by Thomas | Apr 21, 2019 | Animals, Birds, Endangered Species, Featured, India, Nagarhole, South India
Kabini Tiger Reserve on the backwaters of Kabini river is a haven for wildlife and is one for the post popular wildlife parks in India. We went on a morning safari and came back refreshed with some amazing portraits, as always. At first, we were confronted by this...
by Thomas | Jun 3, 2018 | Animals, Birds, Endangered Species, Featured, India, Nagarhole, South India
On this evening safari in Kabini, we had a lucky sighting of a Bengal Tiger. We first spotted the Tiger sitting in the open near a culvert on the old MM road. As soon as the Tiger realized he was spotted, before we could get our first pictures, he quickly took cover...
by Thomas | May 20, 2018 | Animals, Birds, Central India, Endangered Species, Featured, India, Pench
Just when we thought we had seen the best of the Jackals during our safari at Pench and as mentioned in the post – Day of the Jackals, it was not so. Very soon another Jackal came right up next to the safari track and soon started calling out to all other...
by Thomas | Mar 12, 2017 | Animals, Birds, Endangered Species, Featured, India, Nagarhole, South India
It had been a while since we visited Kabini and this time around we stayed at The Serai. We noticed a pair of Sunbirds feasting on the flowers next to the cottages and we got these images while I was testing out the 500mm f4 lens on my D700. The pictures of the...
by Thomas | May 17, 2015 | Birds, Endangered Species, India, Kaziranga, North East India
After many attempts, we spotted an Asian Barred Owlet perched against a relatively clear background. And that made the feature image of this post. A Grey-headed Fish Eagle was being heckled by a crow and when it looked up at the nuisance, I captured that moment as is...
by Thomas | Apr 6, 2014 | Animals, Bandipur, Birds, Endangered Species, India
We caught a gorgeous sunrise (above) as we began our final safari of this trip into Bandipur National Park and our drive took us to one of the highest points in the park from where you get a bird’s eye view of the entire Bandipur National Park. There we spotted...
by Thomas | Jun 24, 2012 | Birds, Sri Lanka
During one of our drives into the Yala National Park, we came across an Indian Roller that had caught a grasshopper and was trying to swallow it. We have captured the first episode of this Yala experience, here where you can see the Roller repeatedly beat the...
by Thomas | Mar 4, 2012 | Birds, Sri Lanka
We were driving along in the Yala Wildlife Sanctuary when we spotted an Indian Roller right in the middle of one of the safari tracks. It is common to catch this bird in the middle of the track as they keep searching for insects to feed on. However, as you get closer ...
by Thomas | Apr 18, 2010 | Birds, Endangered Species, India, Kaziranga
We enjoyed putting together this four part series on “Birds of North Eastern India” and we hope that you liked browsing through them. We start the final part with the Lesser Adjutant stork, which along with it larger cousin the Greater Adjutant is one of...
by Thomas | Dec 8, 2008 | Birds, India, Nagarhole
The Indian Roller is a colourful cousin of the European Roller and its also the State bird of Karnataka, India. They are not actually migratory by nature but do make seasonal movements. For example, in the Nagarhole national park, these beautiful species are always...
