CHIPLUN- HEAVEN ON EARTH

I traveled with Mr. Subramani to chiplun for photographing the colorful bird called ORIENTAL DWARF KINGFISHER (ODKF). We started our trip from Chennai to Mumbai and traveled by car to Chiplun which took nearly 6 hours ride. 

We were accompanied by MUMBAI TRAVELERS for the trip who helped us in booking cars from Mumbai. This was actually a one night trip to chiplun and we were able to enjoy every moment.

Nandu's sanctuary so called is a wonderful place for birders to sighted colorful species. The sanctuary is named after Nandu where his efforts are uncountable for the wildlife. He has many hides for photographing ODKF. Actually he has purchased nearly 35 acres of forest and he intends to get 100 acres for wildlife conservation. The way he has setup the hide, the bird could not recognize. 

We were treated with ODKF chick while leaving the place and totally it was an awesome trip together.

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THATTEAKADU- A DREAM FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS

Thatteakadu- A Dream place for photographers who can use their wonderful skills to color up their bokeh. Thatteakadu is a place for moment of bliss in everyone's life. We planned our trip for on Feb-25 & 26 for the wonderful place along with 3 members. Thatteakadu is present near Kodhamangalam which is 40 km from Cochin.

We (Mr. Subramani Sir, Mr. Arun Duraiswamy, Mr. Shivakumar Duraiswamy & myself) arrived at Cochin and arranged a car to Kodhamngalam.

The bucket list for Thatteakdu were:
1. Black Baza
2. Malabar Trogan
3. Frogmouth.
4. ODKF (Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher)
5. Slender Loris

But we were able to sight many colorful birds apart from the list. Two days to thatteakadu were not enough but we managed two capture wonderful shots of the bird.

The total list composed of 24 bird count:
1. Black Baza
2. ODKF
3. Malabar Trogan
4. White bellied Blue Flycatcher
5. Spider Hunter
6. Tickles blue flycatcher
7. Rusty Tailed Flycatcher
8. White bellied Treepie
9. Yellow Burrowed Bulbul
10. Flame throat-ed Bulbul
11. Indian Paradise Flycatcher
12. Malabar Grey Hornbill
13. Shrike
14. Malabar Whistling Thrush
15. Indian Pitta
16. Orange Bellied Thrush
17. Asian Fairy Bluebird
18. Cinerious Tit
19. Jerdon Leaf Bird
20. Monarch Flycatcher
21. Motted Wood Owl.
22. Puff Throat-ed Babler
23. Brown Cheek Fulvetta
24. White Cheeked Barbet

 Raptors were spotted less when compared to other birding places. But very cute birds were sighted and lead to a good trip.

Let's start with Black Baza the "rare raptor"

This one is very rare and is a migrant bird present in Himalayas and migrates during the winter time in South India. This bird has long crest and total black around it's back. Actually only 7 of them were present around but it was difficult to spot.

Thanks to one of our friend Mr. Arun who captured the wonderful image of Black Baza trekking through the dense forests. We three of them were left behind with no trace of the guide. The guide named Vimal was expert in sighting birds in Thatteakadu helped us in sighting this wonderful bird.

2) Monarch flycatcher:

This was taken by my friend Mr. Subramani from Chennai who accompanied with us for the wonderful trip.

3) Motted Wood Owl:

This was taken by my friend Mr. Subramani from Chennai who accompanied with us for the wonderful trip.

4) Asian Fairy Bluebird:

Specs:
f/5.6
1/200s
ISO-100

5) White cheeked Barbet

Specs:
Aperture: f/5.6
Shutter Speed: 1/200s
ISO-160

6) Blyth's Starling:

Specs:
Aperture: f/5.6
Shutter speed: 1/40s
ISO-160

7)Cinereous Tit:

Specs:
Aperture:f/8
Shutter speed: 1/15s
ISO-160

8) Flame Throat-ed Bulbul:

Specs:
Aperture: f/5.6
Shutter speed:1/200s
ISO-100

9) Brown Cheeked Fulvetta:

Specs:
Aperture: f/6.3
Shutter speed: 1/15s
ISO- 160

10) Malabar Grey Horn bill:

Specs:
Aperture:f/5.6
Shutter Speed: 1/500s
ISO-200

11) Indian Pitta:

Specs:
Aperture: f/8
Shutter Speed: 1/10s
ISO-160

12) Jerdon Leaf Bird:

Specs:
Aperture: f/8
Shutter Speed: 1/40s
ISO: 160

13) Malabar trogan

Specs:
Aperture: f/5.6
Shutter speed: 1/500s
ISO-2000

14) Malabar Whistling Thrush:

Specs:
Aperture: f/5.6
Shutter Speed:1/25s
ISO-160

The other view:

15) Orange Bellied Thrush:

Specs:
Aperture: f/7.1
Shutter Speed: 1/50s
ISO-160

16) Indian Paradise Flycatcher:

