The next leg of the journey is to Mysore and then to Bangalore where we catch a flight to the Andaman Islands,first a little unfinished business after the tigers.
ORIENTAL HONEY BUZZAEDS
SAMBA STAG AND COMMON MYNA
SAMBA STAG
STREAK THROATED WOODPECKER
BLACK RUMPED FLAMEBACK.
BLACK FACED LANGURS.
THIS ONE HAS A BABY IN ITS LAP She is eating bark from the cottonsilk tree.
AN OLD BOY I THINK.
ANOTHER SAMBA STAG
COPPERSMITH BARBET
We have now left Kabini River Lodge at Nagarhole and are on the road to Mysore.
There`s a tractor and trailer there somewhere.
WOOD SANDPIPER
GLOSSY IBIS
PHEASANT TAILED JACANA
INDIAN GREY HORNBILL
BRONZED DRONGO
THE BEST GREEN MARIGOLD HOTEL MYSORE.
The Green Hotel Mysore was built in1916 as a palace for the Maharajahs sisters, it is now run as a charitable institute with all profits ploughed back into the local community,we were told that most of the staff were local people taken off the streets and trained as porters waiters gardeners etc,super place shame we had to stay in the annexe.
Next morning,our last day on the mainland we left here for Bangalore.Of course there was time for a little birding on the way.
THE MORNING AFTER
READY FOR THE OFF
A boat ride around the lake gave us the opportunity to get up quite close to the birds here.
WIRE TAILED SWALLOW
SPOT BILLED PELICAN COLONY
PAINTED STORK
INDIAN THICK KNEE
LIFE IS SO TIRESOME.
BLUE TAILED BEE EATER
WHERE DOES A FRUIT BAT HIDE HIS FRUIT? HE DOESN`T.
SPOONBILL
SEVERAL CROCODILES HERE THEY LIVE ON YOUNG BIRDS AND FISH NOT HUMANS WE WERE ASSURED.
BLUE TAILED BEE EATER
STORK BILLED KINGFISHER.
OPEN BILLED STORK
SPOT BILLED PELICAN
PELICAN ARRIVING HOME.
ALEXANDRINE PARAKEETS ARE VERY QUICK WORKERS...
HOPEFULLY VERY TRUE.
ONE LAST ROADSIDE STOP FOR THIS BLACK{ RED NAPED} IBIS, BEFORE BANGALORE.
Another good day. Nice pitta shots - in Sri Lanka we only ever saw them on the ground.
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