Khitauli zone (Gate 3)
is good for birding, sloth bear and blue-bull sighting. One can do two jungle safaris in a day i.e. Morning & Evening. Park Safari Route "I" are in Magdhi zone. Route-I have 4 sub-route options to choose. As Khitauli zone is least visited by tourists, it is less crowded and easily available for ticket-booking.
Beautiful but cold morning
Bird of pray
Red-vented Bulbul
Red-vented Bulbul
A waterhole
A Jackal is coming down the dirt track
A Jackal is coming down the dirt track
The Jackal disappears like nothing have happened
Nilgai, sometimes called nilgau, the largest Asian antelope
The ugliest Antelope together with the Gnu
Another Jackal trying to sneak up on a Spotted Deer
We come down the dirt track and there was a beautiful Spotted Deer with huge horns. He got startled and he ran away jumping 7 meters over a creek. A beautiful shot that I missed. It would have been a very beautiful picture.
We spotted a Jackal coming out from behind the tree. The Jackal had obviously tried to sneak up on the SpottedDeer to have something to eat.
If we had been 5 minutes later we might have experienced some Jackal/ Spotted Deer action. I guess the Spotted Deer is food for the Jackal to last for a few days.
That was our second Jackal for today and there had not been many minutes between the sightings. Otherwise the park was dead this morning. No monkey and hardly any deer. Usually millions of them around. And no birds, not many so where are all the wildlife today?
Baby Spotted Deer
Baby and mama Spotted Deer
Baby Spotted Deer
Soon back at the gate
Time to go back to Bandhavgarh Jungle Lodge for breakfast
Among others I have used Peter Ericsson's web page Birds of Thailand
These galleries contain 668 species of the Birds of Thailand and have been of a great help to identify some of the birds as the birds in Thailand and India are, well, many of them are the same.
I have had most help from my friend, the bird pal I met at Suan Rot Fai. Sending pictures of birds I have not been able to identify to him via Line. 3 minutes later he and he have managed to identify most of the birds I have had problems with. THANKS! Visit his web page m☥lever
for his beautiful pictures.
And my new aid, maybe, and I say maybe the best aid. I brought my mobile phone as my SIM card have stopped working and I tried to get it to work again so I can use the internet. Thus I had my phone in my pocket on my first game drive in Jim Corbett National Park.
We saw a bird and I asked my Guide and the driver if they had a pen and a paper as I had forgot my pen and paper in my room. I remembered my LG phone and I recorded the name. And thus I will always bring my phone. Writing the name in the car and I have found more than once that it can be hard to read what I had wrote when I'm back in my room.
So now I always have my mobile in my pocket and it has been a great help.
Of course, all bird pictures available on my Indianbird checklist of bird I have seen by clicking HERE