Photography at Butterfly Park Jubilee Hills Hyderabad

It's quite easy to get misled by the name of this park. I went there hoping I will find some good butterflies, however, this park although very well maintained, unfortunately has no butterflies.

Black Drongo

We went inside the park, no entry ticket, no butterflies there, rather this park is being used by the nearby local residents to walk their dogs. Finally managed to find a park where dogs are allowed. I'm sure I will take Eins along some time soon.

Very well maintained landscape, good green grass lawn in the middle and a jogging track alongside the park. I could spot a few birds in those trees around the park, got some beautiful shots as well. 
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Enjoy the pics below.

Common Tailorbird

White-throated Kingfisher

Ashy Prinia

Red-vented Bulbul

Ashy Prinia

Plain Prinia

Overall a very satisfying day, discovering a park that allows Eins to tag along with us.

Photography at Buddhist Monastery Secunderabad

This Buddhist Monastery is located at a serene location in Mahendra Hills, Secunderabad and hence not many people know about it. The idea was just to spend a good time at a new location and hence decided to go. Carrying the camera along is now more of a habit that anything else. You never know when all of a sudden somebody peeps from the tree branches.

Although photography isn't allowed inside the Monastery however standing outside the gate of the monastery we clicked some shots. Not many birds around but some good butterflies were there. For a photography outing per-se, this might not be an ideal location, however if you just want to spend a leisure time at a peaceful location complimented with some photography, you could visit here with your family.

The timing of the monastery is 5 AM to 10 AM then 4-30 PM to 8-30 PM.

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Enjoy the pics below.

Butterfly - Insect Photography

A definite subset of Bird Photography - every bird enthusiast has reasons to get fascinated by butterfly and bug photography. Some of the reasons why we got hooked to butterfly / insects photography are below,

• The pattern and color of the butterflies are so unique
• Usually they are found sitting on a colourful flower or around green plants and leaves - giving an opportunity to click such beautiful colors 
• Since they are small, you have to be quite near to focus, giving you beautiful bokehs 

This post compiles all the shots of butterflies / bugs we clicked till date. The list of species is as below followed by the pics.

1. Atlas Moth
2. Bamboo Treebrown
3. Banded Demoiselle Damselfly
4. Banded Treebrown 
5. Baronet
6. Black Swallowtail 
7. Black wood spider
8. Blue Ground Skimmer
9. Blue Marsh Hawk
10. Blue Moon
11. Blue Mormon
12. Blue Tiger
13. Blue-tailed Forest Hawk 
14. Brown Katydid
15. Castor semi-looper 
16. Chestnut Tiger
17. Chiasmia nora 
18. Chocolate Pansy
19. Clear Sailor
20. Commander
21. Common Blue Bottle
22. Common Castor
23. Common Chaser
24. Common Crow
25. Common Cruiser 
26. Common Eggfly
27. Common Emigrant
28. Common five-ring
29. Common grass yellow
30. Common Hedge Blue 
31. Common Jester 
32. Common Jezebel
33. Common Lascar 
34. Common Leopard
35. Common Lime
36. Common Mapwing 
37. Common Mormon
38. Common Peacock
39. Common Pierrot
40. Common Rose
41. Common Sailor
42. Common Tan Wave 
43. Common Wanderer
44. Crimson Marsh Glider
45. Crimson Tip
46. Crimson-tailed Marsh Hawk
47. Danaid Eggfly 
48. Dark Judy 
49. Dingy Bushbrown 
50. Ditch Jewel
51. Dragonfly 
52. Emperor Dragonfly  
53. Fulvous forest skimmer
54. Giant Asian Mantis
55. Giant Golden Orb Weaver 
56. Glassy Tiger 
57. Globe Skimmer
58. Golden-ringed Dragonfly 
59. Great Eggfly
60. Great-spangled Fritillary
61. Green Drab Moth 
62. Green Hairstreak - Theclini 
63. Green Stink Bug
64. Grey Pansy
65. Himalayan Common Baron 
66. Indian Cabbage White 
67. Indian Common Clubtail
68. Indian Fritillary 
69. Indian Grizzled Skipper
70. Indian Painted Grasshopper 
71. Indian Palm Bob
72. Indian Red Admiral 
73. Jewel Bug
74. Large Oakblue 
75. Large Salmon Arab 
76. Large Tree Nymph
77. Lemon Pansy
78. Looped Three Ring Butterfly
79. Man-faced Stink Bug 
80. Marbled White Moth
81. Migratory Locust 
82. Monarch 
83. Mottled Emigrant
84. Naga Sapphire 
85. Oleander Hawk-moth (Army Green Moth) 
86. Painted Lady
87. Pale Swallowtail 
88. Pied Paddy Skimmer 
89. Pioneer
90. Plain Tiger
91. Plain Tiger Caterpillar
92. Pond Skater
93. Potanthus Dart
94. Purple Sapphire 
95. Red Bug (Cotton Stainer) 
96. Red Helen 
97. Red Saddlebag 
98. Rice swift
99. Scallopwing 
100. Scarlet Skimmer
101. Short banded Sailor 
102. Short-tailed Swallowtail 
103. Silver-washed Fritillary
104. Slate Flash 
105. Small Copper 
106. Small Salmon Arab
107. Small Tortoiseshell
108. Striped Blue Crow 
109. Striped Tiger
110. Studded Sergeant
111. Tailed Palmfly
112. Tamil Yeoman 
113. Tawny Coster
114. The Spangle 
115. Variegated Flutterer
116. Wasp Moth 
117. Water Snow Flat
118. White Arab
119. Yellow Coster 
120. Yellow tailed Ashy Skimmer 
121. 
     

