Hello everyone, I hope this vacation you are planning for a trip to nature trail if not, you should plan a small trip to explore the beauty of Mother Nature, to help you to select the place today’s trip report certainly will motivate you to finalize the nature trip.

Today’s topic is a trip report of my recent visit to one of the best place rather I would say heaven on Earth. The place is close to my heart because of the kind of beauty and peace of mind it offers. In my word Jim Corbett is nothing less than heaven, one gets mesmerized easily and falls in love with it hence it is my favorite place, I wish I could spend my retirement life there. I know you are eager to know the report, so let me tell you that report will be shared in two parts, in today’s part I will take you to the journey of mesmerizing land and beautiful birds of Corbett (details of part 2 are a surprise, so keep waiting 😊)

The Dream place

To begin with, let me tell you about natural beauty and the sequence of events we explored in this mesmerizing land. After our Delhi visit (last blog) we moved ahead to Corbett, we 11 wild lifers stated the journey in the early morning to enter Dhikala. The gears were ready to accept whatever we get in our way. Apart from the tiger, the target also included lovely landscapes, sunset, and the forest canopy, beautiful birds in its habitat and wild animals.

In my words, Corbett is a land of a dream because of the kind of landscapes, flora-fauna, forest canopies, grassland, the passing of Ram Ganga River, pebble stones each small piece of forest is like mesmerizing you with its quality. Magical colors of leaves, dense moist deciduous forest mainly consists of sal, haldu, peepal, Rohini and mango trees are the jewels of this forest. See the richness of this place it covers almost 73% of the park, 10% of the area consists of grasslands. It houses around 110 tree species, 50 species of mammals, 580 bird species and 25 reptile species.

In addition to the above when jewels crystallize with sunrise or sunset, the scene becomes just outstanding which will hypnotize you and attracts you to nature. For photographers, these are the best opportunity to create the world’s best frames. On Corbett, I can keep talking like this for hours and hours so let me stop here and move to the next section for beautiful birds else it will be an injustice to such lovely birds. During the journey we were lucky to sight around 80 birds to cut short the list will introduce some rare and special movements so as you can enjoy the uniqueness.

Red-breasted Parakeet

Slowly but steadily we started getting the gift of nature, Dhikala welcome us with monkey’s call at the entrance itself, this generated the excitement and gave the hint that forest will keep us busy. Immediately after calling, we saw the activity of Red-breasted Parakeet they were playing and picking small fruits and drinking water, though this was a very small activity it was full of fun to observe them.

Long-tailed broadbill – Helmet bird

A Himalayan bird, this bird visit Jim Corbett during the summer season to enjoys the balanced whether in Corbett, this is litter bird but colorful and so cute as well, it is also known as helmet bird as a black color pattern on the head gives an impression of a bird wearing helmet all the time.

Collared Falconet

This was amongst the very special sighting as it is not common to sight this bird so easily, it is found in the Himalayan region, and this is special as well because it is the smallest bird of prey. Normally you can see birds are large such as Eagles, Buzzards, Osprey, Owls, Vultures and many more. Compared to these large or say huge birds the size is amongst the smallest. Apart from the size the color of Falconet is also attractive, we saw a couple of them enjoying a feast on its prey.

Specialty continues

Every day we were getting one or the other spatiality on our way, during these three days Dhikala offered us framing opportunity with four types of Kingfishers (crested, White-throated pied and common), 4 types of eagles including Pallas fish eagle, changeable hawk eagle, Serpent Eagle, and lesser fish eagle. Further, we were lucky to see a wedge-tailed green pigeon, Scarlet Minivet, Plum-headed parakeets, woodpeckers (Slaty, lesser flam back, Grey-headed). The list includes Hoopoe, dancing peafowl, Long tail shrike, Himalayan Bulbul, Sunbird and many many more. Combination of scenic beautiful birds was unmatched plus staying right inside the forest was an outstanding experience, do let me know in case you need any help in planning the visit to Corbett, you can reach me at btwildart@gmail.com

Do experience the forest at your doorstep with a trip report and some lovely pictures.

Vote of Thanks: The blog cannot end without a vote of thanks, the contribution of each one is crucial, without which the journey is incomplete

Experts: Saurabh and Team Mumbai Travlers

As always, Lovely Co-Travelers

Safari expert - Gypsy Drivers Ansar and Mashroor

Stay and Food – Dhikala Forest management

A Message of the Day -

No life without Wildlife – Preserve it – Respect it – Enjoy it

Wildlife is Mother Nature’s greatest treasure; to protect it we must take every measure