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My Best Butterfly Moment 2017
Rajesh Rkm
My first best moment was the Aralam butterfly survey, Kerala. That was my first
survey and i don't know anything about it!!! during that trip i met some great
peoples. They taught me everything and looked after me while i was sick. we also
went to all nearby wildlife sanctuaries and enjoyed a lot. still that was one of my
greatest experience to me. We named our team as "Team Annae" Because of my
Friend, we sighted many butterflies there and we all enjoyed is the Migration of
Albatross. There's lakhs and lakhs of albatross were migrated, that was one great
sightings there. Prakash Loganathan anna found the Five bar swordtail during
mudpuddling and for the first time i saw that beauty and also saw many beauties
there like Malabar tree-nymph, Redspot duke, Painted sawtooth. we enjoyed the
night trips, sanctuaries and the survey a lot.
Rajesh Rkm
My second best butterfly moments of 2017 was Kodaikanal
Birds & Butterfly survey. At first i was afraid to come alone
and before a week of survey, Sharan Anna asked me to
come so then i decided to come. i arrived the day before the
survey by afternoon with warm welcoming of drizzling in Ko-
daikanal and searched for DFO office by walked around 3 kms
and i found it. I met my team mates. By evening the tempera-
tures got lowered and other members also arrived. we went
to our staying place and had a great dinner. And next day we
went to the field around 8 only and till 10 we couldn't find
many butterflies or birds. we went to the top of hills and
sighted some rare butterflies like Palni four ring. and we also
found Tiger's pug mark in that place, that was one unex-
pected surprise moments for all. around 1 pm, the hills were
fully covered with mists. we take that as a photoshoot ses-
sion . Next day we went to many places, and we saw Palni
Fritillary, Nilgiri clouded yellow that fulfilled the survey. we
saw many birds also and some rare too. At final day, we were
ready to leave, there were also others teams. I saw Nilgiri
Clouded yellow on our place and hurried to take my cam out
of my bag. By seeing that, Some other also joined with me
that was one fun moment by running here and there to cap-
ture it. Amol Mande bro still didn't forget that fun No words
can express that moments. Lots of experiances and funs. That
all made me to love butterflies more than ever. Memorable
survey ever. i got more time to interact with everyone. i en-
joyed to be there with all the people who attended the sur-
vey. I call it as "Butterfly Family".
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