Three days in Ooty and Mysore - A picture report

Visited Ooty for three days on 3rd, 4th and 5th of April. Enroute, stopped at Bandipura and Mudumalai National Parks for few hours. Two entirely different climates, with Bandipura and Mudumalai being at around 900 metres ASL, while Ooty is at 2636 metres (Doddabetta peak).

- madhukara

The road winding through Bandipura and Mudumalai National Parks witnessed bloom of Indian Laburnum (ಕಕ್ಕೆ ಮರ) - Cassia fistula

'To a little girl'
Loveliness is all around
If you have the eyes to see
Gracious Nature sheds her bounty
Everywhere and endlessly

- found on a stone carving in Cairnhill Reserved Forest, summarises our experience.

Habitat images of Bandipura & Mudumalai National Parks

Colours & Patterns in nature

A view of Cairnhill Reserved Forest
(British planted good number of exotic trees here as early as 1870s. The place feels like British, made for a leisurely walk. Not a very good place for birding. Got to see Scaly Thrush (Zoothera dauma) for the first time here)

Grey-headed Flycatcher (Culicicapa ceylonensis)
from
Botanical Gardens, Ooty

- This is the ONLY bird I could digiscope in the three-days visit to Ooty :o)