Spotbilled pelican feeding at Kokkare Bellur (Village of Storks), a small village of the main highway between Bangalore and Mysore, is one of the few nesting sites in India of the spotbilled pelican. In addition, it is also home to hundreds of painted storks. The best time to see the pelicans is in December and January. The place is not a sanctuary, and the storks and pelicans live freely in the trees in the middle of village and are quite used to their human neighbors. Mysore Amateur Naturalists (MAN) have been working with the inhabitants of village to preserve the nesting site of the spotbilled pelicans, which are an endangered species. The following article discusses the work that the Mysore Amateur Naturalists are doing in the village on 14th january 2009.

A leopard cub is seen in a playful mood in the Bannerghatta Biological Park as the water drops making the cub circulate around the water outlet on 1th june 2009. There are three two-months-old leopards cubs are rehabilitated after they were found motherless in a sugarcane field in Mysore distrcit last month.

The Wednesday showers have made way for new innovative games for city children to explore. The clogged water have not stopped the kidds from playing at Chacha Park near jayamahal in Bangalore on 11th june 2009.

A panoramic view from atop Makali Durga in Doddaballapur Taluk on June 10th 2009. where the road and the rail track run almost parallel to each other for several km creating the best view for trekkers and travelers who visit this hill. Remnants of a fort nurtured by `palegaars’ in early 16th century is still can be seen on the hill.