Sunday, 30 July 2017

JHALANA JAIPUR

Jhalana one of the forest ever I have known which constitutes mainly of flora and fauna with a widespread of 24 sq.kms located in the center of Jaipur. A place where leopards own their place totally like the Tigers of Ranthambore. Our trip started on the evening of 22 nd of June with WILDARK NATURE and with Sumit Bhai who took their lead for the sighting of Leopards. Vipul & Catherine who took lead had already informed us regarding the kill.

 There are actually two zones namely NEEMGHATTA & LALAKUND where we sighted the leopard in the zone 1 where it was hiding inside the bushes. And we started to search for leopards after it did't show up. Then we halted near the kill (Bluebull- Neelgai) where we were expecting for the leopards to show up. Then we saw a male & a female nearly at the time of completion of our first safari where we saw BIG FOOT moving away from us.


This guy was making a territory marking directly looking at us and he had many scars around his face and probably those scars would have been for mating with the female. Then we saw a remarkable jump of big foot to the other side through the fence which could not be captured and was not expecting for the moment.

The day 2 was impressive with the sighting of Indian Leopard aka Flora which was enjoying her kill letting us capture images for more than 10 minutes. Our gypsy was the only one capturing the photos and really without any disturbance we did enjoy the moment.


Then we started to birding after having a mini breakfast inside the forest and we also saw beautiful birds such as GOLDEN ORIOL, INDIAN PITTA and of course Indian Pitta mating, JACOBIAN CUCKOO, PIED STARLING, BRAHMINY STARLING & YELLOW FOOTED GREEN PIGEON.

Then the evening safari was wonderful as i was experiencing rain during the safari and we got the good pictures of Indian Leopard aka Prince who was reaching for the food and that sighting was nearly for half and hour.


He was so majestic in look and neither these leopards dare to run away seeing us. We captured the beautiful moments that possibly I think no one can capture in Kabini, Tadoba or Bhadra.


Then we had beautiful crossing moment of Prince to the other side where the kill was present.




The above image i really loved capturing the sprint of the leopard. Then we were able to notice the Prince enjoying the kill with the rainy mood in the clouds.


It took 7.30 p.m for us to reach the hotel and i bet u that the only place where we can see leopard together is JHALANA. We mainly could see the leopard because of the kill and thanks a ton for the NEELGAI.


K.KARTHICK
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