We were lucky to sight a huge variety of creatures at Kabini…one of the most stunning being the

SOUTHERN BIRDWING

the largest butterfly in India….

Here’s the beauty, at work amongst the flowers of the Morning Glory:

A DANAID EGGFLY posed for us.... A MALABAR RAVEN did not pose, I had to keep running behind it and track it down! Shreeram and I were lucky to see this BLUE MORMON at rest: Later, all of us saw several GRASS YELLOWS mating: For a little while, we watched this SPIDER WASP hard at work, beginning to make her nest in the ground, where she would later bring prey that she would stun and lay her eggs on, as I have documented here And here's one example of what could be prey at one time, and predator (right now, deep in that hole in the tree trunk, it is sitting on several slugs which, presumably, it's going to be feeding on)....the YELLOW-THIGHED TARANTULA: Mammals included the lovely, lithe BLACK-FOOTED LANGUR: and WILD BOAR: some beautiful, orange MUSHROOMS caught our eye on safari: For most of the time I was there, I could see only half a LEOPARD: But the TIGER that was saw, though clearly visible in the undergrowth, could not be photographed because of very low light...though Shreeram took a shot on his Canon 7D at ISO 6400....that my old 20D can never achieve! It was lovely to see the SILK COTTON bursting out of the pods of the Bombax trees:

This

AMORPHOPHYLLUS YAM fruiting body

provided a burst of colour:

What a marvellous variety of things there are to see, in the wild!