by Thomas | Aug 15, 2021 | Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, India, Nagarhole, South India
We were on our last safari of this trip in the Kabini backwaters of the Nagarhole National Park. Little were we aware that we would be ending our trip on a high. Many of us would have sighted a Spotted Deer mother with a suckling Fawn, however two Fawns suckling at...
by Thomas | Aug 8, 2021 | Africa, Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, Kenya, Maasai Mara
Spotting a Black Rhinoceros, one of the endangered Big Five in Africa, is an amazing experience. And observing one as the only tourists around one who was foraging and kept moving closer to our vehicle in Maasai Mara, was taking it to a totally different level of...
by Thomas | Aug 1, 2021 | Animals, Birds, Featured, India, Nagarhole, South India
The Indian wilderness comes alive during the monsoons and Kabini backwaters is a great place to witness the vibrant lush green forests of India. Its also a time when you get to see huge herds of Chital or Spotted Deer and Chital stags with their gorgeous antlers. The...
by Thomas | Jul 25, 2021 | Africa, Animals, Birds, Endangered Species, Featured, Kenya, Maasai Mara
A game drive in Maasai Mara is always exciting given the wide variety of birds and animals. On this drive we got within striking (photography) distance to get some lovely pictures of two of the Big 5’s and frame filling compositions of the Hadeda Ibis. The...
by Thomas | Jul 18, 2021 | Birds, Endangered Species, Featured, India, Madikeri, South India
Within a few hours of patiently waiting, from the comfort of the balcony of one of the suites at Coorg Wilderness Resort, I was rewarded with some lovely pictures of these winged visitors. It was just that the perches they frequently perched on were a little distant...
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 | Jul 4, 2021 | Animals, Bandhavgarh, Central India, Endangered Species, Featured, India
Continuing with our story of sighting the Tiger siblings in Bandhavgarh National Park – after Jobhi, the dominant female confronted one of the siblings, we waited with bated breath to see what would happen next. But fortunately for the second Tiger cub, the...
by Thomas | Jun 27, 2021 | Africa, Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, Kenya, Maasai Mara
This post is a continuation of our sighting when we were watching an African Lion feasting on an Elephant carcass in Masaai Mara. We were at a distance and our driver was trying to figure out the best way around to get a closer look without getting stuck in the swampy...
by Thomas | Jun 20, 2021 | Birds, Featured, India, Madikeri, South India
This Juvenile Malabar Whistling Thrush sat right outside my Suite in Coorg Wilderness Resort and kept calling for its parents. Fortunately it also gave me an opportunity to take enough and more pictures to make a portrait collection of his amazing whistler. Wow, what...
by Thomas | Jun 13, 2021 | Animals, Bandhavgarh, Central India, Endangered Species, Featured, India
The Tiger brothers in Bandhavgarh who we were tracking had clearly caught the scent of a Tiger, as evident from their facial gestures. They took some more time to catch the scent and headed off gingerly along the tracks. The earlier aimless ambling had turned into a...
