Tadoba Sunset

Comming out from the Moharli Gate of the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve  one fine evening after finishing your safari Your forced to change your Telephoto lens after Nature decides to paint the sky with the choicest of Colours....

Garden and Backyard Bird count : 59 and counting ....

Last year around this time after lazily procrastinating it for Ages I finally got myself to compile a Bird list of the Winged Beauties seen in my Garden and Backyard.Then I had hit a half century at the first try itself !!!!!!! Doing this exercise again after a year as some awesome sightings have recently happened. 

So here goes the list and with it some Photo Highlights:

1.Indian Pond Heron 
2.Little Egret
3.Cattle Egret
4.White Throated Kingfisher
5.White Breasted Waterhen
6.Shikra
7.Black Kite
8.Brahminy Kite
9.Spotted Owlet
10.Long Tailed Shrike
11.Common Myna
12.Bank Myna
13.Asian Pied Starling
14.Purple Rumped Sunbird
15.Purple Sunbird
16.Ashy Prinia
17.Plain Prinia
18.Orange Headed Thrush
19.Blyth’s Reed Warbler
20.Jungle Babbler
22.Little Green Bee Eater
23.Scaly Breasted Munia
24.Indian Silverbill
25.Red Vented Bulbul
26.Red Whiskered Bulbul
27.White Browed Bulbul
28.Eurasian Cuckoo
29.Common Hawk Cuckoo
30.Indian Cuckoo
31.Black Drongo
32.White Throated Fantail
33.Asian Paradise Flycatcher
34.Black naped blue Monarch
35.Tickell's Blue Flycatcher
36.Indian Golden Oriole
37.Rose Ringed Parakeet
38.Oriental Magpie Robin
39.Baya Weaver
40.House Sparrow
41.Common Tailorbird
42.Coppersmith Barbet
43.Zitting Cisticola
44.Common Iora
45.House Crow
46.Asian koel
47.Greater Coucal
48.Common Hoopoe 

49.Pale billed Flowerpecker 

50.Barn Swallow 

51.Brahminy starling 

52.Indian Roller 

53.Asian brown flycatcher

54.Banded Bay cuckoo

55.Pied Cuckoo

56.Rosy Starling 

57.Indian Cormorant

58.Green Warbler

59.Blyth's reed wrabler

Have a Birdaliciously Great Weekend.

Happy sightings...

Sinnadorai ~ A Place to Find one's Soul.....

Our Stay in the Anamalais was like no other....

Surrounded on three sides by Tea Gardens and one side by the Valley ...

The drama of nature at its best-Clouds,Sky,greenery and the sun suddenly peeping out and painting the sky in a riot of colours...

We woke up to the call of the Whistling Thrush...

Here Wilderness has a way of embracing our dwelling...

Wild Peacocks peeked curiously from our sprawling veranda...

Wild Gaurs are at home in the adjacent Tea Gardens...

The surrounding Tea estates are Elephants playground....

Time hasn't changed some things in this colonial Landscape ...

We relived the luxury of the predecessors who lived here....

Enjoyed Some delicate cuisines....

Saw and visited some Endemic winged beauties in their natural surroundings at extremely close quarters....

Witnessed the great dangers facing the Critically endangered Lion Tailed Macaque while seeing them in their habitat....

Experienced the warmth of some great hospitality...

Felt Refreshed,rejuvenated......

We definitely will be back Sinna Dorai ....

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