The Flight of the Pelican-Yellandur

[Shyamala Kumar]

Spot Billed Pelican .On the way from Benglaru to K-Gudi we saw numerous lakes and ponds and also the skies above them, replete with bird life.Nikon 7100+300mm f6.3 ISO320 FL300MM 1/2000s.

[Mrudul Godbole]

Nice flight pose captured. Good details. Thanks for sharing.

[Saktipada Panigrahi]

Nice. Looks like a heavy-lift aircraft in flight, nice large wingspan, and winglets now being designed and added by human beings. Thanks for sharing.SaktiWild

[Roopak Gangadharan]

Nice pose showing the wing span. If im not wrong this place (yellandur) used to figure prominently in some kenneth andersons tales.

TFS
Roopak

[Shyamala Kumar]

Kenneth Andersen made Bangalore his base and moved on his safari expeditions to now what has become fragmented wilderness of Karnataka and Andhra .Most of his writings pertain to adventures in the region of Bhadra namely Chikmaglur and Shimoga Tarikere etc...Yellandur was on our way from Bangalore to K-Gudi.

[Roopak Gangadharan]

Hi Shyamala..Anderson did have some of his tales set in what is now the BR hills TR and quite a few in around the Kollegal - Sathyamangalam area.This was one of his favourite hunting grounds.

Rgds
Roopak

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Was brought up on a staple diet of Kenneth Anderson. His writings were a virtual treasure trove for the natural history student. Because of his lucid style his natural history observations remains imprinted in the mind, and later on when I started visiting forests on my own, I could experience a number of these moments. Perhaps reading his books helped in anticipating some of these behaviour better.