Dear readers thank you so much for
showering your love towards the Bhigwan trip report. Your overwhelming response and
appreciation of pictures are truly helping me to improve the quality.
Now
it is time to fulfill the promise of providing a magical part with this blog,
without taking more time let me disclose the magic. Part 2 of the trip is a visit to Parinche for meeting one of the magical birds, so let me enlighten you with
this unknown place step by step in the next section.
Let the story begins
To begin with, let me tell you how
this place came into the picture and after that I will introduce you to the specialty
of this place.
So let me start, while we were planning for Bhigwan, Deepa updated me about this
place and showed me some wonderful pictures of other friends, the details were
so attractive that we all 3 decided to visit this place but now the question
was whether to plan a special trip or to tag this with Bhigwan.
A couple of times Bhigwan got postponed adding to the question mark on this place as well, but with the blessing of all, we finalized the
date of the trip and added this place as well. Now let me tell you why this dependency?
The reason is the distance between both these places is around 100KM and hence to
avoid multiple visits it is wise to club both together. This is how we planned
that we will complete both places in one go. I know you have never heard about
this place and you are eager to know so let me talk about this place as well.
Parinche is a village in Purandar
Taluka in Pune, the small place suddenly came into the limelight because someone
loves Bajari (Pearl Millet Fields) which is easily available at this place, and
hence now it has become famous. Now the question is who “Someone” is. Any minister,
any celebrity, or any sports person…… the answer is “None of the above”.
I know you are eager to know about “Someone” who
is not amongst big shots but still made this small place a big one. Patience my
friends, remember the fruits of patience are sweet right 😝, so let me not test your patience and disclose
this mystery in the next section.
Let the magic play
Before I disclose the details, I want you
to sing this song along with me, Aashiq hoon main, Kaatil Shatir bhi
hoon, Sabke Dillon mein Shaamil bhi hoon, Badshah main Badshah………….yes the
Badshah is none other than “Vernal Hanging Parrot” such a beautiful creature, its charm has made the place famous.
They are unique amongst birds for
their ability to sleep upside down, thus, their common name, hanging parrots; the
bird is also known as Indian Hanging-Parrot, Indian Lorikeet
The overall plumage of the vernal hanging parrot
is green. The underparts are yellowish-green. The male has a pale blue patch on
the throat. In females, the throat patch is green. The rump and upper tail
coverts are red in male
The tail of this parrot species is
short. The bill is red in the male. In females and immature birds, the plumage
and bill are duller
The diet of these vernal hanging parrot species
is mostly Bajri or soft fruits. Wild fruits, berries, nectar, seeds, buds, and
flowers are their primary food. They have been observed to frequent fig trees
for figs and plantain tree flowers for nectar
The unknown fact is that most of the
time parakeets are mistaken as Parrots, let me tell you that Vernal Hanging is
the only parrot available in India rest of the others are parakeets
Now after knowing the facts let me close the
blog by updating you on a little snapshot of how we spent time with vernal and
then you can visit the DSLR section to feel it as a virtual visit
Date with Vernal
Now at the end let me update you on the details of
our date with Vernal. The important thing is time when you plan either with
your BF/GF or with birds 😜 you
need to ensure that you reach on time to get best out of it, we were told by
Gaurav to visit around 6 am or around 3 pm to enjoy the time with this lovely
bird
At Bhigwan we had concluded the activity around
10 am and hence we could manage to leave by 11 from there. It took two hrs so
we reached around 1pm. We started evaluating the nearby area where we got
Bunting, Red Adavat, Baya, etc but our eyes were searching the Vernal
Gaurav increased our hope when he said that some
time bird comes at around 1.30 pm, now it was 2+ but no glimpse, to irritate us
rain started coming little hard, now you can’t use camera unless you have rain covers. Somehow,
with hope and pm prayer, we were passing the time sitting in a hide or in a car
After a long wait suddenly at around 2.45 pm the vernal
arrived and arrived in style, at a time there were more than 8, they were
enjoying Bajri and we were enjoying their activity. This was the first time I saw
vernal and was mesmerized by the beauty of this bird. It was like bumper luck for us, the success
of Bhigwan added with the superb sighting of vernal what more you can demand. After
such a lovely date we started our return journey which was finally ended by
having wonderful lunch near Saswad.
I hope you liked magical vernal, keep
blessing and keep motivating me to deliver unique stuff, do let me know your
feedback on btwildart@gmail.om
Learning of the day
State
Bird of Mizoram
Mrs. Hume's pheasant –
The
name commemorates Mary Ann Grindall Hume, wife of the British naturalist in
India Allan Octavian Hume. It is the state bird of Mizoram and Manipur
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