The begining.

Welcome and Wishing one and all a very happy Easter.

This blog will be about life in Hubli, a city in North Karnataka, India. Birding will figure prominently in it. So will nature and the importance of its conservation.

As a child, I was initiated into birding by my grandmother. Come feeding time,with me on her lap, she would point at bulbuls, house sparrow, crows, koels and woodpeckers that frequented the tree in my backyard, just to get me to eat (May the good LORD bless her soul). Lunch time at school and food got left on the ground for black kites to swoop down and carry it away.

As I grew and journeyed through life, the black kite remained an object of envy, for its gift of flight. New interests, the pain of school itself etc ensured that birds were a there but as a distant memory.

Last year the interest got kindled. A trip to Magadi Lake to see the bar headed geese and a meeting with Shri Gurunath Desai of the North Karnataka Birders Network (NKBN) did the trick.

This blog essentialy takes off from there and its a work in progress.

Your comments are welcome.