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!