Enjoy the clicks below!

Blue Tiger - Hyderabad

Plain Tiger - Hyderabad

Monarch - Ottawa

Great-spangled Fritillary

Black Swallowtail

Short-tailed Swallowtail - Newfoundland

Pale Swallowtail - Edmonton

Crimson Tip - Hyderabad

Common Jezebel - Hyderabad

Common Lime - Hyderabad

Mottled Emigrant - Hyderabad

Striped Tiger - Hyderabad

Common Mormon - Hyderabad

Common Eggfly - Hyderabad

Common Castor - Hyderabad

Lemon Pansy - Hyderabad

Common Emigrant - Hyderabad

Common Crow - Hyderabad

Common Wanderer - Hyderabad

Common Blue Bottle - Hyderabad

Yellow Coster (Arunachal)

Indian Cabbage White male (Arunachal)

Dingy Bushbrown (Arunachal)

Man-faced Stink Bug (Hyderabad)

Small Copper (Dhanachuli)

Water Snow Flat

Indian Red Admiral (Dhanachuli) 

Common grass yellow (Coorg)

Crimson Marsh Glider (Coorg)

Pied Paddy Skimmer (Coorg)

Hawk Moth Caterpillar (Kalimpong)

Common Lascar (Kalimpong)

Scallopwing (Kalimpong)

Tamil Yeoman (Kalimpong)

Indian Fritillary (Kalimpong)

Emperor Dragonfly female (Kalimpong)

Blue-tailed Forest Hawk (Kalimpong)

Common Hedge Blue (Kalimpong)

Dark Judy (Kalimpong)

Red Helen (Kalimpong)

Indian Palm Bob (Kalimpong)

Green Drab Moth (Tumling)

Naga Sapphire (Kalimpong)

Common Cruiser (Kalimpong)

Purple Sapphire (Kalimpong)

The Spangle (Kalimpong)

Common Tan Wave (Sikkim)

Banded Treebrown (Kalimpong)

Purple Sapphire (Kalimpong)

Common Mapwing (Kalimpong)

Large Oakblue (Kalimpong)

Common Jester (Kalimpong)

Marbled White Moth (Kalimpong)

Small Tortoiseshell (Kalimpong)

Striped Blue Crow (Kalimpong)

Slate Flash (Kalimpong)

Indian Cabbage White (Kalimpong)

Glassy Tiger (Ganeshgudi)

Wasp Moth (GRK)

Common Emigrant female (GRK)

Large Salmon Arab (GRK)

White Arab (GRK)

Common Mormon male (GRK)

Yamfly (GRK)

Crimson Tip male (GRK)

Small Salmon Arab (GRK)

Brown Katydid (GRK)

Migratory Locust (GRK)

Pioneer (GRK)

Common Sailor - Kanha

Tawny Coster - Bidar

Clear Sailor - Coorg

Blue Moon - GRK

Atlas Moth - Garhwal

Atlas Moth - Garhwal

Common Peacock - Garhwal

Silver-washed Fritillary - Garhwal

Painted Lady - Garhwal

Studded Sergeant - Garhwal

Chestnut Tiger - Eagle's Nest

Large Tree Nymph - Andaman

Common Rose - Bidar

Danaid Eggfly - Hyderabad

Danaid Eggfly (male) - Hyderabad

Red Bug (Cotton Stainer) - Hyderabad

Giant Asian Mantis - Hyderabad

Green Stink Bug - Hyderabad

Oleander Hawk-moth (Army Green Moth) - Hyderabad

Dragonfly - Kanha

Jewel Bug - Tirupati

Crimson-tailed Marsh Hawk - Lonavala

Blue Marsh Hawk - Lonavala

Crimson Marsh Glider female - Lonavala

Chiasmia nora - Hyderabad

Plain Tiger Caterpillar - Chikmagalur

Banded Demoiselle Damselfly - Coorg

Blue Mormon - Coorg

Common five-ring - Coorg

Fulvous Forest Skimmer - Coorg

Pond Skater - Coorg

Looped Three Ring Butterfly - Coorg

Tailed Palmfly - Coorg

Himalayan Common Baron - Garhwal

Castor semi-looper (GRK)

White Arab (GRK)

Golden-ringed Dragonfly - Hyderabad

Variegated Flutterer - Hyderabad

Red Saddlebag - Hyderabad

Giant Golden Orb Weaver - Thattekad

Chocolate Pansy - Bandhavgarh

Indian Grizzled Skipper - Bandhavgarh

Potanthus Dart - Bandhavgarh

Yellow tailed Ashy Skimmer - Bandhavgarh

Common Leopard - Bandhavgarh

Indian Common Clubtail - Bandhavgarh

Scarlet Skimmer - Bandhavgarh

Globe Skimmer - Bandhavgarh

Blue Ground Skimmer - Bandhavgarh

Common Pierrot - Bandhavgarh

Fulvous forest skimmer - Bandhavgarh

Lime - Bandhavgarh

Black wood spider - Bandhavgarh

Common Chaser - Bandhavgarh

Commander - Bandhavgarh

Ditch Jewel - Bandhavgarh

Lime - Bandhavgarh

Tawny Coster - Bandhavgarh

Short banded Sailor - Bandhavgarh

Baronet - Bandhavgarh

Rice swift - Bandhavgarh

Common Rose - Bandhavgarh

Great Eggfly - Bandhavgarh

Bamboo Treebrown - Bandhavgarh

Indian Painted Grasshopper (GRK)

Grey Pansy (Kalimpong)

Green Hairstreak - Theclini (Dhanachuli)