While coming from Mysore, we suddenly saw a big Firefox logo pasted on a bus. We stopped the car and and stopped the bus which was about to leave and took these photographs. I wonder if the artist knew where the logo came from 🙂 This is the big logo behind the bus
Had an *excellent* trip to BR hills over the weekend. I was originally planning to spend the weekend in the city, but after the riots, I decided there was no point sticking around Bangalore. So drove off to my second home. Got to see 2 fully grown tigers together for a good amount of time Got to see porcupine – A first for me. The first steps towards my long term plans at BR hills took shape A long term project got finalized – related to BR hills again And now it’s monday morning.
So I finally setup the Photoblog. You can grab it directly via the RSS feed or if you are on LJ, you can add .
The naughtiest elephant from BR hills forest – Kyatha Btw, how do people like a ‘Photo of the day’ kinda post daily ?
How do people handle of spam on a public wiki ? The WildIndia Wiki has been getting a lot of spam the last few months. I have been cleaning them up regularly, but in the last one week, while I was out of town, there was a big flood of it and almost all the articles have been edited to include spam links. Check out the Recent Changes. I’d hate to make it moderated (is there a way to do it in mediawiki ?) and yet, want to keep the spam away. I know lot of you folks use Mediawiki…
If you’ve been on any of my security talks, you would have seen me poke holes in Indiatimes.com and with ICICI bank online banking site (both having shitloads of security features, all of which can be bypassed) . Now they have gotten together to launch a “Indiatimes ICICI Bank credit card” for secure online transactions. Oh Joy
Finally uploaded my Thattekad photographs over the weekend. Not too many photographs, but the Frogmouth was the highlight of the whole trip. Anyway thats about all the photographs I have for now. Don’t know when my next wildlife trip will happen, considering I have so much work piled up. Friends – Ashy Wood Swallows Thattekad, Kerala, 4 Mar 2006 While waiting for the guide to turn up, we were at a bridge and noticed an Ashy wood swallow on a wire. Another one came to join the first bird and after a while a third one joined them. All three…
I got a call this evening from the folks at BR hills (The place where I worked as a naturalist for big part of last year). In the evening safari, four young tigers were spotted together playing in the rain. They could not spot the mother it seems, but these four tigers were about 2 feet in height and were surely more then a year old. A tiger’s litter is usually 2 – 4 cubs and half of them die before they complete the 1st year. It’s very rare 4 cubs can survive together till they are more then a…
The Bharatpur photographs are finally up. This is one of my best catch of the lot. Snake Bird – Threat display Bharatpur, Rajasthan, 4 Mar 2006 This Darter (Snake bird) let me go real close for me to get a good portrait shot. At one point, I was too close and I had stepped into the birds comfort zone. The bird turned towards me and performed this display to scare me away. Of course I did get scared, as this was a big bird and it could jump on me and injure me quite badly. Check out rest of the…
After living off my suitcase for the last 2 weeks, I’m finally back in Bangalore. Travels have been for work, pleasure and sometimes both. Got to visit Bharatpur (The best bird sanctuary in north India) and Thattekad (The best bird sanctuary in the south) in these travels. I’m sitting on 10GB worth of photographs and in these two forests, I got to see 30+ bird species for the first time ever in my life. Anyway I think I’m done with travel for a bit and will process these pics over the next few days. There have been lot of ups…