by Thomas | Jul 11, 2021 | Animals, Featured, India, Nagarhole, South India
Spotted Deer, commonly known as Chital, are omnipresent in the Indian Wilderness and you get to see them in big herds by the Kabini Backwaters, in Nagarhole National Park. If you spend some time observing them, you might get rewarded with some amazing photo...
by Thomas | May 16, 2021 | Animals, Bandhavgarh, Central India, Endangered Species, Featured, India
While on a safari in the Bandhavgarh National Park we heard from another driver that someone had spotted the sub-adult cubs of Dotty, the Tigress who owned this particular territory within the park. We drove around for a while in their search, but could not find them....
by Thomas | May 9, 2021 | Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, India, Nagarhole, South India
The pe-monsoon showers had turned Kabini into a lush green paradise and the ambience looked splashed with extra saturation of colours wherever you looked. This is also the rutting time for the Chitals and squabbles amongst probable suitors. We saw a couple of Chital...
by Thomas | Mar 14, 2021 | Animals, Featured, India, Nagarhole, South India
We were on an evening safari in Kabini backwaters and were passing through an area, when we got the stench of an old carcass. And soon enough we spotted a Red-headed Vulture – one of the prime scavengers of the Indian forests. We caught a couple of pictures...
by Thomas | Aug 30, 2020 | Animals, Bandipur, Endangered Species, Featured, India, South India
How may of us who have visited Indian Forests have seen a Chital (Spotted Deer) or for that matter a Ruddy Mongoose. The resounding answer would be all of us. However if we check the same audience, as to whether they have seen a sub-adult Chital suckling its mother or...
by Thomas | Feb 17, 2019 | Animals, Bandipur, Birds, Endangered Species, Featured, India, South India
During this trip to Bandipur we sighted many birds, including one of the elusive raptors – the Black Eagle, that is said to be rarer than Tigers. Some of the birds that we saw, we shared them in the previous post on Birding in Bandipur. If you are on the...
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 | Nov 1, 2015 | Animals, Bandipur, Birds, Endangered Species, Featured, India, South India
We had some exciting sightings during this trip to the Bandipur National Park. And the sheer variety of wildlife sightings made it a memorable trip. We would rank this visit as one of our best ones to Bandipur. In this post, we wanted to showcase some of the amazing...
by Thomas | Dec 28, 2014 | Animals, Bandipur, Endangered Species, India, South India
It had been raining Leopards on this particular trip to Bandipur National Park. After the lovely sighting of the perfectly camouflaged Leopard, we again sighted a Leopard with a Spotted Deer kill while on this safari. Once again the Leopard had chosen a tree that...
by Thomas | Nov 30, 2014 | Animals, Bandipur, Endangered Species, India, South India
The fresh lush green forest cover and the high density of prey species in Bandipur National Park like Spotted Deer (above) and Gaur are an indicator of a good monsoon. We were positive that we would get to see one of the three predators; the Tiger, Leopard or the Wild...
