Birding @ Bhandup Pumping Station
Just discovered another birding spot in Mumbai. Got my first spoonbill sighting in Mumbai here. It has a vast area through which you can walk around. Saw a number of birds and butterflies here.
The Kill
Our trip to Tadoba in 2014 had not been a very eventful one. We got sightings, but in most cases the sightings were fleeting or from far off. This summer we decided to take our chances again and booked our safaris in Tadoba and Ranthambhor. The Tadoba trip turned out to be awesome with sightings of Sonam and her 3 cubs, Maya and her 3 cubs, Madhuri and Wagdoh (Scarface). When we went to Ranthambhor it was peak summer. The temperatures had reached 48 C in Ranthambhor just a week before. We took the August Kranti Rajdhani Express from Mumbai to Sawai Madhopur (12953). We could not do the morning safari. Instead we did a tour of the Ranthambhor Fort which is a UNESCO world heritage site. The evening safari was very good with a very great sighting of T64. When we started our safari on 29th, we wondering if we had already seen the best of what Ranthambhor had to offer. After around an hour an half of the safari saw this tiger dozing off in the shade near some tall grass. Ev...
