Kaggalipura – again one of the awesome place for birding and to watch nature beauty. Here are some of the birds, butterflies and flowers. For direction, please see the Place section of BangaloreCaptured.com.
It is more than 4-5 kms of walk.
Common Kestrel
Drift of common Kestrel
Blue Pansy
Golden Oriole
Golden Dartlet
White browed fantail flycatcher
Purple Rumped Sunbird
Pale billed flowerpecker
Common Leopard
common jezebel
Common Emigrant
Coppersmith Barbet and Flowerpecker
Brain fever bird
Chandu, my birding partner came home on Wednesday night with an excitement that we will go somewhere tomorrow. Yes, it was holiday but I was tired. Tough to peruse him and we decided to go all time favorite Valley School. Reaching around 6.30 AM, again a cloudy morning. Decreased our chances of butterflies and even birds. Though I put camera on a high ISO and said “lets take whatever is coming on the way”.
Deepu and Chandu searching insect, butterfly, bird and anything whatsoever was available. Most of the pictures will have a high noise but I want to share our work for the day and yes reporting is important.
Thanks to Deepu for most of the butterflies picture and Chandu for searching birds.
Common Wanderer
Pea Blue
White eye Buzzard
Common Pierrot
Indian Grizzled Skipper
 Blue Faced Malkoha |
 Fire bug |
Glory Lily
Black headed Munia
white browed bulbul
Common Picturewing
Scaly Breasted Munia - Family
indian robin juvenile
Red-wattled Lapwing
Choco Pansy 
Green Bee eaters
Immature Grasshopper
 Golden Silk Orb-weaver |
 Rufous Babbler |
UnID Bee
Last but not the least [I guess this is a old dialogue now], new chaps of birding :
Chandu at focus, Deepu with Camera
Cubbon Park is in the center of the city. Expecting it to provide a flora and fauna of jungle kind is not possible. I roam around 2- days near this park and I believe it has lot of potential. Here I am going to post some of the pictures near Cubbon Park.
Beautiful Central Library
chocolate pansy - butterfly
 Rose Garden at the back of Library - Hybrid Rose |
 Hybrid Red Rose |
Flowers
Gaint Beautiful trees
magpie robin - juv
Chestnut Bob - The Skippers Butterfly
Seasonal flowers come on the roadside
After two awesome posts by Prathima and Priyanka, there is not much to write about Lalbagh flower show. But on the base line, I will say everyone should see it, specially for children and one who has interest in nature.
 Tailed jay on Zinnia flower |
 Common Grass Yellow on Zinnia flower |
Moving forward, I can see the crowd and excitement in people towards flower show.
One more flavor of Peruvian Lily. A true color of nature and this species exists in 90-120 colors across the globe.
Here is the red color flavor of the same.
Red Flavor of Peruvian Lily. A true color of nature and this species exists in 90-120 colors across the globe.
 Cineraria - Exists in 50 different species |
 One more flavour of Cineraria |
The forever flowers of Lalbagh(I mean when season allow) are Grand Crinum Lily and Orange Cosmos.
 Grand Crinum Lily - Always in Lalbagh |
 Wasps at Orange Cosmos |
Some of the flowers specially for Flower show.
Flower show special
Flower show special
A seasonal flower - Seen at lalbagh and Cubbon Park - Don't know the name
Red Rose embedded with Yellow Rose
Marigold growing up
China Rose - evergreen beauty
 Celosia - A siiky Feel |
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Sultan's Balsam - Lots of flavors.
I am not done but considering pictures, I am stopping here. For more, you can visit : http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150349715871281.394368.569911280&type=1 (My facebook album)
It was my 16th visit of Ragihalli, whenever I saw that place I see one small lake in Ragihalli but never able to locate this. The secret got opened when Deepa revealed the location of secret lake which was just a wow place for birding.
