Making More Memories: Road Trip to the Jungle

 

 

It's been four years since we experienced the peace of the jungle.

Kabini is world-renowned as one of Asia's premier wildlife destinations    

And this is the legendary Kabini River Lodge, located on the backwaters of the Kabini River in Karnataka, India 

 

 

 

 On this trip we saw many elephants, probably 30 of them at various locations 

And hundreds of Chital (Axis axis) also known as Spotted Deer 

                 

 This is a magnificent adult male Chital (Axis axis), also known as a spotted deer or axis deer. 

 

                                                      

                                  

                    These are Asian elephants (Elephas maximus), the largest living land mammals on the Asian continent.

    These Chital were making alarm calls, probably because there was a tiger or leopard nearby

 

This is a Crested Serpent Eagle (Spilornis cheela)

This raptor specializes in hunting snakes and other reptiles, including lizards and frogs 

 

        

These are Dholes (Cuon alpinus), also famously known as Asiatic wild dogs, Indian wild dogs, or whistling dogs.

They are probably resting after hunting the previous night! 

               

 This is a male Grey junglefowl (Gallus sonneratii), 

a wild ancestor of the domestic chicken native to peninsular India

 

         These are Indian black turtles (Melanochelys trijuga), 

also widely known as Indian pond terrapins

    An Indian boar (Sus scrofa cristatus), a distinct subspecies of the wild boar native to India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar.

          🦚  We saw so many peacocks, close to a hundred over the past few days 🦚

They are so common here, the locals don't even give them a second look   :-)

 

   In this courtship display, both peacocks are actively fanning out their massive upper tail coverts (trains) into large, semi-circular fans to attract females (peahens).   

Peahens carefully observe multiple males, choosing the peacock with the longest, most symmetrical, and vibrant train, which indicates strong genes 🦚

                                                                                        

 

 

 

                                   Saw a barking deer, along with peacock and jungle fowl!

This is an Indian roller (Coracias benghalensis), a strikingly colorful bird belonging to the roller family, Coraciidae

    This is an Oriental magpie-robin (Copsychus saularis), a small passerine bird belonging to the Old World flycatcher family.

           

 This is a Red-headed vulture (Sarcogyps calvus), also famously known as the Asian king vulture or Pondicherry vulture.

 It is standing on a shoreline of the Kabini river eating a large carcass.

                    And minutes later is joined by two Black-headed ibises (Threskiornis melanocephalus)

 

 This is a Red-naped ibis (Pseudibis papillosa), 

also known as the Indian black ibis or simply the black ibis. 

It is a large waterbird native to the Indian subcontinent.

        

Sambar deer (Rusa unicolor), a large species of deer native to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.

                                  The White-throated kingfisher (Halcyon smyrnensis)

 

Didn't come across any big cats on this safari. 

Saw many tigers and leopards on the previous trip!

Check out the last trip here

 

Making a new leather belt

 Decided to make a new leather belt

(As if I don't have enough belts already) 

 

I've made many leather belts for others

And I don't sell them :-) 

Here are a few 

    

If you want one, just ask me :-)