by Thomas | May 15, 2022 | Animals, Birds, Featured, India, Madikeri, South India
Birding at Coorg Wilderness Resort is always exciting and rewarding, especially when one can photograph from the luxury of the valley-view Suites at CWR. This time around my arm chair photography yielded some nice frames. Enjoy !
by Thomas | Apr 24, 2022 | Birds, Featured, India, Madikeri, South India
Today was another productive day of birding at Coorg Wilderness Resort (CWR). Like I mentioned before, one just has to sit in the balcony of the luxurious suite of CWR and take in the glorious valley view. And birds will come calling at regular intervals. Here’s...
by Thomas | Apr 17, 2022 | Birds, Featured, India, Madikeri, South India
We have seen the Vernal Hanging Parrot an infinite number of times during our various escapades to the Indian wilderness. However our attempts to photograph them were unsuccessful, until we saw these tiny wonders feasting on the fruiting trees at Coorg Wilderness...
by Thomas | Apr 10, 2022 | Birds, Featured, India, Madikeri, South India
We take you once again to the secret luxury birding haven called Coorg Wilderness Resort tucked away in the town of Madikeri, Coorg, Karnataka. Let me tell you that Coorg Wilderness Resort (CWR) always has a pleasant surprise waiting for you. Soon after we checked...
by Thomas | Apr 3, 2022 | Animals, Birds, Endangered Species, Featured, India, Nagarhole, South India
On this drive in Kabini Backwaters in the famous Nagarhole National Park, Karnataka, India we came to a huge waterbody in the middle of the park. We waited to soak in the amazing tranquility of this waterbody, when an Asiatic Elephant, one with huge tusks, came by. We...
by Thomas | Mar 27, 2022 | Birds, Endangered Species, Featured, India, Nagarhole, South India
When you mention Kabini Backwaters in Nagarhole National Park, the first thing that comes to mind are the amazing sightings of Tigers, Leopards, Wild Dogs & Asiatic Elephants. But Kabini is also a fantastic place for birding, and it surely is one of the best...
by Thomas | Feb 27, 2022 | Birds, Chikmagalur, Featured, India, South India
Chikmagalur turned out to be an amazing birding destination, as you would have seen from our previous post. But the cherry on the cake was watching and photographing a flock of Plum-headed Parakeets skilfully foraging or should I say harvesting paddy. It was...
by Thomas | Feb 20, 2022 | Birds, Chikmagalur, Featured, India, South India
After many years, we made a trip to Chikmagalur. We first stayed at Primrose Villas for a few days and then at the more remote Flameback Lodges. Both the places turned out to be birding havens and we came back with frame-filling compositions of these small wonders....
by Thomas | Jan 9, 2022 | Birds, Endangered Species, Featured, India, North India, Ranthambore
Ranthambore National Park is home to many species of birds, and its unfortunate that most of us are only after the the majestic Tigers and we were no exception to this rule. However, we did take a few pictures of some of the birds in the park, that we have complied in...
by Thomas | Jan 2, 2022 | Birds, Endangered Species, Featured, India, North India, Ranthambore
Wishing all our readers a very happy 2022! Continuing with our series on Ranthambore National Park, in today’s post we feature the Eurasian Eagle Owl – a not so easy species to photograph. However, we were treated to an amazing sighting of them in...
