Dear friends hope all is well at your
end, I am good as well. I know this time took a long to publish a story, my sincere
apology for the same, but due to some personal and professional commitments unable
to publish. But let me tell you today’s visit will compensate for a waiting
time
Somehow
got the opportunity to travel after a gap of 6 months, this is my favorite now because it offers something unique every time. Let me
begin the story in the next section and take you to the world of grassland to
understand why nature is so beautiful
The starter
As I said no trips planned and had no idea what I
am going to do in the coming few months, suddenly got a message from Vishnu regarding
Bhigwan. I was in double mind because I had done it a couple of times but I finally decided to join the group because I wanted a short break
With no plans and expectations, I got ready to travel
with another five people because we all are MT buddies (Mumbai Traveler), and
trip arrangements as always done by MTs. I had a fair idea that even without a sighting
the trip will surely be memorable. This is how the unplanned trip started and was high
on rewards and low on expectations
We started on Friday evening, reached Bhigwan
around 10.30 pm, and got ready for the next day's early wake-up call. The target set
to get Wolves which is the main attraction in Bhigwan, it is very difficult to get
wolves compared to Tigers because places are rare where you get wolves so we
wanted to catch up with The Bhediays” of the world at any cost.
The expectation suddenly went high
when we started at around 5am but the session went completely blank, with no clicks
at all, and evening scope is very rare so the day went without the wolf. However, we
got some wonderful birds in the evening, which was a bit of relief for all
of us.
Now we only had the last chance on Sunday morning
because we had to go back to Mumbai. Here the problem was either birds or
wolf, if you do not get a wolf the scope of birding also go away due to the long distance
between places. Meanwhile, our expectations increased as we got a surprise from
Saurabh, who joined us on Saturday evening for a Sunday visit. Now the confidence
level went further up because of the expert joining us at the right time.
Now the last visit started with fingers
crossed, we had to search for 30 minutes initially but finally, the wolves
arrived in a style, around six were there and four were very close to us giving
all kinds of poses, playing and running around, this went on for an hour
compensating for Saturday and made our trip into a huge success. In addition to
this, we also enjoyed food, our trip will not end till the time we add food to
it, we had a lovely homemade Maharashtrian flavor like Misal, Bhakri, Shevbhaji, etc and on the way Kathi roll (suggested by Esmail Sir) and Mastani (connect
with Vishnu for recipe and details of Mastani) J. Now before we move to the DSLR section
let me give you a snapshot of Wolf so that you understand why it is so special.
The Bhediya
The Wolf in Hindi is known as Bhediya
and Varu in Gujarati
The Indian wolf is a subspecies of grey wolf
that ranges from Southwest Asia to the Indian Subcontinent
Wolves are found on the open lands of India and
they are able to survive in areas that are considered desert-like in nature,
hence it is not easy to find them in every region and forest
It is believed that only about 3,000 Indian
Wolves remain in the wild today, due to the bad reputation that these wolves
have and the poor economic area where they live, it is hard to get effective
practices in place for conservation
An Indian wolf pack will spread themselves out
when hunting Indian hares and various rodents, in contrast to coordinating when
their target is the swift blackbuck antelope
lucky list
So the list stands like this – Montagu's harrier,
Marsh harrier, Pallid harrier, Common Kestrel, Indian Roller, Bonelli's eagle, Grey
francolin, Drongo, Yellow-wattled lapwing, Hoopoes, Shrike, Chinkara, Red
avadavat
I hope you liked this blog, keep
blessing and keep motivating me to deliver unique stuff, do let me know your
feedback at btwildart@gmail.om
Vote of Thanks
Mumbai
Travellers and Team –
Many thanks to Saurabh, Jogi and Pathamesh, Mayuresh for managing the tour so
smoothly, you guys are rocking, keep it up.
Drivers/guides – Kundan
your effort in finding Wolves is highly appreciated.
Home
Stay - Sandeep Nagre (Agni Pankh Flamingo
Point), lovely food, and super arrangements for finding so many species
BT Wild Art
Wolf
Peacock
Montagu's harrier
Common Kestrel
Montagu's harrier
Shrike
Yellow-wattled lapwing
Chinkara
Indian Roller
Hoopoes
Red avadavat
