by Thomas | Jan 23, 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 | Nov 22, 2020 | Animals, Bandipur, Endangered Species, Featured, India, South India
During one of our drives into the Bandipur National Park, we spotted a Tiger that was sleeping in the bushes. It did sit up for a minute and look at us before going back to sleep again. We waited patiently for him to come out of the bushes to drink water at the...
by Thomas | Nov 1, 2020 | Animals, Bandipur, Birds, Endangered Species, Featured, India, South India
On one of our drives into Bandipur National Park, we spotted this male Shikra next to a waterhole. It should have come by to quench its thirst and gave us a few minutes to get a couple of pictures, before it flew away. The Grey-backed Shrike was an accidental catch. I...
by Thomas | Oct 11, 2020 | Animals, Bandipur, Endangered Species, Featured, India, South India
As we were exiting the Bandipur National Park, in Southern India, our naturalist spotted this Sloth Bear scuttling across the state highway that running through the park. We caught this fleeting image of the Sloth Bear before it disappeared into the Lantana. We were...
by Thomas | Sep 20, 2020 | Featured
We have seen and photographed the spectacular courtship dance of the Peacock in the Indian Wilderness. But every time, it amazes us how there is a slight variation to the experience. And this time around it was an incredible experience, once again. We were on a safari...
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 | Aug 9, 2020 | Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, India, Nagarhole, South India
This is the second part (you can read the first part here) of the sighting of the anxious sub-adult Tigress that we spotted in Kabini. When her calls weren’t answered by either her mother or siblings, the Tigress finally got up and walked off in the direction of...
by Thomas | Aug 2, 2020 | Animals, Central India, Endangered Species, Featured, India, Kanha
In the earlier post, when we described the sighting of the Tigress with a cub in Kanha National Park, we mentioned the Barasingha, whose distress calls led us to the Tiger. We decided to dedicate a full post to that incredible experience of observing a Barasingha in...
by Thomas | Jul 19, 2020 | Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, India, Nagarhole, South India
This was our last safari of this particular visit to Kabini and we hoped to catch a glimpse of a Tiger. Our wishes were granted in abundance when we sighted a sub-adult Tigress sitting next to a tree. It was clear that she was missing her mother and her two siblings....