ( Read more... )

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During the last 2 visits to Nandi Hills, I have found this bird hopping around in the nursery area. They are so restless. They don’t seem to be bothered by people around. They continue with their business while we sit and watch them at work.


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Pallas’s Fish Eagle is probably on everybody’s wishlist. It is also not a very difficult bird to see there. But we were quite unlucky to get a good luck at this majestic raptor. We had multiple sightings but nothing very close. At one point it was just sitting behind us and none of us noticed it until it took off. The pics here are from the eastern ( Read more... )