This is my newly created birding blog. Birding is an activity I enjoy immensly. I have just started birding, and I am hooked. I hope to share on this page my experiences with birding and hopefully I will find time and energy to update this.

And this is also an invitation for other fellow birders to contact me.

I do not know how popular bird watching is in India. It is a sort of refined hobby, and it does require some investment (binos, for example) and ready access to information (the internet.) So it is not popular...I say this, because other than the people who intoduced me to birding, I have not met any other birder (so far.)

More about me is in my homepage/profile pages.

I should, at this point say that I have been introduced to this fascinating hobby by Dr.Susy Varughese, a faculty member in the department of Chemical engineering at IIT Madras. I shall always be grateful to her, and Prakriti (IIT Madras Wildlife Club) for having instilled in me the love for Nature and birds in particular.

India is a fascinating country, with a rich and varied wildlife (although an alarming portion of it is dwindling.) Let us try our best to help conserve it (although I am having the feeling that it is a losing battle.)

I hope to give my trip reports, bird findings, and other routine stuff here.

I am also the member of two discussion forums, www.birding.in and www.birdforum.net.

Hope to have a good time in this blog!!