Hi Creeps
I’ve just received my M Sc. examination results. I scored 62 % (first class) and am pretty pleased about it. I feel great being a post graduate. My subject was ‘Ecology and Environmental Sciences’ and the entire course, which I completed through correspondence from the Sikkim Manipal University, was pretty good. I highly recommend it instead of regular university which won’t even pay you a salary for being there everyday from 9-5.
My Contact Information:
Rahul Alvares, Almeida Vaddo, Parra, Bardez, Goa - 403510
Email: [email protected] [email protected] / [email protected]
Phone: Res: 91-832-2278740
5621724
Mob: 9326115883 (rarely used)
Also, visit my Website: www.geocities.com/rahulsnakesite
Picture from a birding trip at Thivim; We roped in the charismatic local youth and my old time best friend/classmate Reuben (centre) Coutino to take us to some good birding sites in Thivim. The birding was not that great as we reached there a little late.
But the sites we visited were awesome. Have a look below. We do plan to camp there one night. If you are interested let us know.
Also in the picture are legendary boomslang slayer and avid birdwatcher Nitin Naik (extreme right), and Crested Cuckoo Serpent Head Rahul Alvares.
Wild Life Celebrity Nirmal Kulkarni
Nirmal Kulkarni; Nirmal’s fire for wildlife was sparked while watching Maneka Gandhi’s program Heads and Tails on TV. At that time he says there was no one else involved in working with wildlife and the whole idea of starting something different appealed to him immensely. A wildlife photographer Nirmal has been working with lesser known fauna (reptiles, amphibians and insects) for the past six years. Being a snake handler Nirmal started photography clicking slides which were needed for his work involving wildlife awareness talks and snake education programmes. His work is on display and use at the state museum, in several of the Forest Department’s brochures and in different wildlife books. Most of Nirmal’s documentation and photography work is carried out in the Mahadai Wildlife Sanctuary and the Molem National Park.
Nirmal is presently employed as the Ecologist and Director of the Wildernest Nature Resort located way up in the Chorla Ghats. His plans are to set up a conservation facility for the documentation of the biodiversity of the Sahyadris where students can join in and get an opportunity to work with the wildlife existing there.
What Nirmal loves most about his work is the adventure involved. He says that it also gives him immense job satisfaction. As advice to anyone interested in following this line he says that it is important to choose one’s area of specialization. Too many people try to do too many things all at the same time and never achieve anything in the process.
Get the buzz on him at 3107079, 5642234.
This is an absolutely great book on birds. I’ve got a copy myself and so has Nitin Naik. I also have Salim Ali’s Birds of India which is still one of the best books for a beginner. But this book has a charm of its own. Unlike Salim Ali’s book which has only illustrations, Birds of Western Ghats has 1700 colour photographs!
The photographs are simply amazing and make the identification of birds in the field much easier than when using books having only illustrations. The descriptions for the birds also have been nicely done. Besides identification characteristics, breeding, feeding etc, the notes also include valuable information for bird identification such as phonetic description of the sounds of bird calls, marathi and hindi names of the birds, etc.
This book is a ‘must have’.
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Price; 995 (as usual I offer a small discount if you buy the book from me)
The new breed of ‘Life Guard’.
In the quiet village of Parra there once lived a bearded man named Subhash. Some would call him a drunk, other’s (us) knew him to be an eccentric, a man way ahead of his time. Subhash may never have worked. Nor may he have every cut his beard. But sporting a rugged ‘Robinson Cruso’ look with his shit always unbuttoned to expose a copiously haired chest he brought joy and laughter to the village.
This true life story is based on truthful events that took place true...sorry two to three years ago. Sadly Subhash suddenly disappeared from the face of the earth at that time. It was a shattering blow for all of us – kind of what happened when Robinson ran off suddenly from the island he lived on leaving only a small note carved out with the claw of a junglee crab on a tiny, tiny jungle leaf.
This small write up is a tribute to the bearded legend Subhash. The editor of Creepy Times now carries on the work Subhash devoted himself to – rat killing. This bandicoot trapped by a village elder had to be put down after two pythons refused to eat it.
It has now returned to dust and rests in pieces.
Life in the village continues.