by Thomas | Jan 1, 2021 | Africa, Animals, Central India, Endangered Species, Featured, India, Kanha, Kenya, Maasai Mara, Nagarhole, Serengeti, South India, Tanzania
Happy 2021 to all of you! Keeping in line with our practice of reliving the best wildlife moments of 2020, we have put together a compilation of the best experience we had in each of our favourite locations. The best wildlife experience of 2020 has a clear winner in...
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 | Feb 9, 2020 | Animals, Bandipur, Endangered Species, Featured, India, South India
Like I said in my earlier post on visiting Bandipur during the monsoon – the wilderness has much more to offer, if you are willing to look beyond Tigers. And this sighting of a huge Tusker wallowing in sticky clay goes to prove that point and more. Not just was...
by Thomas | Jan 19, 2020 | Animals, Bandipur, Birds, Endangered Species, Featured, India, South India
I was resting in the sit-out of my cottage in Jungle Lodges property in Bandipur National Park when I spotted Munia’s flying back and forth from the next cottage. I instinctively knew that there was a nest somewhere on the roof of that cottage and it...
by Thomas | Jun 23, 2019 | Animals, Bandipur, Endangered Species, Featured, India, South India
After the spectacular sighting (Cat walk in Bandipur) of the male Leopard, we headed to the other side of Bandipur National Park and when we were exiting the park, we saw this huge boulder hidden in the Lantana, read Elephant. We switched off the engine and waited to...
by Thomas | Jun 2, 2019 | Animals, Bandipur, Endangered Species, Featured, India, South India
This particular evening safari in Bandipur was an adrenaline rush given that we heard the alarm calls of a Barking Deer. Then we heard what looked like a struggle inside the bushes and then silence – which only meant that a predator had killed the Barking Deer....
by Thomas | May 5, 2019 | Animals, Bandipur, Endangered Species, Featured, India, South India
We drove into Bandipur on this morning safari and yet again spotted a beautiful Leopard that was sitting on a tree. The leopard was in no mood to get off the tree and that presented a lovely sighting. Leopard on a tree in Bandipur Leopard on a tree in Bandipur...
by Thomas | Apr 7, 2019 | Animals, Bandipur, Endangered Species, Featured, India, South India
Sighting a Leopard on a rock is always so exciting. We were about to start our safari into Bandipur National Park and just before we ventured into the forest, we heard Spotted Deer alarm calls right beside the national highway running through the park. Soon someone...
by Thomas | Mar 10, 2019 | Animals, Bandipur, Birds, Endangered Species, Featured, India, South India
This morning as we went on our safari in to the Bandipur National Park, we spotted a sparring pair of Chital, commonly known as Spotted Deer. They made a lovely composition. The ever shy Indian Pond Terrapin that was sun-bathing also made for a beautiful image, along...
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...