Specs:
Aperture: f/6.3
Shutter Speed:1/25s
ISO:160

17) Puff Throated Babbler:

Specs:
Aperture: f/6.3
Shutter speed: 1/15s
ISO: 160

18) Rusty Tailed Flycatcher:

Specs:
Aperture: f/8
Shutter speed: 1/15s
ISO-160

19) Brown Shrike:

Specs:
Aperture:f/7.1
Shutter speed:1/200s
ISO: 400

20) Spider Hunter:

Specs:
Aperture: f/8
Shutter speed: 1/40s
ISO- 160

21) White Bellied Blue Flycatcher:

Specs:
Aperture: f/7.1
Shutter speed: 1/15s
ISO: 160

21) Tickles blue Flycatcher:

Specs:
Aperture: F/6.3
Shutter speed: 1/25s
ISO: 160

22) White bellied treepie:

Specs:
Aperture: f/5.6
Shutter speed: 1/200s
ISO: 100

23) Yellow Wagtail:

Specs:
Aperture: f/5.6
Shutter speed: 1/80s
ISO: 160

24) Yellow Burrowed Bulbul:

Specs:
Aperture: F/8
Shutter speed: 1/20s
ISO: 160

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CORBETT THE LAND OF ELEPHANTS AND TIGER

Cobett know to be the mystical lands in India depicting the the nature in an unpredictable way and famous for "Mighty Jumbos" which helps in photographing their wonderful behavior and need not forget about the tigers where different ones dominate different parts of the land.

We "The Naturographers" joined along with NATURE WANDERERS who were very experienced in photography. It was actually a 4N & 3D tour which was conducted on Jan-26 2018.

This was actually the most expected tour of the year and it happened to be a better one. There are nearly 20 zones out of which DHIKALA & BIJRANI are the famous ones for tiger sighting.

Here the image shown is the forest map and total area of Corbett Tiger Reserve. The total area of reserve is 1288 sq.km. The first safari inside Dhikala was amazing one as the tiger name Chuapani just crossed the road with its two cubs a total of three but couldnt capture the image as it went deep inside. Then we started to search the tigers on the first day itself and along with that we were able to spot some raptors.


1) Changeable Hawk Eagle
    Specs: f/8
    Shutter: 1/500s
    ISO:200

2) Lesser Fish Eagle
    Specs: f/8
    Shutter:1/500s
    ISO-250

These two gave us the best sighting ever and we managed to take good photos of the raptors.
The next safari did not provide us anything as the nature acted so cruel and it was highly mist and fog. Out of 8 safaris 5 safaris were almost misty and foggy. But after patience we got wonderful phtos of the Mighty Jumbos.

3) Elephant Herd
    Specs: f/9
    Shutter:1/500s
    ISO:200

4) The Joyful Elephants:
   Specs: f/9
   Shutter:1/500s
   ISO:200

5) Elephant Herd
    Specs: f/9
    Shutter:1/500s
    ISO:200

6) Lonely Elephant in scape
    Specs: f/9
    Shutter:1/500s
    ISO:200

I can describe the above photo in a technical manner as the photo has been taken in grid form. We can see both the rule of thirds and the area separated into three parts.

7) The Joyful Buddies
    Specs: f/5.6
    Shutter: 1/1000s
    ISO-125

The elephants gave us a wonderful sighting ever we had and almost proved that they are the Mighty Jumbos of Corbett. All were very indeed celebrating their sighting.

We were also gifted with the smallest ever known raptor called "COLLARD FALCONET". It gave us the best sighting and rarest lifer for us.

5) Collard Falconet
    specs:f/5.6
    shutter:1/1000s
    ISO: 2000

Then we got many wonderful sightings of Crested Kingfisher which seemed to capturing the show in place of tigers.

8) Crested Kingfisher
    Specs: f/5.6
    Shutter: 1/1250s
    ISO:640

We were totally disappointed without any tiger sighting and at all the last safari we got to see "THE LEGENDARY PARWALI" of Dhikala Corbett.

She occupied the 5 mins show with our 100 fans of her standing with cameras to take her wonderful pose.
9) The Legendary Parwali
Specs:f/9
Shutter:1/500s
ISO:200

We concluded our trip after the tiger sighting and thought of reaching home early with wonderful experience but we were even rewarded with Otters the joyful water swimmers.

10) OTTERS
      Specs:f/7.1
      Shutter: 1/500s
      ISO-160

Thus concluded our trip with:

BIRDS:
1) Lesser Fish Eagle
2) Pallas Fish eagle:
3) Changeable Hawk Eagle
4) Himalayan Bulbul
5) Collard Falconet
6) Pied Buschat
7) Crested Kingfisher
8) Pied Kingfisher

Mammals:
1) Elephants
2) Tiger
3) Jackal
4) Barking Deer
5) Indian Otters


BY:                                                                             
K.SWARUP & K.KARTHICK
NATUROGRAPHERS
CHENNAI

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