by Thomas | Jan 27, 2019 | Animals, Birds, Endangered Species, Featured, India, Nagarhole, South India
We did a short trip to Kabini, our favourite destination that’s a quick 4 hours drive from home. We saw a few Elephants on an otherwise dry first safari. The following morning safari, to start with, we spotted a Malabar Pied Hornbill . Then we saw this Spotted...
by Thomas | Jan 13, 2019 | Animals, Bandipur, Birds, Endangered Species, Featured, India, South India
Bandipur National Park is almost home considering the fact that it is less than 4 hours drive from Bangalore. On this trip to Bandipur, our first couple of safari yielded a rich harvest of bird portraits. Here are a few birds that caught our attention. The common...
by Thomas | Jan 6, 2019 | Africa, Amboseli, Animals, Bandipur, Central India, Endangered Species, Featured, India, Kenya, South India, Tadoba, Valparai
In this first post of 2019, we want to pause and look back at the best of Walk the Wilderness in 2018. The most popular post of 2018 in terms of number of hits was the rare sighting of mating Hyenas in Amboseli National park. The Wagdoh male – probably the...
by Thomas | Dec 16, 2018 | Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, India, Nagarhole, South India
We were on our last drive into the Nagarhole National Park when we heard Chital alarm calls deep inside the Kabini Tiger Reserve. We rushed back to the area, only to have missed a Leopard that the other Jeep had just sighted. We were cursing our luck when we heard the...
by Thomas | Nov 18, 2018 | Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, India, Nagarhole, South India
We saw a Tigress, popularly known as the backwaters female, in dying light on the first safari on this trip to the Kabini Tiger Reserve. We went on several safaris after that, but did not see a Tiger again. On our final safari of this trip in Kabini, we were hopeful...
