Had been to Kunti Betta near Pandavapura last weekend along with Deepu and Prasath. Though the intention was to do pure bird photography, the plans took a U-turn thanks to the cloudy skies and bad light. I decided to shoot with shorter lenses, looking at the landscape. There were small hillocks which were strewn with huge boulders all around. This was supposed to be one of the place where the Pandavas during their vanavasa (banishment into forest).
There were a group of scouts, who were jogging in the area around us and they managed to scare off the birds in and around the main road leading uphill, so we decided to climb the hill off the track. The landscape looked like the territory in Daoroji Bear Sanctuary, and for a moment, I was apprehensive that I may end up standing face to face with a bear. To come face to face with a bear is worse than coming face to face with a leopard, tiger or even an elephant, as you are more likely to get mauled than anything else.
But thankfully all we came across were small birds, rock agamas, calotes lizards and a distant peahen. Francolin calls were everywhere, but we didnt see any. There was a solitary male shikra that flew past, a falcon that flew high up and finally a fig tree full of figs and bulbuls.
No bird keepers from the entier trip, but then I concentrated more on minimalistic shots, came up with a few ;)
