Started the new year with a trip to Bhigwan.
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| Bhigwan area. 100 km from Pune |
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| Greater Flamingos |
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| Greater Flamingos, रोहित |
For company I had my son Arnav, Father and friends from office- Mohan and Shailesh. Mohan had also gotten along his daughter with him. We started from Pune at 5:30am and reached Bhigwan by 7:30am. We met Sandeep Nagare at his village Kumbhargaon. He is the local guide and had a nice little setup of his own for the tourists. The sky was overcast on the way and in fact we hit rains on our way to Bhigwan. Lucky that the skies were clear at Bhigwan. The boat ride took us deep inside the backwaters where the Flamingos were resting and eating. I did not know that Flamingos do not eat fish but only green algae that grows in the water! We were pretty luck to see a lot of Flamingos in all their colorful glory.
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| Brown headed Gull - कुरवा |
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| Grey Heron, राखी बगळा |
While we were photographing them new flocks arrives from nearby flying down from the sky. That was the most amazing experience to see the sky filled with Flamingo orange color. Managed to get some good photos. We also saw many other water birds like egrets, common gulls, herons, ducks. We were back to the shore by 10:30am. We settled down at the small hotel that Sandeep runs, had some hot breakfast and tea. I got a book on the local birds published by Sandeep. The good thing about the book is that he has identified the Marathi (local) names of the birds as well.
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| Green Beater, वेडा राघु |
It is interesting to know how people get into the profession they are in. Sandeep's story was similarly interesting.
All in all, a great way to start the new year 2015! Can't wait to see more of India and the rest of the world. Let's see what 2015 has in store...
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| Little Egret |
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| Grey Heron |
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