Most of my birdwatching has been with my friend Praveen whom i met at REC, Calicut
while doing my BTech in ECE. Together, we were the only ones to do a survey of the
birds in the CREC campus.

For a checklist of the CREC campus birds, please visit Praveen's homepage.
The cumulative count was near to 130 species!

Together, we also put together an article for the college magazine titled "AVANT GARDE"
in which a few pictures drawn by me accompanied the article.

For the few months after i graduated in '00 and started working in bangalore, i was an
inactive birder.Soon I resumed my birdwatching in bangalore thanks to the egroups
bngbirds@yahoogroups.com

As a part of my birdwatching and other nature outings, of the places
i've been to, the ones i'd classify as good would be:-

     1. Malampuzha and Kawa, near Palakkad, Kerala.
     2. Nelliampathy hills, near Palakkad, Kerala.
     3. Chinnar, near Munnar, in Idukki District, Kerala.
     4. Kumarakom backwaters, near Kottayam, Kerala.
     5. Kole Wetlands, Trissur, Kerala.
     6. Kadalundi estuary, near Calicut, Kerala.
     7. Pookodu Lake, near Vythiri,Kerala.
     8. Purathoor Estuary, near Ponnani,Kerala.
     9. Nesting site of Olive Ridleys at Payyoli, near Calicut.
     10. Choolanur peafowl reserve,on the Palakkad-Trissur district
           border.
     11. Muthanga wildlife reserve, near Sultan Battery.
     12. Bannerghatta National park,Bannerghatta,Bangalore.
     13. Lingambudhi lake, near vivekananda circle, Mysore.
     14. Area north of valley school campus, Kanakapura road, Bangalore.
     15. Hoskote lake, Old madras road,bangalore.
     16. Yellamallappachetty lake,Old madras road,bangalore.
 
and many places in and around bangalore.

My favourite bird sites are delhibird.org,virtualbirder.com, Indiabirds.com

In June 2002, i bought a Canon EOS 50 camera and a canon 75-300 USM III lens.
Since then i am also into bird & wildlife photography. The best outputs have been
put up for public viewing on my Yahoo! photo page. Please feel free to view the
pictures, but please quote my name if you use it anywhere :-).