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Showing posts with label guide. Show all posts

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Birding with Jugal Tiwari “Banni Grassland” Kutch

Banni Grassland  Kutch

Day 3
7th March 2013.
We left early morning after a refreshing cup of chai. Jugal was to be our guide and mentor for the half-day birding in the “Banni Grasslands”. We reached the Great Plains just as the sun was making its presence felt at the horizon. Jugal was extremely knowledgeable on the birding front. His enthusiasm demonstrated his love for the environment. The local tribals hold him in high esteem due to his fluency in their language and his efforts to promote environmental cleanliness. I would absolutely recommend birders make it to Jugal’s homestay once in their lifetime to roam the great wastelands of this area. Please note this area is not accessible during the monsoon period; also the summer months would be HARSH with the blazing sun overhead. I would recommend that you drop Mr.Tewari an email requesting his advice on the feasibility of visiting this area.
Welcome to my world of photography.

Crested Lark

Eurasian Cranes

Hand me a morsel 

The never-ending Banni Grassland

Ains
Yea I'm listening

Gosh we are late where have the others gone

Welcome 

Feeling Great

Eagle

Good Morning world

Jackal

Herder 

Searching

On a kill

Wait for Me

Lonesome Me

Marsh Harriet 

Posing

In flight

Searching

Partridge 

Heading home

The Rising Sun

White-cheeked Bulbul

? Shrike


Get set GO


Hope to see you Again

To contact Mr.Jugal Tiwari click the link below

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Saturday, March 16, 2013

Rann of Kutch The Banni Grasslands Gujarat


The Banni Grasslands

6th March 2013

Our host Jugal Tiwari had arranged a local guide to take us birding in the region of Banni Grassland. He was an ok chap, knew the terrain pretty well. He was aware of the names of the species that habited the area. The drive through the Banni region was awesome, flat land stretching to hell and buggery, with sparse babul bushes to dot the parched and dusty terrain. No more rhetoric on this area see the photographs that I’m posting and hope you enjoy them as much as I had did clicking them.


Kutch through the keyhole


Eurasian Cranes Lakhs of them see here season time   

Montagu's Harrier (Circus pygargus) Female


A herder atop a rocky outcrop
Common Sight

Ibis

Farid and guide time for a little snack 

Isabelline Shrike 

A conscientious herder


Eurasian Eagle Owl

King-pin of Banni area


Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse female


The never-ending road

Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse Male


A walk in the park

Riverbed froze in time

Indian Courser in flight

Indian Courser

Barred Owl

Living in the Garden of Eden


Little Cormorant

Northern Wheatear


Desert Lark

Blue Rock thrust 

Still surviving

The Beyond

A long way to go


Typical desert scene

Panic flight



 Black Drongo

Purple Swamphen, ibis, etc 


Purple swamphen

Black-tailed Godwit 

Yellow Wagtail 

Green Bee-eater Merops orientalis orientalis 


Flamingoes

White-cheeked Bulbul

Steppe Eagle

Eurasian Eagle Owl

Mars on Earth
Red planet structure