Walking along the beach is so relaxing and peaceful. The tides come and go, watching the crabs digging holes, birds flying around and the cool breeze is something I keep looking forward to when I am in a land of beaches.


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This was the most sighted bird during our pelagic trip in the Arabian Sea in April this year. It was lovely to see them in large numbers and also see them fishing. They would just hover a little above the water and fish. At time, they cam quite close to the boat. Actually fishing boats are an important source of food for these birds in the sea. ( Read more... )

To get to the estuary, we had to pass by a house. We thought it might be a good idea to actually dump our bags and get into the water. I had never done that before but was looking forward to it. We had to walk along the beautiful mangrove habitat which was thrilling. But we really had to watch out while walking so that we don’t place our legs on ( Read more... )

During my last pelagic birding trip in the Arabian Sea (April first week), we had some great sightings of the Arctic Skua (Parasitic Skua). We did birding in the Mulki Coast of Karnataka and the Kannur Coast of Kerala. The sighting in Mulki was a very brief one just to be able to confirm the sighting but we had some amazing sightings at Kannur. At ( Read more... )

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We had just finished sighting in the Gibbon and were walking back the trail looking around the thick Gibbon forest. There was another group of people who still wanted to see more of Gibbon and we were walking back slowly chatting to them. Our guide cum driver Konwar was just ahead of us looking around try to see if he could show us something more ( Read more... )

After walking for a while into the forest, we stopped to look around for the Hoolock Gibbons. They move around in groups. They move around calling out loudly probably restating their territory. I loved their call. So based on their we would go tracking them into the forest. There were leeches all over the place. I had heard such horror stories ( Read more... )

On the 4th day, we headed off to Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary mainly to see the Hoolock Gibbon. We left early in the morning at about 4am to reach Gibbon. The drive was quite beautiful with open fields and small towns all along the way. Just outside the sanctuary, we saw this troop of langurs playing around. They were the Capped Langurs. Even though ( Read more... )

After 2 days of Central, Western and Eastern range, we decided to explore the other parts of Kaziranga. It was the. It is farther from other ranges of Kaziranga, so we had to leave quite early to make it there. But unfortunately out jeep broke down while we had driven a few kms. So our driver had to drop us somewhere on the road, go back and get ( Read more... )

Pallas’s Fish Eagle is probably on everybody’s wishlist. It is also not a very difficult bird to see there. But we were quite unlucky to get a good luck at this majestic raptor. We had multiple sightings but nothing very close. At one point it was just sitting behind us and none of us noticed it until it took off. The pics here are from the eastern ( Read more... )