Educational boards at the lake

It has been our desire to make the visits to Puttenahalli Lake more meaningful for everyone. Towards this, those who have visited Puttenahalli Lake recently, would have noticed that they have the help of sighting boards to identify the birds that they spot.

Over the past year, PNLIT Shutterbugs (enthusiastic individuals who keep visiting the lake to bird watch and photo-capture the birds), have been helping us identify the birds that frequent the lake and document their residency and visits. To date, we have spotted and positively identified more than 55 species of birds in the lake vicinity.

41 species, belonging to 21 bird families, have been featured on five sighting boards "Birds of Puttenahalli Lake", along with key information. We also have one large board at the entrance with information about Bangalore lakes.

All the photos on the boards have been taken at Puttenahalli Lake by the Shutterbugs during the period 2011-12 and due credit has been given to each photo.  

 

The Rotaract team in front of the large board at the entrance

Our thanks to Shutterbugs Deepa Mohan, Govind VT, Harish Mahendrakar, Hayath Mohammed, KamalHari Menon, Rajiv Ratnam, Ram Manoj, Rosita Sequeira, Sanjay Mysoremutt, Shubho Banerjee, Sudhir Singh, Sujesh S. and Sushil Katre whose photos we have used, and without which we would have had to rely on opensource pictures. 

Our grateful thanks to Rotaract members Chandini Vynatheya (who made a PNLIT presentation to Rotaract), Arihant Kumar, Shreyas Harithsa and Ankur Dubey (who took care of the logistics of getting the boards ready and setting them up) and to all the others at the Rotaract Club of Bangalore, the sponsor of these boards at Puttenahalli Lake. 

Comments:

  1. Naushad Thotad says:

    It is really a trend setting, similarly all resident of each lake nearby across Bangalore can take charge and provide batter information of each lake.

  2. Ashok Kumar says:

    i want to highlight the issue of commercial activities in jp nagar 7th phase BOB colony i am the resident of Jp nagar 7th phase BOB colony 4th main this is the residential area there are lot of commercial activities happening in this area. but some are really unacceptable for residential areas. There is one grill factory beside the mythtri sappire Apartment that makes the huge noise and disturbance to the near by residents it starts his work since 6 o’Clock in the morning its difficult even for us to sleep and whole day we suffer like that due to this factory our life became worst than hell. there are log of infants and kids and old age people are living near by my Kid also can’t Sleep property.I don’t know how they get licence to open these kind of shops/factories in residential areas. Dear Sir Please look into this matter. we will be grateful to you whole life. I am seeking help from you sir . Sir i am completely frustrated and hopeless from my life we are living in the situation worst than a Animal.

    Please help…

  3. Usha Rajagopalan says:

    Mr Ashok Kumar – Please get in touch with Corporator Ramesh 9980002259 asking him, as a first step, to get the timings of the workshops regulated.

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