Made a quick trip to the forests of Bandipura and Mudhumalai as a Naturalist [;)] this saturday with my cousin harsha and his collegues. Though the morning session was not all that good for mammals, I was glad that the company enjoyed birding around the forest. As rookies, they were quick and smart in identifying around 25-30 odd species of Birds.
These guys had something much more exciting in store than what they had expected out of this one day Nature Trail. During the evening safari, A huge male tusker gave a mock charge and everyone in the jeep started screaming ! I had a tough time in calming them down. But they really dint take a lot of time in realizing that it was a mock charge and enjoyed the show as they learnt the science behind it. It starting raining and the hopes of seeing anything else almost faded as we decided to head back towards the camp. But on the way, something crossed the road in a giffy and entered the bushes. My instincts told me that it was a Tiger. we drove quickly to the bush and got lucky enough to see a Big cat standing and giving us a fierce stare. It was a Tiger Indeed ! What can the First timers ask for ? A Tusker charge, A tiger, Ruddy and Striped necked mangooses, Peafowls, Sambars, Lots of spotted deers, all in the time span of 2 hrs !
It was one of the best wildlife trips ive made offlate ! Here, i leave you guys with a picture of an elephant playing in the water hole behind the bandipura Range office, shot with my cousin's Fujifilm digital camera (max zoom ( 10x )). Alhough i took a few pictues of the tiger, couldnt really manage to get a sharp one.. Ill have to wait till the next time.
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Hey that was indeed a very nice experience and i am still in the hangover.. :) planning for somemore in coming months. What say Avinash ;)
Sure will remember this trip whenever I see the elephant next time[:)]
Awesome experience it was. I was not scared ,when I saw tiger but elephant .. Oh God!!!
@Suma : Still in the hangover ? heh Nice to know that you had a kick of your lifetime :)
WE'll surely have more on the way.
@Sapna : NIce.. First time experience is always something cherishable.
Im impressed with the enormous interest you guys showed. Cheers to your spirit of wildlifing.
Welcome to the Club :)
wow.. spotting a tiger :)
haven't got any lucky in few of my visits there..
may be i should hang out some time with you ;-)
@Sandeep:Thanks for dropping by. For most of the people, Bandipura is an unlucky place. But atleast for me, All the Tiger sightings till date have happened there. And again, it all depends on how often one visits these places. A few tigers are not really bad for over 22 visits in an year ;)
ah hmmm.. that's a lot of visits :)
good that they'll come out to greet you once a while ;-)
@Sandeep : Yeah im a little lucky that way ;)
I rechognise this Elephant andits not a wild one it was suffering of old age and artritis, it died 4 months ago 08 the mahout left it in water because its leg had a big hole andit was septic i have its last days on my harddrive and they burnt the body whereit died during night.
@anonymous : Yep i got to know about the latter. Thanks for the info. Id really appreciate if you can share the pictures with me.
Thanks for dropping by.
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