Fluttering by Pondi

This post is from archives of our trip to Pondicherry and Point Calimere during October/November 2011.  We didn't spot any other butterflies in Point Calimere other than Roses but Pondicherry had lots to offer. Here is the butterfly post, birding post yet to come.
Do enjoy the pics, comments and corrections are welcome as always. And Thanks Rohit for helping out in correcting the ID's.

Common Bushbrown




Common Wanderer  Common Gull

 

Small Cupid   Plain Cupid



Three-spot Grass Yellow



Common Emigrant



Common Jezebel



Blue Tiger



Plains Cupid  Small Cupid

 

Jewel Bug amongst the butterflies

Tawny Coster

 

Blue Tiger

Common Crow

Butterfly-ing near Malavalli

Early days of butterflying in our lives, we had a good time with butterflies in between birding near Malavalli, Shimsha :-) A post on birding will come soon. Enjoy the pics. Comments welcome.

Blue Pansy - Wings folded

Blue Pansy - Wings folded

Blue Pansy

Common Pierrot

Plain Orange Tip

Tiger in Malavalli :-)

Baronet

Another Tiger- This is Striped ......

Pioneer :-) - A perspective (Thank you Rohit Rohit Girotra) 

Baronet Wings folded

And, finally this one! Sum called me to watch this interesting thing as she was taking video. An emigrant was struck in the spider web and soon the spider came, it quickly encircled its prey and I am sure this fella would have enjoyed his lunch for the day. Watch this video and a couple of shoots.

Spider (ID needed) munching on its prey - An emigrant 

Emigrant struck in a spiders web

Butterflies, Bucks and Bugs at Nannaj

Three days spent at Nannaj really went in a jiffy! Every outing out there had lot of surprises. Presenting the photo feature of bucks, butterflies and other mammals at Nannaj.

Awesome Foursome!! This gang of four Male Bucks were grazing around. So far we haven't seen more than one male black buck in a group. There were juveniles also in the group!

Black Naped Hare - shot at night

Indian Bull frog???- They were pretty huge! Two of them sitting near a lake

A for Ant hill B for Black Buck .. Thanks for posing

Beetle - Sucking the nector during morning. (ID needed)

Blister beetle - Thank you Deepa

Garden Lizard

Dreamway !

I remember reading somewhere that Nannaj has more that 40 species of butterflies. We were quite happy to spot a few during the trip.To ID butterflies, we have taken the help of book written by Kishen Das and his wonderful site Flutters which is quite informative for amateurs like us.

Rounded Pierrot

Lime Butterfly

Plain Cupid ???

Common or Mottled Emmigrant??



Blue Pansy - Male



Blue Pansy - Female



Daniad Eggfly- Male

Danaid Eggfly-Wings Closed

Danaid Eggfly - Female

Striped Pierrot

Painted Lady - wings open

Painted Lady - wings closed

Peacock Pansy- This was basking in the morning Sun

Tiny Grass Blue

Plain Tiger - wings closed

Plain Tiger - wings open

Common Rose - Wings Open

Common Rose - Wings Open

Crimson Rose

Cabbage White??

Grass Yellow - Not sure which sub specie??

Beetle ??? - ID needed

Finally a Moth - Google tells that it's a Crimson speckled Flunkey

Comments and Corrections are welcome :-)

For the account of trip and birding report please follow this link.