Who welcomed us – White lotus… My first view of white lotus in Life. It was again a cloudy day and the life-cycle of nature didn’t revealed lot of birds for us, though we were hearing tremendous of it. Putting the cruel mind of photographer apart, I felt very happy in the paradise.
White Lotus
Swallows were running here and there and then I saw them finally sitting. It was a delight to see the juvenile swallow too.
Red Rumped Swallows - in a discussion
And then suddenly so many bee-eaters will come and sat near you. You will get confuse whom to take .
 Small Bee-eater before the catch. |
 Small Green Bee-eater Juv |
 Juv. Red rumped Swallow |
 Lotus - Lifecycle |
Silverbills - What to talk
Protecting eggs
 Pied Crow |
 Glory Lily |
Always delighted to see spotted Owlets
Purple Rumped Sunbird and fruits
Pea Blue
Garden city kick started annual Independence Day flower show on 5th of August. Main attractions of the show are the replica of the Lotus Temple of New Delhi and the wheel of Konark Temple, Orissa. The show will end on August 15th.
Florist giving final touches to the Lotus temple replica
Beautiful Lotus temple replica made of 2,00,000 carnations, 75,000 roses, tuberoses and over 10,000 ornamental leaves
Glass house is filled with lots of beautiful flowers like Roses, Cosmos, Impatiens basin, group of annuals, Candytuft, Statice, Torenia, Dahlias and many others.
Pink Dahlia with a caterpillar
Sunflower
Yellow and Pink roses
Flowers were arranged in artistic way in the form of Butterfly, Wheels etc. Indian flag made using 4kgand 500 grands of rice grabs your attention.
Yellow Butterfly
Bee taking the charm of nature
Dwarf Powder Puff
Many stalls have been put up where you can buy manures, jute items, jewellery, books etc. There is an exhibition of different spices, vegetables, fruits with information regarding export etc, this is organized by Department of Horticulture.
Got few details from this link http://bangalore.citizenmatters.in/articles/view/211-heritage-present-is-commerce-krmarket- written by Deepa Mohan !!
Flower Sellers inside K R Market.The central courtyard was a bustle with vendors and customers, striking their bargains.
The “Paytay, Kotay, Kerey, Thota” of the walk !!!
The “Paytay”, roughly translated, means “commercial centre”. The Krishna Rajendra Market area definitely continues to be one, from the time, approximately one hundred and fifty years ago, when it was designated as a commercial area. It remains, even today, a bustling hive of trade.
Apart from other businesses, K.R. Market, part of the old city area, is an important centre for those who buy flowers on a wholesale basis. Roses, ‘kakda’, ‘mallige’, ‘kanakambaras’, ‘sevanthige’, asters, ‘chendu hoo’ and ‘rudrakshi chendu hoo’ are bought from wholesale flower market (‘hoovina mandi’) and other places like Hosur, Timmapura, Salem and Tiruvannamalai of Tamilnadu, Nelamangala, Doddaballapura, Anekal, Chikkaballapura, Hebbal and Kumblahalli of Hoskote District.
Colorful !!!!
We are here to buy & sell !!!
Pay me !!
Close up for you !!!!
Close Up 1 !!!
These ladies are the playing most imp role, after this job they have 1 more job serving their families.
Busy sellers !!!
If the business goes well then you can see the smiling faces….
Happy faces !!!
Fine say bye to flower market its time for me to take to the other part of K.R. Market – Vegetable market….Many small traders stay around the wholesale market. The farm vegetables and fruits are shipped in by middlemen/wholesalers. They control the market and the prices. The farmers get very little, especially, when they grow a surplus. The retailers pick up their needs everyday starting 4 a.m., and carry their stuff to the various neighborhoods. Many small vendors work on a day to day basis borrowing money from loan sharks at rates of interest around 10% per day!
Man with proteins !!!!
Lighten it up !!!
He was very busy in sewing the sacks & packing up the vegetables, he made his free time & posed for my camera….
Maamoo !!
