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Wednesday, June 01, 2005

Birding Bannerghatta 

Last Sunday (29/5) we had a fantastic birding outing at Bannerghatta National Park. This 4th Sunday outing was graciously organized by S. Karthikeyan who also obtained permission to walk inside the Herbivore Safari enclosure.

The weather was fantastic, not too hot to enjoy the three and a half hour walk along the roads. We had good birds, an extremely close encounter with a curiously tame Sambhar, a close encounter with a massive bull Gaur, sightings of a Chital, a family of Gaur, two Muggers in the tanks in the enclosure enjoying the morning sun and a bull Elephant on a hillock outside the stone wall and electric fence boundary of the park. This elephant, reportedly called Rowdy Ranga, was a tusker and looked in the prime of life (apparently he was captured later and is being translocated someplace).

Each of the about forty people who attended paid 50 bucks to the FD.
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