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…
Red Velvet Mite
I was walking down the forest track. A little distance from where I was, was a little red creature lumbering down towards me. When I was just a few feet from it I knew what it was. And, this one…
Sun Spider
It was way back during the late eighties, perhaps 1988 that I saw this little creature called the Sun Spider scurrying just outside the forest guest house in Tamil Nadu. I followed it with the help of a torch before…
Preying Spiders
Monsoons breathe new life into the landscape. The dry landscape suddenly becomes a vibrant green. The countryside that was hitherto seemingly dull, dreary, dry and bereft of any life suddenly seems to be buzzing with activity. Plants are in various…