by Thomas | Jan 31, 2021 | Birds, Featured, India, Madikeri, South India
Our stay at Coorg Wilderness Resort proved to be a curtain raiser to what an amazing birding hotspot the property is. Having observed and photographed a few of these birds, I decided to patiently follow them to see where they were nesting. And to my amazement, I...
by Thomas | Jan 24, 2021 | Animals, Bandhavgarh, Central India, Endangered Species, Featured, India
Our maiden trip to Bandhavgarh National Park kept us wondering why we didn’t come to this park much earlier. On this first drive into Bandhavgarh, we drove along for a while on a cold wintery morning with no sightings of wildlife. We blamed it on the cold...
by Thomas | Jan 17, 2021 | Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, India, Nagarhole, South India
We wanted to describe an interesting experience with Wild Dogs, commonly known as Dhole, in Kabini. While we were on this drive in Kabini, we spotted a pack of three Wild Dogs strolling ahead of us on the tracks. We stopped to take a picture of the three moving in...
by Thomas | Jan 10, 2021 | Africa, Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, Kenya, Maasai Mara
During our last trip to Maasai Mara, on our first game drive in the afternoon, I noticed Emanuel our driver/naturalist heading towards the Mara Serena Airstrip. I enquired to find out the reason and he pointed out that he had seen some African Lions in the area and...
by Thomas | Jan 3, 2021 | Birds, Featured, India, Madikeri, South India
In case you haven’t seen our curtain raiser post on Coorg Wilderness Resort, click here to get a preview of the amazing species of birds that you can photograph at this property. This post is dedicated to the untiring Malabar Whistling Thrush that we spotted...
by Thomas | Jan 1, 2021 | Africa, Animals, Central India, Endangered Species, Featured, India, Kanha, Kenya, Maasai Mara, Nagarhole, Serengeti, South India, Tanzania
Happy 2021 to all of you! Keeping in line with our practice of reliving the best wildlife moments of 2020, we have put together a compilation of the best experience we had in each of our favourite locations. The best wildlife experience of 2020 has a clear winner in...
by Thomas | Dec 27, 2020 | Animals, Birds, Central India, Featured, India, Kanha
Our maiden trip to Kanha National Park left us in awe of the incredibly beautiful habitat and excellent management of the park by the forest officials. Over the last few months you might have seen our posts on the beautiful park and in this last post on Kanha National...
by Thomas | Dec 20, 2020 | Africa, Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, Serengeti, Tanzania
The bold African Leopard that we described in our previous post, turned out to be one of the best Leopard sightings in Serengeti National Park. But the most memorable sighting was when we saw an African Leopard take down a Wildebeest. What makes this sighting...
by Thomas | Dec 13, 2020 | Birds, Featured, India, Madikeri, South India
We had been to Coorg, many years ago and when the lockdown opened up, we decided to spend a few days to get over the lockdown syndrome. We picked Coorg Wilderness Resort as our destination this time and what an incredible find it turned out to be. Coorg Wilderness...
by Thomas | Dec 6, 2020 | Africa, Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, Serengeti, Tanzania
Our search for a good sighting of an African Leopard in Serengeti was finally answered on our last drive into Serengeti National Park. We heard over the radio that a Leopard was spotted on a tree in Central Serengeti and we drove to that area to find this beautiful...