The Checkered Keelback caught in the Fisherman's net in Badkal on Saturday. Although we managed to persuade the men not to kill the snake and paid for the net...
Is this Scarlet Minivet? I doubt since the throat isn't black, as Salim Ali's book shows, for both Scarlet & Long tailed Minivet. Not a good picture, though....
One of the many streams in the Western Ghats, which overflow during the rains. -- Suresh V - sureshsv[@.]freeshell.org SDF Public Access Unix System - NetBSD...
Hi Suresh, Seems like a very interesting bird. The closest match appears to be a female Small Minivet, but there are features which like colour richness and...
Hi Sumit, Kooke Subramanya is a temple town, off the Bangalore-Mangalore highway, some 75 kms before Mangalore. I've never been to the town as such, but...
... A shot from a previous trip to the same place(2 months back). This is how the place looks. -- Suresh V - sureshsv[@.]freeshell.org SDF Public Access Unix...
This little bird was bold enough to attack my flash unit.. not once but thrice.. and I am so dumbfounded that I missed a chance of taking a shot of the bird...
A walk along the tarred road near the Nature Camp gifted us with the sighting of this beautiful fellow. Unfortunately there was no sign of its better half...
A lovely morning in B.R Hills.. Enjoying the sunrise over the distant hillside...when Ameen Ahmed attracted our attention to this yellow gold. Enjoy Atanu ...
hi all, i have finally managed to save some money to buy myself a digital camera. the problem now is that im confused with the various brands and photographic...
Good to know about the durability of our memory cards. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3939333.stm Sudhir -- Sudhir Shivaram http://www.thejunglelook.com...
... from the man made problems itself.. like obsolence of the technology itself.. Just like we don't get to find one single harddrive to read our 5 1/4"...
... Great to know that our CF cards should last a long time, and are rock solid. I'm just a bit worried about the frequent plugging in and removing the CF...
... Good CF cards should also stand something like 100000 write cycles. And most likely other stuffs will break much before it. Yes me too worried about the CF...
Here are a couple of more shots of the same bird. Giridhar Cavale pointed out that it is most likely juvenile Scarlet minivet.. I too tend to agree with him, ...
The Nest was right next to the main road of the Periyaar sanctuary in front of the big turtle shaped house. The bird simply ignored the passersby and was...
A beautiful bird.. unfortunately inside a man made zoo.. Though we were not sure if its a visitor or with cliped wings..since it was present in a open air...
I didn't get it.. Is the female Scarlet colouration is "red and black" or "yellow and black" ??? Regards Atanu ... From: Sumit Sen [mailto:sumitsen1@...]...
Hi Folks! I luckily switched to a cable connection but I would be "paiseless" if I had to constantly download 500kb plus files over a slow dial-up connection. ...
Hi Sumit, I was discussing this with Kousik privately today morning...(and it seems I am the culprit for invoking this mail from u :) ) But does ur mail comes...
... I think when downloading an email with POP3 client it is not possible to separately download the body first, and then attachments.. Or is there any mail...
PRESS RELEASE Indigo Consultancy Services, The Times Foundation and Maharashtra Nature Park Society (MNPS) are conducting a unique three-day festival from...
Hi Suresh, Yes POP3 I think is a bit limited in that capability.. If ur ISP provides IMAP server then in a mail client like EUDORA u can configure to download...
Hi Atanu, We have had a spate of over 500kb mails in the last 10 days. I had been meaning to send the request out a few days ago but got caught up with other...
... Very true. The rules for posting in INP says that images should be less than 50KBytes. Initially I tried to keep my images under this, then when I saw...
On 2001 April.. I got a boost to spend a fortune on the Sigma 175-500 and got to spend the whole afternoon sitting on the bund of Belandur lake in hot sun...
Where else does a bird photographer heads to when he get a big lens other than Ranganthitoo. This snow white bird was a joy to watch and a nightmare to...