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 just 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 Karnatakaand was designated as a tiger reserve in 2007.The jungle is also home to several varieties of reptiles and almost 300 varieties of birds.
Birds I Saw:
Puff-Throated Babbler
Orange Headed Thrush
Brown -cheeked Fulvetta
Flame Throated Bulbul
White-Rumped Shama
Indian Blackbird Female
Indian Blackbird Male
Emerald Dove
Flock of Oriental White Eye On Bird Bath (Dark fronted Babbler on perch)
The weekend before school started my father and I visited a bird hide close to Bangalore which has a wide variety of birds and reptiles. The hide is close to my house and hardly took an hour and a half to reach. The hide is on barren land, a part of which was converted by the owner into the hide.This sort of photography was a new and interesting experience for me and I thoroughly enjoyed it. We saw over fifteen species of birds in the two and a half hours we spent over there. The area around the hide has a rain fed river because of which birds like the Jerdon's Leafbird and the Coppersmith Barbet visit the hide. The hide allowed me to practice my photography skills in a controlled environment. Yellow-Billed Babbler White-browed bulbul Indian Chameleon Spotted Dove Coppersmith Barbet Jerdon's Leafbird
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.
Sundarbans is a majestic place that I feel one must visit at least once in their life time. It is very different from all the jungles I have visited till now. Two major differences were that it was not accessible by jeep but rather by boat and that the tide level mattered more than the light. The tide in a six hour period varies by almost two meters. We landed in Kolkata airport to find a queue of 50 people waiting for prepaid cabs in the airport , after a thirty minute wait we decided to try our luck outside. After three failed attempts to hail a cab we finally managed to get a cab. It took us an hour and a half to reach our hotel as we had to travel through the jam packed roads of Kolkata. On our way to the hotel we saw many different sights. 2 October 2014 A group of 14 including three guides set of from Kolkata airport in a Force Tempo traveller at 9 o'clock and in three hours we reached the Godkhali Port. There we got onto a ...
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