Comments | deponti: Sultanpur Bird Sanctuary Visit, 4 Nov 2006

deponti

Sultanpur Bird Sanctuary Visit, 4 Nov 2006

Nov 07, 2006 14:20

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It was a little difficult, after having got home from a Sangeet ceremony for someone's wedding, and gone to sleep at past 2 am, to leave at 5.30 am...so we sort of managed at 6 am instead. We followed AMS' excellent directions and found AMS, Hassath and Ammu waiting for us on the Jaipur highway, and proceeded to the Sanctuary.

( Lots of pictures and the account under this cut.Some were taken by KM,some by me, and several by Abhijit, so I can't give proper credits... )

sultanpur, photography, nilgai

Comments 7

usha123 November 7 2006, 13:27:13 UTC

'I didn't know birds could be so aggressive towards mammals'

Remember 'The Birds' (Alfred Hitchcock)? :-)

deponti November 7 2006, 14:14:37 UTC

yes, I do, but that was fiction!

suzan_s November 7 2006, 14:33:28 UTC

I am a bit jealous! I haven't been out with a group of experienced Birders since LAST YEAR! Great pics. I love the galloping Nilgai and the White Throated Kingfisher is awesome.

deponti November 7 2006, 14:51:11 UTC

well...plan a trip to India next winter and I promise to take you birding with the best birders I know (and whom YOU do, too!)

shortiyergirl November 8 2006, 04:35:44 UTC

Loved the photo of the crane. The post made me want to run away from the daily humdrum and bond with nature. Luckily we have a long weekend coming up at the end of the month....

shortiyergirl November 8 2006, 04:44:03 UTC

err, I meant egret? Clearly I don't know my birds...

deponti November 8 2006, 04:54:20 UTC

Oh, that's perfectly OK...you are into birding/wildlife when you stop referring to "common eagle", "parrots", and "rabbits" and start calling them "black kites", "parakeets", and "hares"!

I am not terribly keen on precise names ..it is more important to me that people enjoy the sight of the birds and get interested! Believe me, I open my book at warblers and there are 7 pages of them all looking quite alike to ME...and I am expected to tell them apart after spotting them for about 2.26 seconds....

There ARE cranes, of course...the most beautiful is the Saras crane.