Dera Maan I heard that you are comming to Assam 22 dec so try to come kokrajhar. We are discussing to organised butterfly meet in Ultapani for 2009. this proposal was given by Krushnamegh. regards Kushal da
--- On Thu, 11/12/08, Maan Barua <[email protected]> wrote: From: Maan Barua <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ButterflyIndia] Namdapha was amazing To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, 11 December, 2008, 11:49 PM Dear Arjan, I am in India from the 22nd of December till the 22nd of January. Lets speak when I get to Assam. What is your phone number? Best wishes, Maan On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Arjan Basuroy <naturemates@ gmail.com> wrote: Yes Maan, we definitely like to have there support for a meet there. when will u be in India? it will be of great pleasure for us to have u in a meet! regards Arjan On 11/11/08, Maan Barua <maanba...@gmail. com> wrote: If you're planning a meet in the NE, then I think our other NE members could help out as well. Maan On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Arjan Basuroy <naturemates@ gmail.com> wrote: Yes Nelson ji, our next trip will be on April May! hello! can we have our 1st meet of 2009 there? i can take the responsibility on behalf of naturemates for that. members pls comment on my suggestion. regards Arjan On 11/10/08, Nelson Rodrigues <nel...@yahoo. com> wrote: Yes friends we are back from a very exciting trip .Ultapani was good but namdapha was great. for those who are unaware, u sclose to the Bhutan Border,There is no electricity there and even the BSNL phones work in few spots across the village,Essentially most of our butterflying was done from the main road. The nearest hotel is about 3o miles away. Fortunately we stayed in the range office right in ultapani and The senior forest officals got a generator for us where we charged our battteries. Ultapani had lots of butterflies but the variety was certainly more at NAMDAPHA. Our group at Ultapani comprised of Isacji, Usha ,Balakrishnan and myself. Ultapani was a beautiful place and the volunteers t here have a fairly decent knowledge of the species available here. The landscapes especially on the Bhutan border was picturesque. We showed the volunteers some films from BNHS, Usha and isac had to drop out from the namdapha trip due to some personal reasons At Kokrajhar we were joined by Arjan and Rudradas we boarded the train at Kokrajhar and went to tinsukia which was about 4 hours drive f to Miaow town which is the entry point to namdapha. The first butterfly we spotted at the elephant camp was the wizard and we thought it was a great start. We got off the vehicle and began walking up a climb 4 kms later we reached landslide . My heart was in my mouth as we crossed the landslide which was about 60feet wide one wrong step and you could go down 50 feet that was scary. we reached the camp after a 6 hours walking and taking pictures.All of us got a good catch my lucky one was the Green duke female Everyday we added about 20 species to our list and i think if stayed there for another 7 days our count would go past 300 The heart stopping sight of the trip was when we walked down the river bank and we saw about 2000 to 3000 butterflies mud puddling in in one spot. Balakrishnan to got an mazing picture of an orchid tit swimming in the water.Rudro will send the detailed list shortly. Namdapha is famous for its swallowtails but i presume the best time to see them is april may. and finally thanks to isaac, usha, bala, arjan for being such good teammates This was my second trip to namdapha and believe me that place has some magic about it.The tall trees, the sound of hollock gibbons, the meandering rivers and butterflies. Someone please pull my reins because i am wanting to go there again in april or may. Nelson Rodrigues Every daay we w -- Arjan Basu Roy 6/7 Bijoygarh, Kolkata - 700 032 West Bengal, India Be natures' mate! -- Arjan Basu Roy 6/7 Bijoygarh, Kolkata - 700 032 West Bengal, India Be natures' mate! Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Enjoy -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
