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RV Matters · 13 September 2024
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Looks pretty, right? No wonder it is called Senna spectabilis, which means “spectacular, showy”. An apt name indeed. We have this tree, a native of central and South America, in several parts of our campus. It appears th
RV Matters · 9 September 2024
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When did you last see a Palm Civet on campus? I have been asking myself this question for a few weeks now and after going through my old field notebooks, I find that it is almost a decade since I last saw one here. Befor
RV Matters · 3 September 2024
RV Matters, 30th August' 2024
I saw this medium-sized butterfly fluttering on our terrace this afternoon (13:50 hrs). It appeared restless and also seemed somewhat disoriented having bumped into the whitewashed wall three times as it flew across the
RV Matters · 20 January 2023
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December 2022 was a hectic month for birdwatchers. With the Percolation Tank receiving copious supply of water, it began overflowing for a third consecutive year! With the increase in water in the Valley, a lot of our at
RV Matters · 4 November 2022
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It has been a busy month for me, having had to travel twice out of the campus and so I could not catch up with my contributions to this web-page. I shall try to give a birds’ eye view of things that took place since I la
Sports · 25 September 2022
Sports Day 2022 Tabloid
Magazine, News The school celebrated the 2022 Annual Sports Day events between 12 Sep and 13 Sep 2022. Class 8 students produced tabloids covering the three day events. You can view/download them here. Day 1 Tabloid \| D
RV Matters · 24 September 2022
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The Baya Weaver colony that has about half a dozen nests built on a Ficus plant growing inside the Malli Baavi has been active over the past few weeks. In the first week of September, the adults were seen bringing in ins
RV Matters · 9 September 2022
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After seeing the Knob-billed Duck in the campus, there was yet another sighting of ducks at our Percolation tank. I had visited the tank on Friday (September 2) morning, enjoying the scene in front of me. It was a clear
RV Matters · 29 August 2022
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This morning, I went out with my brand new camera, eager to try it out and see how it performs. This was despite the overcast skies with dark grey clouds hovering low over the valley. The soil was wet and squishy after t
RV Matters · 19 August 2022
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I was watching birds at the paddy-fields in our School campus, that had recently been transplanted and were covered with a sheet of water on the afternoon of 16th August 2022. A Little Egret was foraging all by itself an
RV Matters · 13 August 2022
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We always associate woodpeckers with wood-boring beetles and their larvae, ants, termites and a host of other bark-inhabiting insects which they are known to feed on. But do you know that these birds have a sweet tooth (
RV Matters · 26 July 2022
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Rishi Valley Rock Gecko On 24th July as we were watching birds, we came across this little gecko resting on the underside of a piece of loose rock close to the scrub jungles on the hill adjacent to the school campus. Ins