BT Wild ART - A unique Journey to the wilderness: December 2018

Thank you very much for overwhelming support throughout the year, your love, and interest motivates me to find something new every time. Today I thought a lot on what to bring to your platter, had few ideas on birds/animals but then suddenly something bug my mind that gave me an idea to get into today’s topic.

The bug is to make awareness of the value of our own city, I am sure most of us are not aware that our city is rich with such a lovely creature, so let me update you on what a value we have in our vicinity which is not explored by us at all.

Do we know your City well?

The answer is surely no, because of which many such areas were picked up for extending concrete jungle at the cost of Mother Nature. If we know our city well we can save our jewels from such unwanted exploitation. If we know our city, we can make our upcoming generation better citizens by showing them the kind of value our city offers.

This is one part; another part is we are so busy in our day-to-day life that we do not realize that we are surrounded by lovely creatures around us. Especially in the winter season, it is added with many migratory birds as well. We should connect to such places once or twice in a month, trust me early morning walk with birding adds extra oxygen. See the DSLR section to understand the kind of creatures we have well within our lovely city. Every city is rich with resources we just need little effort to explore it. let me provide you some excellent places for your knowledge so as you can plan your visit.

Excellent city wilderness

If you get a chance or I would say pull out some time to connect with wilderness, you can start with any of these lovely places within the city.

Wetland at TS Chanakya Maritime Institute Seawoods, Bhandup Pumping Station, Sanjay Gandhi National Part, Sewree, Yeoor, Uran, Powai Lake. I am sure you are shocked to know that these names are known but values are unknown.

List of wilderness

Unlimited Flamingo, Painted Stork, Marsh Harrier, Koel, Cormorant, Egret, Mongoose, Red Muniya, Kingfisher, and many more.

A Message of the Day

Save Wildlife. Save Earth

Protect our wetland to keep our city pollution level intact, the degradation of wilderness will create incurable problems in the future.

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BT Wild Art Life is Safari. Enjoy it.

DSLR Dil Se

Flamingos

Searching for Food

See the style

Walk when you talk

Dancing together

Koel

Preparation to fly

Painted Stork on mission

Mission accomplished

Very common Egret with uncommon picture

Cormorant searching Fish

Another look from Cormorant

Mongoose

Flamingo on sleep mode

Marsh Harrier

Dear readers wish you all a very happy Christmas, the time to celebrate the festival and welcome the New Year. I know I was missing on Sunday without any news but as usual, you know I will bounce back with information unique place with great pictures. Once again, the reason for missing out is my visit to one of the best place in the wilderness; such visits are like oxygen that gives the energy to survive in the concrete jungle

This time around the trip was planned as a reunion of old friends (return of Ranthambore Gang) and to welcome our beloved Amol to India for a short trip. We all wanted a place that is completely different from what we have already experienced till now, the thought was to find a place which is far away from the city and is rich with wilderness. I know our demand was really difficult but not impossible because we have an expert (our own Mowgli ST), we just demand and he delivers with a bang, he is Santa for us in a true sense. Now you know how we plan out of the box place let me open the surprise box to introduce you to the place, which is not known to many but let me tell you the place is like Kohinoor amongst the others. So please give a round of applause to “Jawai Bera.” Let us see why Jawai Bera is such a jewel

A land of Elusive Cats and A Village of Hearts

The title is just created by me to give you a snapshot of Bera, the title is best suited because At Bera people share a spiritual connection with leopards and man-animal conflict is largely absent. Mark my words you will not find such a relationship between wild and human anywhere in the World, this is the beauty of the place. This is not the only thing let me update you on facts along with our experience so as you can understand the uniqueness in a better way

It has a classic landscape with Aravalli hills dotting scrubland vegetation such as cactus and keekar, hillocks with caves provides leopard a perfect habitat hence it is also known as leopard country

The human wild relationship, Aravalli hills, hillocks with caves is an added flavor of Jawai River and Jawai Dam. What else you can ask for; such lethal combination invites migratory birds and Crocodiles to feel at home

Now let me tell you why it is a village of heart, the foremost reason is due to the kind of respect they have towards wildlife and they know the importance of wildlife in their day to day life, this is just unmatched character of Bera villagers

The nature of people wins the heart, the kind of hospitality they offer is commendable. Not at a single point, you will see arrogance in them. Words like Hukum, Ghani Khamma, and calling everyone with suffix Ji makes them the most humble people on Earth, they really won the heart with their hospitality

I hope you would love to visit a place with endless qualities, we are lucky that we are blessed with such natural place in our own Country, we should take advantage to explore such destination at least once that will help our coming generation to understand the culture and importance of nature and wildlife. Now let me update you on the list of sightings we had for capturing it in our photo world

Wilderness unlimited

In addition to main attraction Leopard we were lucky to sight Grater/lesser Flamingo, Shrike, Ring Plover, Red-vented Bulbul, Godwit, Brahminy Duck, Pelicans, Bar-headed Geese, Shikra, Eagle Owl, Black Shoulder Kite, Egyptian Vulture, Osprey, Painted Stork, White Collared Dove, Green Bee Eater, Parakeets, Magpie Robin, Francolin, Babbler, Laughing Dove, Nilgai, monkey, Mongoose and many more

While ending the blog, I would like to convey sincere thanks to each one who made this trip a memorable one

Expert Planner

Saurabh, Jogi and Team Mumbai travel for introducing to such a lovely place, you people are truly expert

Partner in wilderness and madness

NRI kahika Amol😂, Vishnu, Saurabh, Amruta and Chitra Mam

Hospitality at Varawal Leopard camp

Hukum of Varawal Camp. Pushpinder Singh Ji Ranawat and team (including family members). Thanks for the stay, food, expert knowledge sharing, everything. Keep it up

Doonger Singh Ji for such a wonderful driving experience

A message of the Day

Save Wildlife. Save Earth.

We should learn a lesson from Jawai Bera villagers, how to keep a balance between wildlife and human life to avoid conflicts. Wildlife helps you to not only save the nature but also provides an opportunity to earn your livelihoods, wildlife is harmless don’t harm the harmless.