by Thomas | Dec 19, 2021 | Animals, Birds, Endangered Species, Featured, India, North India, Ranthambore
We were driving around in Ranthambore National Park on a morning safari, when we heard alarm calls of a Sambar Deer. We turned around and headed in the direction of the alarm calls. This part being a hilly terrain, our progress was slow and when we reached the area of...
by Thomas | Dec 12, 2021 | Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, India, North India, Ranthambore
In case you didn’t see part 1 of this post where we tracked one of the twin princesses of Ranthambore, please check out that post here. We had ended part 1 leaving behind one of the twin sisters resting in the tall grass by the lake. What she did next can be...
by Thomas | Dec 5, 2021 | Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, India, North India, Ranthambore
After the spectacular sighting of the Tiger Queen of Ranthambore, popularly known as Arrowhead, in the afternoon, we set out to get a glimpse out the twin princesses of Ranthambore. The local guides in the Ranthambore National park affectionally call them Riddhi and...
by Thomas | Nov 28, 2021 | Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, India, North India, Ranthambore
Continuing from where we left off in the previous post, the Queen of Ranthambore, Arrowhead made a grand appearance and emerged from the tall grass in full view of the many jeeps that were waiting to get a glimpse of her. Fortunately for her, she chose the exact spot...
by Thomas | Nov 21, 2021 | Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, India, North India, Ranthambore
We were on the first drive of our last trip to the Ranthambore National Park. On this trip we had made up our mind that we will begin our drives when there is adequate sunlight to photograph. So no more struggling to spot fauna in the dark hours before dawn. We also...
by Thomas | Sep 12, 2021 | Animals, Bandhavgarh, Birds, Central India, Endangered Species, Featured, India
We were on our last safari in Bandhavgarh National Park and were hoping to sign off in style with a good Tiger sighting. We started off our drive and spotted this Langur with a young one clinging to it. Given that it was on the forest floor, it looked very anxious and...
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 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...
by Thomas | May 16, 2021 | Animals, Bandhavgarh, Central India, Endangered Species, Featured, India
While on a safari in the Bandhavgarh National Park we heard from another driver that someone had spotted the sub-adult cubs of Dotty, the Tigress who owned this particular territory within the park. We drove around for a while in their search, but could not find them....
by Thomas | Apr 18, 2021 | Animals, Bandhavgarh, Central India, Endangered Species, Featured, India
We started our morning safari into the Bandhavgarh National Park. The temperature was below 5 degrees as we waited at the gates to get into the park. It was still pretty dark as well as we entered the park. Here’s a glimpse of the camera-unfriendly weather as we...
