
Black Kite perched on a blooming Silver Oak tree
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A Black Kite (Milvus migrans) perched high among the branches of a Silver Oak (Grevillea robusta), also known as the Southern Silky Oak.
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Ooty town below Doddabetta Peak in the Western Ghats of Tamil Nadu, thick forests and lateritic red soil. A lovely plan view of Western Ghats forests taken directly from above, and looking down at the jagged top of the trees. Ooty town's buildings, roads and forest-town interfaces show up prominently, with the stark green of the forest and orange of the lateritic soil of the Western Ghats mountain system and geology. Ooty hill station, Tamil Nadu Ooty (short for Udhagamandalam) is a resort town in the Western Ghats mountains, in southern India's Tamil Nadu state. Founded as a British Raj summer resort, it retains a working steam railway line. Other reminders of its colonial past include Stone House, a 19th-century residence, and the circa-1829 St. Stephen’s Church. Its 55-acre Government B
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