The Streams too begin to dry up and only the pools in large stream beds and some springs in the hills and nalas in the valleys hold the water. The sal trees shed leaves in February-March. But almost simultaneously, new leaves grow. So when the other deciduous trees are bare, a sal forest wears leaves of the freshest green, even as the ground is carpetted with dead ones. The wildlife moves down the hill to concentrate in the sal forests.
Fire flies rise and tabanid flies on the meadows and mosquitoes in the forest become active.
The lilies in the meadows sprout and flower and the sal trees form myriad patterns in the evening sun. The vegetation changes to intense green. The leaves on deciduous trees unfold. Grasses sprout and by mid-July are two feet high. This is the fawning period for herbivores.