Morning Visitors

Pied cuckoo | Sloth bear resort | 21-09-11

Sloth Bear Resort | Hampi | 21-09-11

The day has come friends when I have to bid adieu to Jungle lodges. True…I am leaving it in the coming few weeks!! Moving to Kanha and I wish I get a chance there as well to share some beautiful images of wildlife with you all. I will still be doing bookings for JLR from there. Will send you my new contact very soon!!

But before leaving I want to make the best out of what is available to me. Sloth Bear Resort, Hampi is an awesome place itself for birding. I wish I was there until migratory birds like buntings; flamingos arrive or till the Eurasian eagle owl have chicks. I must say that all the properties of JLR have something unique in itself. When I was in K.Gudi I enjoyed photographing birds and insects in the camp, the same here too.

And today morning as usual my wakeup call was by francolins. It’s so mesmerizing to hear chirping of birds around your cottage all the time. Common Iora, francolins, jungle bush quail, grey hornbill, plain prinia, jungle prinia, sparrows, Indian robin, silver bills, red vented bulbul, eurasian collared dove, laughing dove and pied cuckoos make my day.

So I decided to have a walk around our resort this morning doing bird watching. I saw two pied cuckoos in the bush hunting. I was almost an hour with them noticing how much caterpillars they can eat all this time. To my surprise they kept on hunting and on an average they both had eaten around 20 caterpillars. With belly full they decided to come out from the bush and perched near to me. That’s when I made this picture. I was fortunate to see them mating as well.

I really suggest people who visit Sloth Bear Resort, Hampi to please give at least one morning during their stay doing bird watching in the campus. And do visit the canal road and Matanga hills. This place is a treasure for all bird lovers.

Black naped monarch Rufous Treepie Pair

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3 Responses to “Morning Visitors”

  1. nita mukherjee says:
    September 21, 2011 at 8:43 pm

    Thanks for the interesting post and lovely photo, and the news of a new beginning. Hope to see lots of photos from Kanha! All the best!

  2. Dr.Venkatesamohan says:
    October 7, 2011 at 8:44 pm

    Dear Asish

    I went through your blog recently as i was searching for K.Gudi camp information s & reviews.We a team of 8 doctors planned to stay there by next saturday Oct 15-16 1 night stay.Your photos are very clear & sharp,as i am too interested in wildlife photography i would like to know what camera model you use & what type of lens you prefer.I have canon 550D with tele lens 55mm-250mm, a macro lens & a wide angle 15mm-55mm.It is unfortunate that you may not be available during our stay period as u mentioned.Anu how we’ll keep intouch & send me your mobile no. so that i can contact you.

    Regards

  3. ashish says:
    October 9, 2011 at 6:38 pm

    Hi Dr. Venkatesh,

    Thank you so much for the compliments. I use Canon 40 D with Canon 500mm f4 IS lens, Canon 100mm Macro. The combination you have is really good and I think if you can upgrade to any prime lens it will be an extra edge to your photography.In prime lens the image quality improves a lot in terms of bokeh and sharpness, though it becomes lil heavier. Regarding sharpness of my images I would always suggest you to use a bean bag or a tripod as the shakes will be less than our normal hand grip. This has really helped me to give some very sharp images even at lower shutter speeds and ofcourse in Photoshop you can enhance it a lil more !! I wish you have a wonderful trip at K.Gudi and please do some main road drives at free time in the afternoon. You may never know what you can encounter!! And for now you can contact me at 09424215683. This number is with me for a while.

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