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...
by Thomas | Mar 21, 2021 | Animals, Bandhavgarh, Central India, Endangered Species, Featured, India
After the amazing sighting of the sub-adult Tigers at one far end of Bandhavgarh National Park, we headed back in the direction of the park gates while on the lookout for more wildlife. As we passed a man-made water saucer adjacent to the road, one of the last...
by Thomas | Feb 21, 2021 | Animals, Bandhavgarh, Central India, Endangered Species, Featured, India
On this safari in Bandhavgarh National Park, we headed off to a different area, since we heard that sub-adult cubs of another Tigress were spotted on the previous drive. We drove all over the area, but we could not find the cubs. Then one of the cubs came into a...
by Thomas | Jan 24, 2021 | Animals, Bandhavgarh, Central India, Endangered Species, Featured, India
Our maiden trip to Bandhavgarh National Park kept us wondering why we didn’t come to this park much earlier. On this first drive into Bandhavgarh, we drove along for a while on a cold wintery morning with no sightings of wildlife. We blamed it on the cold...
by Thomas | Jan 17, 2021 | Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, India, Nagarhole, South India
We wanted to describe an interesting experience with Wild Dogs, commonly known as Dhole, in Kabini. While we were on this drive in Kabini, we spotted a pack of three Wild Dogs strolling ahead of us on the tracks. We stopped to take a picture of the three moving in...