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Sunday, August 18, 2013

Chicago Botanic Garden - 08.16.13

Beautiful garden close to my place. I spent 3 hours which is not at all sufficient to cover even half of that garden. Colorful flowers, different birds.
I spent at least 30 min taking pictures of humming birds and American Goldfinch (I think). They were gorgeous.

Perfect place for evening biking but I did not take mine. So next time I will take my bike along and hopefully cover the other part of the park.
Here is the website : Chicago Botanic Garden

I got few interesting pictures of Humming birds. There were at least 4 of them, chasing each other :-)

here are few pictures:

Finally there were few American Goldfinch (I think). I aimed at particular one and took a bunch of pics of it :-)
Here is the link for the bird: American Goldfinch

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Gainesville to Chicago via Niagara :-)

It was an interesting road trip (May 06 - May 14) with my parents and my junior friends. The summary of the itinerary was something like the following --

Gainesville -> crossed Georgia and South Carolina -> Enter North Carolina -> Asheville -> entry to the blue ridge parkway near the folk art center -> various overlooks -> Mount Mitchell state park -> Linville Falls -> Left the blue ridge on right near Boone and took I-81 -> Crossed Virginia ->Shenandoah Valley ->Winchester -> Washington DC reached via 495 -> city tour -> Delaware to mom's friends house -> New Jersey -> NYC through Lincoln Tunnel -> night Grayline bus tour -> crossed Pennsylvania state -> Upstate New York -> Corning Glass Museum near Ithaca -> Watkins Glen State park -> one of the Finger Lake park -> Drive to Buffalo for Niagara Falls -> Drive to Cleveland, OH via I-86 / I-90 to visit Dad's friend for lunch -> Drive through I-90 -> crossed Indiana -> reached Chicago, IL -> flew back from Chicago to Orlando, FL -> drive back home.

Approximate Driving Route/Map:

Click Here to see Road trip Pictures

Monday, April 8, 2013

Bird watching

I went for bird watching yesterday (7th April) early morning with my friends. We saw different kind of birds - cardinal, red-winged black birds, sparrow, crane, pileated woodpecker, Blue Jay, Vireo, American crow, Carolina Chikadee, various warblers, robin, Towhee, northern perula.

Interestingly, I took a green frog's picture (below). The skin was kind of sticky !