One, two, three,…, …, …, fourteen! I am reminiscing for sure. But not from my childhood days of learning numbers. It was about 3 decades ago in the forests of Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary. Dark grey clouds delivered the much needed…
An assassin’s camouflage
As it happens so very often, I thought I saw something move on the trunk of the tree that I had just walked past. I stopped. I walked back a few paces to the tree to check if I did…
Elephant Foot Yam
Surprise !?!?! After some three decades of time spent wandering the forests regularly, one is not expecting surprises. But, it does happen! And, when surprises do happen, it usually is a bumper. One such surprise awaited me when I was…
Whip Scorpion
I was introduced to bird watching as a hobby during my late teens. It didn’t take too many visits to the nearby scrub forests to get addicted to this activity that I only had just begun to discover. This also…
Ant homes – a piece of art
Grain after grain, grain by grain, the ants of a colony move soil particles to build their citadels. Sit next to an ant nest and you will sight these tiny, albeit important, inhabitants of planet Earth. Ants are all too…