Bhadra -A Wonderland of eternal blue

[Shyamala Kumar]

During the time , I was there, which was early during the month of may, the river terns which have made Bhadra famous had just begun to arrive .During the coming months they would nest in huge numbers on the little islands which dot the Bhadra Lake.The air is rent with their incessant calls, which gradually rises into a cacophonic frenzy with the arrival of the chicks.