Went to watch butterflies at Yeoor Hills (which is on the Thane side of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park) yesterday morning and it was a great experience!
In a few hours of effortless butterfly-watching we* just sat in one spot near the small water body (that’s quickly drying) and watched 100s of butterflies engrossed in mud-puddling.
Here's a few photos:
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| Line Blues |
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| Spot Swordtails |
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| Angled Pierrot |
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| Leaf Blue |
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| Zebra Blue |
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| Short-banded Sailor |
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| Angled Sunbeam - female |
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| Golden Angle |
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| Plum Judy |
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| Common Leopard |
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| Indian Red Flash |
I have been going to Yeoor off and on since 7-8 years now but never
have I seen soo many butterfly-watchers here! As long as this helps spread
awareness about the plight of this city’s ever diminishing green areas I think
it’s great :-D …
…. but deep down my growing worry is that some people have started
taking photos of butterflies(birds and wildlife in general) as a new means of Trophy
hunting for our ever growing social media platforms!
Anyways here's a butterfly list for the day (I'm sure I've missed a few species on this list):
1 Common Tiger
2 Blue Tiger
3 Plain Tiger
4 Common Crow
5 Common Mime
6 Zebra Blue
7 Angled Pierrot
8 Common Pierrot
9 Golden Angle
10 Gaudy Baron
11 Lemon Pansy
12 Blue Pansy
13 Yellow Pansy
14 Chocolate Pansy
15 Peacock Pansy
16 Angled Sunbeam
17 Indian Red Flash
18 Leaf Blue
19 Blue Oak Leaf
20 Common Sailor
21 Short-banded Sailor
22 Line Blue (s)
23 Common Jay
24 Forget-me-not
25 Malayan
26 Common Hedge Blue
27 Plum Judy
28 Spot Swordtail
29 Spotless Grass Yellow
30 Common Emigrant
31 Vindhyan Bob
32 Black Rajah
33 Glassy Tiger
34 Bush Brown
35 Common Leopard
36 Common Psyche
37 Common Gull
38 Danaid Eggfly
39 Indian Sunbeam
40 Common Cerulean
41 Plains Cupid
42 Chestnut-streaked Sailor
42 Chestnut-streaked Sailor
Besides the amazing array of
butterflies Yeoor is also a great place for other forms of wildlife… we saw a
few birds – Brown-headed Barbet, Crested Serpent Eagle, Oriental Honey Buzzard,
Ashy Drongos, Red Whiskered Bulbuls and even an elusive Little Heron….
Then there
were a few insects – Stalk-eyed Flies, Hover Flies, Horse Flies, Honey bees, Carpenter
Bees, Potter Wasps, Mud Dauber Wasps, Day-flying Moths, Silk Cotton bugs.. and
a few species of dragonflies, damselflies and spiders.
To end this post here’s a photo of
one the spiders we found at the edge of the water body..
* - Shivani, Uma, Tripura and myself
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