Wildlife and Wildlife Photography - Wild Dogs, Kabini Dec'15

Kabini is a heaven for wildlife photography and photographers. It has everything you need for a good photography. It has greenery, beautiful birds, predators, elephants and the weather. It has got three predators namely, Tigers, Leopards and Wild Dogs.

Wild Dogs are called Dholes in India. They remain in packs and make sure they do not get left out. Their thinking is "United we stand, divided we fall". Whatever they do, they do it in their pack. When they are united, no one can touch them and they are ferocious, but a singular is afraid of the predators lurking around.

Their way of hunting and strategy, one needs to learn from them. They always have a strategy to hunt and everyone co-operates. One who does not, he/she will have to leave the pack. The leader is an Alpha male or the dominant Wild Dog. Everyone needs to follow his orders.

This was a group of 15-20 wild dogs playing on the Jungle Track.

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Wildlife and Wildlife Photography - Wild Dogs, Kabini Dec'15

Wild DOgs - Kabini December 2015

Wildlife and Wildlife Photography - Yellow Footed Green Pigeon, Kabini Dec'15

Yellow Footed Green Pigeon - State Bird of Maharashtra - a state of India, Mumbai is the capital of Maharashtra and Financial capital of India.

These birds are very cute, well We (my parents & brother) were on our family trip to Kabini in December 2015. Kabini is a very lush green forest and known for its wildlife. Kabini is known for leopards, it is said you visited Kabini and could not spot a leopard - no chance, so we did spot leopards both in morning and evening safari. We could not spot Tiger - once again.

We were trying to spot Tiger, though it was early morning and fog had set in - bad situation for spotting, we came across these Yellow footed green pigeon. Lovely and attractive birds they are, there were total 5 of them, and then a pair flew and sat on a branch.

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Wildlife and Wildlife Photography - Yellow Footed Green Pigeon, Kabini Dec'15

Wildlife and Wildlife Photography - Crested Serpent Eagle, BR Hills Dec'15

Another addition to my Wildlife and Wildlife Photography Blog , me and my family were on vacation and we had a plan of visiting Kabini and then BR Hills. So after our stay at Kabini and spotting Leopards and Sloth Bear, we moved to BR Hills.

BRT Hills is known for birds rather than mammals, though it has Tigers, Leopards and Wild Dogs. It is mainly known for different owls. We were into our first safari, and we spotted this Crested Serpent Eagle, it was not in proper light, but managed to click few pics. For bird photographers, BR Hills is heaven.

Crested Serpent Eagle or CSE, are abundant here and in Kabini as well. It was lovely to spot it. It eas giving nice poses for us. 

Here is the pic of Crested Serpent Eagle......................

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Crested Serpent Eagle - BR Hills December 2015

Wildlife and Wildlife Photography - Crested Serpent Eagle, Kabini Dec'15

Wildlife and Wildlife Photography - Indian Gaur, Bandipur Dec15

Me and my family were on family vacation and we visited Kabini, BRT Hills. we were returning from BRT Hills on 25th Dec 2015, the manager at BRT hills said to us that we should visit Bandipur as the tiger sightings are going on. He told us to try our luck, we said we will try. We did visit Bandipur Tiger Reserve, we missed tiger by 1 min and my wait to see my first tiger still increased till this year in March 2016. To our luck, my first date with tiger which happened at Bandipur this year in March 2016.

Bandipur has got lovely wildlife, it has got abundant deer families, which is a good indicator of healthy food chain. It is a dry forest, gaurs, elephants and deers will be seen in abundant, along with one deadly predator Wild Dogs.

So when we visited Bandipur in December 2015, we did see this beautiful Indian Gaur. These are found almost in all the jungles of India. They weigh from 650 kg to 1000 kg. They are dangerous when they are teased. They can even fight the predators and on their day they can even kill them. One video went viral of gaurs fighting lions.

So we were into the forest and we bumped into a herd of gaurs, where one was a huge gaur and was looking straight into the camera. I did click few of them. It was very ferocious and was intensely looking at us and then suddenly it ran and we thought it was towards us, but it changed the course and ran into the waterhole nearby, maybe due to fear. But, if it was to bump us, it would have been a very deadly collision.

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Indian Gaur - Bandipur December 2015

Wildlife and Wildlife Photography - Indian Gaur, Bandipur, Dec'15

Wildlife and Wildlife Photography - Sloth Bear , Kabini Trip ,Dec 2015

It was our lucky day as we might say, we were waiting at the Tiger Tank - name of the place in the A zone of the forest of Nagerhole National Park or Kabini. We were waiting for Tiger to come out of the small opening and to our surprise, A Sloth Bear came out and it is shyest animal of all the animals. It is very rare to be spotted, rarest then the Tiger. Many photographers want to spot it, but very difficult to spot.

It came out to have water, while we waited for it to show its face, it was looking as if the bear was angry from us. Then, at one second it showed its face and it was lovely and most cutest animal ever seen (Panda is yet to be seen).

It was black and furry and a patch of white in its face in round shape. Its eyes were shining and within a fraction of second it went away. It was a small meeting, but will remember till the end of my life.

Sloth Bear are very shy animals, they normally do not like to be disturbed and are very lazy as well. Their photography is very difficult to take, but sometimes miracles too happen,

Here is the picture of Sloth Bear - Wildlife and Wildlife Photography Blog ...........

Wildlife and Wildlife Photography - Sloth Bear, Kabini, Dec'15

Sloth Bear, Kabini Dec'15 - jungle_tales - Nimit Bhatt

Sloth Bear - Kabini December 2015

Wildlife and Wildlife Photography - Leopard, Kabini, Dec 15

This was a trip with the family in December 2015, we decided to go to Kabini and BRT Hills in Karnataka as I work in Bangalore, this was nearer.

We were hungry of seeing the Tiger and Leopards and Kabini is known for Leopards.

We did see the Leopards both in morning and evening safaris. In morning it was on the tree and it was an awesome sight and believe me once you will see the picture, you will know what I'm talking about.

Leopards are mostly found on trees, lazily lying around, having food or just sitting on the tree. They say to spot it, try to spot a crocodile bark tree with a low and strong branch and then spot a hanging tail - Leopard. This leopard gave us an exclusive time for photography. It first turned around, gave poses and then it just went down, crossed the road and into the bushes. This was in the morning safari at Kabini - Zone B.

In the evening safari, we were just returning to the base, when we spotted a sub adult leopard, walking towards our jeep, we again got the chance to do exclusive photography of it. It was not bothered by the presence of our vehicle and others as well. It was lost in its wildlife world, it was playing and was still there, but we had to move, as it was getting late.

Pls see the imagesof both the Leopards - Wildlife and Wildlife Photography Blog ...................

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Leopard, Kabini Dec'15 - jungle_tales - Nimit Bhatt

Signature of Kabini - Leopard

Wildlife and Wildlife Photography - Leopard, Kabini Dec'15