Trip to Kanha Bandhavgarh

Phew !

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 !