Pride of Parinche

 

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.

In the love of Bajri this bird visit this place from July to October, the behavior, the style, the pattern, etc makes this bird truly charming and hence bird lovers/photographers are travelling any distance just to feel the beauty of it. Let me update you more one by one, I am sure once you go through the details you will agree that this is a magical bird.

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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