Yet another visit to Kabini, and even this time it was extremely fruitful. Though I didn't see any big cats, I came back quite satisfied with a lot of excellent sightings and some good experiences.

On one of the mornings we were on the regular safari trail where we found this Monitor Lizard sitting peacefully in a small pool of water. Since being ( Read more... )

Its been one amazing week. It started off with a friend of mine who bought himself a new car and wanted to take it out of the city for a day long drive. He was determined to go to BR hills and we left very early in the morning so that we could return on the same day. The omens were good as a mongoose crossed our path and our visit to BR Hills was ( Read more... )

 

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A sudden trip due to some other plans getting cancelled resulted in one of the best experiences of my life so far. I got to spend a few days in the jungles of karnataka and experienced some of the best wildlife in this part of India.

We came across a water hole and were looking at a sambar deer when suddenly one of my friends spotted him just ( Read more... )

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iPhone seems to be a little over intelligent. While traveling last week, I plugged my iPhone into my friend's car stereo system via USB. My friend had not setup the time on his stereo system since it was newly installed and the iPhone happily synced the time with the time from the car stereo.
Then my watch battery gave way... and so even with time ( Read more... )

Last sunday, me, amoghavarsha ,anushsh ,vijay and my cousin prada (AKA Appu) decided to go for a one day trip to chikamglur district and visit muthodi forest.

The highlight of the trip was the egyptian vulture that we found en route to chikmaglur. It was feeding on the carcass of a dead ox by the look of things. It seemed to be a resident vulture and kept coming back ( Read more... )

Made a small trip to Masinagudi last week wit a few friends.  Didn't have much luck wit wildlife except for the Changeable Hawk Eagle we saw early in the morning,  
The bus safari at Bandipur was horrible. A bus load of people were screaming, laughing and not really interested in seeing any wildlife as such. These are the same people who then ( Read more... )

 Me and four friends set off for Kabini in the early hours of Sunday. With confirmed bookings, I was personally excited about this trip as I had seen some very good photographs and heard a lot of good things about Kabini and the JLR property.

En route, we decide to stop at the Karanji Lake in Mysore to do some birding. We spotted a blue tailed ( Read more... )

When the Gods created Earth, they must have thought long and hard to make Kabini so brilliantly beautiful ( Read more... )