BT Wild ART - A unique Journey to the wilderness: The Thunder World Tadoba

Hello dear friends, I hope you all are doing fine. I am sure you are thinking why the blog is not published yesterday; the reason is I was traveling to one of the best places for wilderness. Yes, I was in Tadoba to find variety for all of you. During this part of the year, I plan my annual holidays and ensure that I visit forest or wetland to experience the beauty offered by our own Mother Nature, so this time I went to my favorite place or you can say my second home. As usual, forest visit is always memorable and when it comes to your second home, the experience is just fantastic therefore without taking more time, let's start with the trip report.

The trip was full of fun and offerings hence it cannot be concluded in just limited words and need to do justice to every part of the trip hence I will provide you trip report in two parts. The first part will start with beautiful birds and next will be on wild animals. Trust me birding is more difficult than the capturing wild animals, but when you get them in such lovely land the scope of making frames is endless. So get set go for more details.

The Mission Unique

I never say no to Tadoba, this is my fourth visit but completely different experience, every time it gives something unique from the box. The trip started with lovely co-travelers including best buddies Saurabh and Vishnu. The trip started with drama at my end where I was on verge of missing the train but my family friend Mayank was the savior by helping me to reach the station on time with his two-wheeler. After such efforts, I manage the timing and we all moved ahead with various discussion and expectations on sightings.

We reached the place and got immediately ready for our mission “Unique” the reason to call mission unique because unlike others we were not targeting only tigers/leopards but our aim was to find anything and everything from the fruitful place. The interaction with birds is always different because of a number of reasons such as the colorful variety of each bird, the sound they make in a silent forest atmosphere which is impossible in City life, unique behavior in their natural habitat and opportunities to captures them in a frame, it’s just incomparable. So let see what all we interacted with during the journey.

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We interacted with more than 80 birds even in a situation where we had to spend time searching wild animals. Sine list is long will update you on some unique amongst them. The journey started with Ullu 😊 though people misunderstand this lovely bird as bad luck instead it was super lucky to start the journey with Owl.

The moment we entered we encountered with Mottled Wood Owl, a little colorful owl sitting on the branch of a tree. It was too adorable, see the picture you will surely agree with me. After mottled it was a turn of Jungle owlet to play hide and seek with us, this is one rare type of owl who wanted to tease us, we missed the picture of two jungle owlets in 5 minutes but it was owlet who wanted us to make its portfolio so finally on third chance we finally got pictures. Trust me it is not easy to find Jungle owlet and that is so close and three different owlets in 15 minutes hence I said it is a lucky bird at any point in time.

Mottled Wood Owl

Jungle Owlet

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After owl, we like the most was Purple Sunbird the dark color shining bird known for roaming around lovely sunflower or similar types of flowers, we got chance to capture in its typical behavior of playing around the flowers.

Purple Sunbird

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The next in line was Shikra, unexpected sighting so close, normally raptors like Shikra are found on top of the tree looking for a hunt or in flying mode but here it was landed on the road like he is waiting for us to make a frame with its picture.

Shikra

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What next out of so many birds it is really difficult to mention each and everyone, next was hovering of Black-shouldered Kite, it was on a hunt and was continuously hovering for around 3 minutes. It is unlikely to see such hovering from kite which normally seen in flight or on wires.

Black Shouldered Kite

The list is long so let me give you the list of birds which was equally enjoyed by us during the trip, do visit Deadly DSLR to meet lovely cool cool beautiful birds. You can enjoy the trip through the blog and remember them for identification when you are on your trip.

The Lucky List

We were lucky to sight these birds as well, White-breasted and Pied Kingfisher, Comb Duck (knob-billed duck) , Black Redstart, Indian Roller, Ibis, Asian Openbill Stork, Green Bee-eater, Crested Serpent Eagle, White-eyed Buzzard, Pied myna or Asian Pied Starling, Bharadwaj, Sparrow, Yellow-footed green pigeon (State bird of Maharashtra) and many many more.