We plan to bring out a booklet for children on the rich flora and fauna of Puttenahalli Lake. This is an invitation to all resident shutterbugs to take photographs of the trees and birds at the lake for possible inclusion in the book. We’ll be happy to give due credit to the selected photographs. We will need high resolution pictures. Also, need an aerial view of the lake for the cover. Please send pics by 12th September to puttenahalli.lake@gmail.com.
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On a regular day in May, the calls of migratory waders and other shorebirds foraging in sprawling mudflats fill the air in the southern reaches of Chennai. May is the dry season for the Pallikaranai Marsh, when water levels naturally recede, exposing the critical feeding and breeding grounds that attract hundreds of bird species to this globally recognised urban wetland. But this year is different. The mudflats are gone. In their place is a stagnant expanse of water. This unusual water level during the dry season is not due to early rains. Indiscriminate construction within the marsh is blocking the…
I’ve just sent in a photo….is the lake open to everyone, Usha? Thanks for the work you and the team are “puttenahalling” in, to save this lake!
Over the last few weeks, we have been delighted to have received
amazing photographs taken at Puttenahalli Lake, from many enthusiastic photographers. To ensure that we don’t lose any of these and to showcase this talent, we have a dedicated page on our website, PNLIT Shutterbugs. Most picture displays are linked to their original location on the web. PNLIT acknowledges that all the pictures are the property of their respective owners.
The link…
http://sites.google.com/site/puttenahallilakeonline/pnlit-shutterbugs
” Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is
what separates the snapshot from the photograph.” – Matt Hardy
Thank you for capturing the beauty at Puttenahalli Lake!
More welcome anytime. Just mail your pictures of Puttenahalli Lake and/
or the vicinity to puttenahalli.lake@gmail.com. We will be happy to include them on our website.