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Corbet ,Sattal and Pangot Pictures ( April 2014)

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Asian Brown Flycatcher Asian Paradise Flycatcher Black Bulbul Black Lored Tit Bue Tailed Bee-eater Blue Winged Minla Cat Chestnut Bellied Nuthatch Common Kingfisher Great Barbet Green Backed Tit Green Bee-eater Grey Treepie Kalij Pheasant (female) Kalij Pheasant (male) Kalij Pheasant (male) Oriental Magpie Robin Peacock Red Billed Leiothrix Rufous Sibia Rufous Sibia Scene Steppe Eagle Steppe Eagle Verditer-Flycatcher Verditer Flycatcher White Throated Laughing Thrush Wood pecker

A CULTURAL EXCURSION TO HAMPI

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Our trip to Hampi began on 29th June a Friday night . I was going with two other classmates and my History teacher Kanchen ma’am. We all met up at the International Knowledge Center (IKC) headquarters on Millers Road, Bangalore. While we were waiting for the bus, the two members from the IKC introduced themselves .Their names where Ashok and Jen. We  waited in the bus for the others who were from University of Connecticut and Missouri to show up .We left by 10 30 pm and ten minutes later  nearly everyone was fast asleep .I could not sleep till 12 o'clock and just as I dozed off a tissue paper roll fell on me and jolted me awake . By 1 o'clock I had fallen to sleep only to wake up 7 am when we reached Hampi. Morning Session, Hampi (Saturday 29th June) Introduction When we reached Hampi the place we were staying did not have rooms ready for all of us. So they allowed us to freshen up at the nearby guest house. By the time we finished freshening up we had all got a ro

Eaglenest a natures gift

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Nameri national park- Eaglenest wildlife sanctuary -Kaziranga national park My father is an avid bird photographer and I accompanied him on his  trip to Eaglenest in April  2013. Day 1 We reached Guwahati before schedule with excess baggage as this was a ten day trip, we ended up packing more clothes to cover any problems. Our driver and guide were waiting for us. We went straight to the Guwahati municipal garbage dump to photograph the  Greater and Lesser Adjutant Stork. The odour and sights were terrible. We managed to hold our breath for a couple of hours for some great photographs. We then went to a restaurant outside Guwahati to get lunch. Everyone but I was unable to eat. The drive to Nameri was good except for the last 10 km which was on dirt road . We stayed at a place called Jia Bhoroli Wild Resort.  There we met up with my uncle another keen photographer who would join us on our trip to Eaglenest.      Day 2 We were all up by dawn s