Adventures Into The Wild

The images below are of Noor (T39) dragging her kill and then sitting in water. We had seen Noor stalk  Gaur on the first day and even had seen her try and make a kill on the second day morning. However, it was around 12 when she succeeded and dragged her kill across a river bed and into a small water hole.

All the images below are of Noor, we saw her at various times in the day. Each time was very different. We saw her walk with her cubs, drag a kill and bask in the sun etc. Noor T39 Noor T39 Noor T39 Noor T39 Noor T39 Noor T39 Noor T39 Noor T39 Noor T39 Noor T39 with kill  Noor T39 with kill

T60's cubs on the second day were found lazing on the road acting as a roadblock. They spend about 10 minutes on the road before getting up and moving away. The cubs are approximately 20 months old and are now seen often without their mother .  All the pictures below are of T60's cubs.

 We started the full day trip to Ranthambore with a bang, within the first hour we were greeted by Noor (T39).We had the pleasure of photographing her for a long time as the tigress is rather bold.  After Noor receded into a water hole far away we came across the pug marks of a  tiger cub. We followed the pug marks to find  T60 and three cubs sitting in shade a few feet away from the road. Very soon they crossed the road and went into shrubs to further cool down. The images below are of Noor, T60 and T60's cubs. Noor T39 Noor T39   Noor T39  Noor T39  Noor T39   Noor T39   Noor T39  Noor T39   T60 and cubs T60 and cubs Noor T39 Noor T39 Noor T39 Noor T39 T60 Cubs  

My Ranthambore trip with toehold has been a smashing success with over 16 different tigers seen and over 50 different sighting over the course of 3 full days. During the trip, cards filled and batteries died yet I have over 160 GB of images from the three days alone. I am still going through the images so pictures will be posted over the next few weeks.

It was a windy Sunday afternoon when we went to the hide on the outskirts of Bangalore. We did not see too many birds and the ones that were there were very jumpy. Below are the pictures of the birds we did see. Black-rumped flameback Black-rumped flameback White-Rumped Munia` Jungle Bush Quail White-browed bulbul Dove Asian Koel Asian Koel Dove Sun bird Red-Whiskered Bulbul Oriental magpie-robin Coppersmith Barbet Coppersmith Barbet Bush Warbler White-browed bulbul