These guys dont have retirement plan, pension plan etc… they have only one plan that is ” BE HAPPY WITH WHAT WE HAVE FOR TODAY “….
I dont have retirement !!!
Even i dont have retirement plan !!
Ah man, this old guy was very active in his activities, in which smoking is also a active activity which he does regularly…
Smo..KEY !!!
Fun time to relieve their stress..
Fun tym !!!
They took their tym to pose to our cams with a smiling face..
Posing tym !!!
Here comes our capsicum Raja….
Indha Capsicum Endhu !!!
Today’s rounds are done with this, i’m damn tired & i’m going.. you guys read my blog……
Tym to say bye bye....drrrrrr....!!!!!
I felt it very ashamed that there is no public website or information place where I can get to know about the flowers of Lalbagh. I have here given a try to name some of it. Flowers are, no doubt, the most beautiful gift that nature has created for us. Lalbagh is known for it’s flower variety.
My All time Fav - Lotus
One of the most lovely looking flower – Grand Crinum Lily.
Grand Crinum Lily
A big attraction for all the bees and butterflies. Here goes the Orange Cosmos:
Bee coming on Orange Cosmos
One of the best flowers for viewer at Lalbagh, covering the road at both the way.
Sultan's Balsam
You can see at the starting of the Lalbagh gate, many flowers belong to Sunflower family. Here are one called Black-Eyed Susan.
Black-Eyed Susan - Guess the direction of Sun
Some more flowers are waiting for you to take your attention. Not all of them you will see throughout the year.
Decorative Dahlia
What else, the post will not finish and I will keep on posting the flowers of Lalbagh. In this post, I have not written the interesting facts about these flower. So, I will soon post Part 2, where we will have some more insight. At last, known by everyone, Lalbagh has a dedicated Rose Garden. Some of the flowers from Rose garden for you .
 Hybrid Rose |
 Amber Flush - Hybrid Rose |
One more to add . This flower got a beautiful fragrance. A small boy came near me and told look at the fragrance. It was WOW .
Boy posing from a super fragrance flower
One of the most beautiful period of Lalbagh is flower show time. Though I hate it because they charge Rs. 40 for ticket which is in general day Rs. 10. Lets have a flower walk with the rose garden of Lalbagh, most of the time this garden doesn’t have anything .
White-Red Rose
White-Red Rose, getting little dull in Sunlight
White baby Rose.
White Rose
Marigold – Shining with Sunlight.
Pair of Marigold
And many other colorful flowers to see and enjoy. I don’t like people plucking flowers, and I guess its our responsibility too to stop such kind of happening.
Petunias
I enjoyed the Ferel Pigeon flight. They are interesting in flight and create a nice sound. Love to see how randomly they start flying due to sudden sound and align themselves quick in one direction.
Ferel Pigeon in flight
And something which every kid like and I like it still even I can’t claim myself a kid. Balloons and making bubbles with Soap liquid foams. This seller was confident that he would sell all the balloons, so pumping new one.
A seller pumping balloons
We all have at least one time experience of roaming on empty road at 4 or 5 AM. At that time we think that whole of the city is sleeping and I am walking on so called in a lovely dawn(or even before). No, that’s not right. I will show you a market which start after midnight and close before sunrise. That’s the KR market of Bangalore. KR market is famous for flower selling and one of the oldest markets in Bangalore.
Women selling the flowers
One gracious lady checking the freshness of flower
When I reached here at 4 AM, this market was over-crowded unlike any other markets. Mostly small buyers were getting the stuff from bigger buyers. People were all around busy, running here and there. Tea stalls were all open(that was a good relief for me ).
Loved to see that work was happening on such a fast rate. Slowly big buyers were moving out after finished off their job. Though they sell flower whole day there only. Some small buyers were also leaving the place. Probably spreading themselves into the city.
FYI, Wiki Information: It is named after Sri Krishnarajendra Wodeyar the former ruler of the princely state of Mysore. Its the first locality in the whole of Asia to get Electricity.
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