While travelling we have become increasingly aware of the large number of dogs that hang aroung on the roads, all very placid, as if hoping for a titbit from the passing cars and only evading them at the last second..
From the hotel garden, overseen by a huge Buddha in the rocks, the weather looked promising and we were able to view black-necked stork and Layards parakeet. But once we got up high, the peaks were shrouded in heavy mists and we were lucky when they lifted for a half an hour or so to allow a frenetic period of butterfly spotting in an area of scrub by a building site.
The red pierrot (one of my identified targets) and great orange tip turned up though not inclined to hang around. Neither was the great eggfly I nearly stood on in pursuit of them. There were also a number of brown shrikes in the area, so small and inoffensive that you would not have thought of
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| Female mormon posing as common rose |
When the hazy sunlight faded we made the best of it by cresting the mountain and heading down towards a village where we had planned to walk and laying bait for butterflies on the way back, A brief interlude of reasonable light allowed sightings of common and blue mormon as well as common rose, but perhaps the most interesting was a female common mormon imitating the common rose as she went about laying her eggs. Our guide Indike explained that they do this to ward off attacks as the common rose is poisonous.
Unfortunately the weather really closed in and we had no option but to hightail it back to the hotel through a horrible combination of thick fog and torrential rain that made me pleased I didn't have to drive the van.
I'm aware this is a rather fragmentary account of a fragmented day that left us wondering what would happen if the repeat visit to Riversone on Day 5 drew a blank.
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| Large water monitor |
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Nice pics and blog as well visit on this link- Corbett National Park
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