I went to Bandhavgarh national park in Madhya Pradesh India with my wife in the 3rd week of march 2023 to see the famous tigers which has been in my bucket list for some time. Although I planned this in 2020 originally got postponed due to Covid and though I wanted to go in the hot summer month of April and asked for 6 safaris, as it got dragged for so long , the tour agent gave a deadline of 31st march and only 4 safaris were allocated . There were many lessons to be learnt form the wildlife parks in India in general and I sincerely hope the authorities should take a cue from these rules and regulations set mainly to save the wildlife in the long run unlike in our parks.
Only a handful of jeeps registered are allowed to go each time and no private vehicles are allowed . A guide is a must and the noticeable thing is that whatever the emergency , the speed is between 10-20 km/ hour.
we were very lucky to see 3 Tiger cubs of 10-12 months old on our 2 nd safari and did not see any other thereafter though I got to see many new bird species as well.
Terrain of the forest
sunrise
Brown fish owl
Ancient ruins of a stable inside the forest
A sanstone carving of God Vishnu from one single stone inside the park
Tawny bellied warbler
Indian Bison
This was late evening and though intimidating ,it was only a big yawn.
This was the shot of the tour.
Common woods shrike
Olive backed pipit
This is the property of the resort we stayed in Kuchiwahi village.
Red jungle fowl
Brahmin starlings
Quite a common bird the jungle owlet
Plum headed parakeet
female black red start
male
Sambar deer
Most common stork in the area the lesser adjutant staork
Jerdon's leafbird
Tickell's blue flycatcher
Indian scops owl
Red napped ibis
Barking deer
Bonelli's eagle
Rufous treepie
Racket tailed drongo
Rare blue bearded bee eater
This is a very sustainable operation using the domestic elephants to patrol the forest to check for illegal activities, injured animals and to get back stray animals gone to the adjoining villages as the forest and the village is divided only by a fence and the humans more or less coexist.
Indian vulture
Very common Indian roller
A black drongo hitching a ride
Yellow throated sparrow
wire tailed swallow
migrant Red throated flycatcher
Famous DHUVAN DHAR falls in Jabalpur
The marble rocks
Grey hornbill nesting
Black rumped flameback
Indian white-eye
