Nature walk at Kukkarahalli kere

Date: 30.10.2016, Sunday (Birthday of late Sri Sadananda KB)

Habitat: Tank, marsh and Woodland - Kukkarahalli Kere, Mysore City

Duration: 07.00 to 10.00 AM

Highlight:

• Famine effect was clearly visible – absence of undergrowth vegetation, even well-grown trees are shedding their leaves or in wilting leaves.
• 32 members graced the occasion of Late Sri Sadanand KB birthday and spent half an hour remembering him.
• Observed 70 bird species ( 16 migratory) includes four SPOT-BILLED DUCKs family consisting of 30 chicks & juveniles. More active was, solitary EURASIAN CUCKOO , searching the caterpillars and consuming them, 3 in 5 minutes. Sub-adults WHITE IBISes of last season are yet to depart from breeding island, but already SPOT-BILLED PELICANs have occupied the nesting canopy. The presence of solitary NORTHERN PINTAIL was the highlight.
• Very few butterflies were active – CRIMSON ROSE, COMMON GRASS YELLOW, COMMON CROW, PLAIN TIGER.
• Flowering plants close to water edge – MIKANIA MICRANTHA, IPOMOEA ALBA, IPOMOEA AQUATICA, IPOMOEA HEDERIFOLIA & OXYSTELMA SECAMONE.

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