BT Wild ART - A unique Journey to the wilderness: 2025

restart with B-P-P

Hello friends, wish you a happy Friendship Day, you all are true friends who help me to reach milestones in the journey of blogging and photography. For this, I wish everyone....

Tum jaise wildlifer ka sahara hai dosto
Tum jaise wildlifer ka sahara hai doston,
Yeh dil tumhare pyar ka maara hai dosto,
Yeh dil tumhare pyar ka maara hai dosto,
100 baar Shukriya, 1000 baar Shukriya.

Now let me tell you why the title is restart and the meaning of B-P-P, restart because of restarting blogging after a long gap, and restart because restarting at the same place but with an upgraded camera.

Now let me tell you the meaning of B-P-P, this means Bhigwan-Parinche-Panvel, the place is not new for all of us, but as I said, experience and quality are different due to a new member in the kitty, my Canon R5. Hope you will enjoy the restart pictures and blog too. So let us start with the Story of BPP one by one.

Bhigwan the big one

This time, the whole trip happened without any planning. The actual plan was to visit near Chiplun, but for some reason, it could not materialize. I was excited to use the new camera, but due to the cancellation of Chiplun had no choice but to wait. But suddenly Jogi called and informed that Bhigwan is rocking and let’s go for the same, with Bhigwan we also added Parinche, which is one of the P, the difference is not far from Bhigwan, hence it makes sense to do both places together.

Let me update on how both places rocked. Firstly, update on Bhigwan. This place is God’s gift to mankind, such a beautiful place with greenery all around with offering all through the year. I have been to lots of places, but most of the places are seasonal, based on migration, but the same is not applicable to Bhigwan. All through the year, you can visit to take advantage of the different varieties.

The Monsoon magic is all about the variety of Quails, painted sandgrouse, Foxes, Wolves, hyenas, and many more. Apart from wildlife, it also offers food life, which means a typical homemade Maharashtra special meal with best of the best taste, visit BT’s world for pictures.

Parinche

This place is primarily famous for for Vernal Hanging Parrot, but you can also find Baya, Bunting, Munias as add-ons, but as I said, prime time is parrot. Let me also clarify that parrots are different from parakeets; what you see within the city is not a parrot, but is parakeet. People are not aware of parrots and use the term " Parrot" for all parakeets. So, please see the picture of a Vernal hanging parrot to understand that parrots and parakeets are different birds. This place is located near Saswad and just two hours from Bhigwan, hence it is better to combine both places to get unique birding in one go.

The parrots are visiting the Bajri season, which matches with monsoon, to capture parrots hanging on Bajri, even if it is windy with rain, which is amazing. Because of this hanging behaviour, the name is Vernal Hanging Parrot.

Panvel

Now let me update you on Panvel, though it happened after a week of Bhigwan/Parinche, but again an unplanned visit to meet the King of monsoon, OD King Fisher. Friday evening got a call from Jogi. The question was What are you doing tomorrow morning? Let’s meet early morning to join Panvel for ODFK. Within the city, plus learning about using a new camera with Jogi, it became an excellent opportunity.

The only regret of the wrong choice was that we decided to stop over at Shree Datta Snacks, the quality was not at all enjoyable.

Now, at the end, please look at the BT’s World section to see exciting pictures of the tour, do share your feedback with me on btwildart@gmail.com

Vote of Thanks

Nature Explorer Team – Many thanks, team NEI (Vrunda and Tushar), for managing the tour so smoothly. You people are rocking, keep it up.

Agni Pankh Flamingo point for a memorable time at Bhigwan, special thanks to the Nagre family for the lovely food.

Gaurav for Parinche, keep it up, do upgrade and promote the place more and more, so that more people can visit.

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