Ranganathittu

What a boring start to the day, no electricity early in the morning.. and since i was already bored and a little irritated after last night, thought id head out to Ranganathittu. Cameras batter wasn't charged, so for a change i went only bird 'watching' :p Caught a 6AM Mysore bus from Majestic and told the driver to stop at the Ranganathittu turning, to which he agreed. Got of there and waited for a while till some unknown biker group came and i asked for a lift..dunno why, but i did.. they had supposedly ridden all the way from Delhi and were on their way to Mysore, so decided to visit Ranganathittu on the way(good for me ;) ). Anyway got in and took 3 boat rides. The first ride was quite boring with the usual Cormorants, Spoonbills, Painted Storks and Pelicans. The second round and within 5min, i had my first raptor in sight, at first glance i thought it was a CSE, on further inspection, i.e. after it perched on a tree, realized that it was a Changeable Hawk Eagle. We carried on as the TOURISTS in the boat wanted to see the other COLORFUL birds and the crocs :( :( after about 15 min i spotted another raptor and the boatman kindly pointed it out as a Lesser Fishing Eagle. Soon we had to head and i decided to take another ride in search of the raptors again. But this 3rd ride was a little boring and we couldn't spot them. Anyway it was a long walk back to the Main road and from there after waiting for 45min managed to get a local bus to Ramnagaram. Ok now im too bored to write about the Ramnagaram trip, but in short i saw 3 Long-billed Vultures perched on a branch very close to the main road. Headed back to B'lore from there and yeah thats about it... :D