An awesome week long vacation to Kanha and Bandhavgarh National parks !
And here comes the pictures :)
Lets start with state bird of Karnataka, the Indian Roller. Here is a profile pic of it.
After lunch one day, in Kanha, I see an Indian Roller sitting on a tree in front of our log hut. I had to take pics of it :)
It ended up me chasing the bird around the resort, clicking some 300 pics of the same bird !
It was like shooting a model, it went on posing, I went on clicking !
Only thing that was missing was, I just couldn't take a good pic of it flying :-( But, in Bandhavgarh, while waiting for a tiger to show up (it did not) , I get a chance to shoot this pic. This is Indian Roller, flying !
Another beautiful bird I loved is Shikra. It's a small (comparatively ) bird of prey.
Look at those glowing red eyes !
Here is another pic :
If anyone calls you Goobe in Kannada, never get upset anymore. They actually mean, 'you are cute' :-)
Here is a rare jungle owlet :
And common spotted owlets:
One more:
Birds of prey are always majestic to look at. Following are an Indian Vulture, Crested Serpent Eagle and Changeable Hawk Eagle respectively :
One rare sighting was that of a Porcupine ! Apparently they are nocturnal, and aren't easy to find in day light. But little fella graced us with his presence !
Though it looks cute n all, it is a very dangerous animal. Even tigers are known getting hurt by these !
Okay. Lets look at some Tigers !
Her name is Kankati, Kan = Ear in Hindi, kati =torn .
She is around 5 years old. Apparently, she got into a teritorial fight with other tigress and killed her. During that fight, she lost her left eye. Also her right ear is cut.
Here she is walking past our jeep ! She was walking very near to us !
Boy o Boy o Boy !
All in all, it was fantastic ! More picture are here in my flickr page:
Let me know what you think !
