by Thomas | Apr 11, 2021 | Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, India, Nagarhole, South India
As we were exiting the Kabini Backwaters during one of our evening safari’s there, we spotted this huge tusker that was foraging among the woods. He stopped to take notice of us, giving us an opportunity to observe his massive tusks. The sighting of this tusker...
by Thomas | Apr 4, 2021 | Africa, Animals, Birds, Endangered Species, Featured, Kenya, Maasai Mara
During one of our evening game drive in Maasai Mara, we had a chance sighting of a Steppe Eagle. It was equally surprised to see us at such close distance, before it flew away. Given that this visit to Mara was many months after the Annual Migration was over, the...
by Thomas | Mar 21, 2021 | Animals, Bandhavgarh, Central India, Endangered Species, Featured, India
After the amazing sighting of the sub-adult Tigers at one far end of Bandhavgarh National Park, we headed back in the direction of the park gates while on the lookout for more wildlife. As we passed a man-made water saucer adjacent to the road, one of the last...
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 | Mar 7, 2021 | Africa, Animals, Featured, Kenya, Maasai Mara
The famous Cheetah brothers who we have been following along the Maasai Mara-Serengeti border, were going about their patrolling business. We hoped that they would not cross over into Serengeti as we would not be able to follow them. Lucky for us, they decided to take...
by Thomas | Feb 21, 2021 | Animals, Bandhavgarh, Central India, Endangered Species, Featured, India
On this safari in Bandhavgarh National Park, we headed off to a different area, since we heard that sub-adult cubs of another Tigress were spotted on the previous drive. We drove all over the area, but we could not find the cubs. Then one of the cubs came into a...
by Thomas | Feb 14, 2021 | Animals, Birds, Endangered Species, Featured, India, Nagarhole, South India
We were on a morning safari in Kabini and we stopped by to get a picture of an Asiatic Elephant with huge tusks. We first spotted him when he was following a herd of females. Then when he stopped, we got a couple of portrait pictures of him, before we headed off. We...
by Thomas | Feb 7, 2021 | Africa, Animals, Featured, Kenya, Maasai Mara
We spotted the famous Cheetah Brothers of Maasai Mara in their favourite area, the Kenya-Tanzania border. This time around the brothers seemed to be actively involved in patrolling their territory. They were frantically sniffing the scent of a probable intruder. 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...