Adventures Into The Wild

A Flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down. A bird’s eye takes up about 50 percent of its head; our eyes take up about 5 percent of our head. A bird's heart beats 400 times per minute while resting and up to 1000 beats per minute while flying. The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers.   The Peregrine Falcon is the fastest bird in the world, flying up to 220 miles per hour Some birds hide their eggs in other birds' nests so that another bird will feed them. The Cuckoo bird is known for this, and is called a "brood parasite."

For my christmas break I took a short trip to Dandeli where apart from Photography I did some white water Rafting in the river Kali.We stayed at OMH(Old Magazine House). Over 35 species of birds can easily be photographed here. At OMH one j ust sits all day under the tree to photograph  birds that are   not so easy to photograph.These birds come to drink water from the clay bird baths which were put by foreigners oh so long ago.The birds here are so used to bird photographers that they are completely accustomed  to the shutter sound. Dandeli  is a town in  Uttara Kannada  district of  Karnataka , India, in the  Western Ghats  region in  North Karnataka . Dandeli is a natural habitat for wildlife, including tigers, leopards, black panthers, elephants, gaur, deer, antelopes, and bears.   It is the second largest wildlife sanctuary in Karnataka   and was designated as a tiger reserve in 2007.   The jungle is also home to several varieties of reptiles and almost 300 varieties of b