Kabini Wild walk/birding (Morning session of Day1)

Shutterbugs in my office been planning for some trip lately where we can use the shutter in fruitful way. Decided we will head to shimmoga to visit sakkare bailu and the other bird sanctuary. Plan to shimmoga got called off for some reason, and i do not regret for that. We decided go hit kabini, thanks to Arun who already visited that place just 2 weeks before. We made sure that we reach kabini early morning, any of among had hardly slept previous day night.

Keeping our eyes open was just hard, with drowsy state, we reached sarai (a coffee day group resort). Sarai is definitely a resort with classy ambiance & amenities  and is best place for early morning photography. All drowsily disappeared just looking at many birds flying by sides in trees, bushes. continued capturing birds for couple of hours, we realized we were hungry, headed to dining, Sarai serves buffet break fast and is just out of world though is little costly. You never see to cost when it comes to hunger ;)

I had rented a 400mm 5.6 prime lens. Till now i was happy with the shots by this lens as i was able to reach the tiny birds with sharpness. Below are some photographs caught at Sarai premises.

White Browed Bulbul.

Spotted Dove (Streptopelia chinensis)

Yellow wagtail Female catching dragon fly.
 
Spot billed ducks. I felt they are very shy.

White Ibis also called as Black Headed Ibis.

Balck Headed Ibis in flight.

Little Egret in flight.

Red Whiskered Bulbul.

Purple rumped Sun Bird Male.

 Male House Sparrow.

Female House Sparrow.

Another shot of red wishkered bulbul.

Yellow wagtail Male. (Male and Female resemble each other very much).

Here we end with Sarai. After having break fast we headed to waterwoods. Water woods is a place on banks of kabini river, mostly is used for domestic cattle feeding, washing clothes. Sun was right above our head, we could sight many birds here as well, some of below which i could catch them. 

Black Headed Gull.

Indian River tern. More shots of river tern with different angles and in flight.

Green Bee eater.

We were done with water woods. at the same time badly needed a place to stretch ourselves.  We headed to Bison resort. I end this writeup with first half of day. Lets continue the real wild walk (Safari) with next part ;)

Day out to Muthathi

Quite weird name to hear, isn't it? But the place isn't really weird !!
Is an ancient forest which has connection with Ramayana. When Sita Devi was taking bath at this place, her nose studd falls into the kaveri river. Lord Hanuman finds the studd and returns to Sita maatha. Hanuman gets the name Muthetharaya as a consequence and there is a small temple for Anjaneya at this place. And i  wonder how name of this place is might have derived.

First pit stop, between Sathanur and Muthathi. 

Believe me it was no mans land ;)

Marh 19th is the day that I with some of friends visited this place. Beginning with some geographic point of view of this place, is pretty close to Bangalore. Muthathi is a village on banks of kabini river, a nice calm, windy cool place. It is 90 km's drive from outskirts of Bangalore, drive to Kanakapura road, till you cross Banashankari, till end of METRO stores drive is miserable as due to Metro rail work in progress. From then the drive would be pretty decent. Drive of 70 kms on kanakapura road will take to Sathanur. and left from there, 18 kms of drive, and we reach muthathi. Drive between sathanur and muthathi is just amazing. A thick forest offers nice jungle feeling, birds singing. Is like a no mans land. Hardly encounter of any other vehicle till reach to muthathi. But if it is core summer you will definately feel the ablaze of wind, especially for us as we drove to muthathi by bikes ;)

Once reach muthathi, head to boating place. where local villagers offer coracle ride and charge 40 per head. This ride would take you to other end of the river. Nice palce to spend some time in water swimming. and the best part, place is not too crowded.

There is no accomodation available in muthathi, other than Bheemeshwari Fishing camp run by Jungle lodges & resorts and it needs prior reservation at least on weekends. And also kaveri running here has saveral whirlpools, and heard many have lost their lives here. Check this link as precautionary.   

Muthathi is great bird watching place, but we could not sight many many. we sighted wagtail, black kites & many of monkeys. By the time we reached the place was pretty late in noon, possible reason that we could not sight many birds.

Well it was the same day, much hyped super moon. how can i forget shooting moon. Below is my supermoon shot.

Time Out at CCD

My First Blog. What shall i start with? wildlife? birds? some of road trips? Was not sure. Today i was uploading usual office day out pics to facebook. So thought lets start a simple & sweet write up with these pics.

To introduce my team,

Neo (Naveen)

Soo(Soorya)

Nawab(Mirza)

(Babu Moshai)Arindam

and finally it is me, Bhuvan. Please no nick name :P

Though Monday blues, blues on the day were not dark intense as routine usual monday Video conference was cancelled, though we were missing counter part talks and moments. no more annotates on the counter part :P

The Day started in usual manner. Neo(Naveen) & Mirza some how observed that I was on call for some time from morning. This leg pulling reason was cause to communicator chat conference among, consequence of all chat conversation is one or other buddy would be targeted and should treat others.

Well in this i was kind of target. But i some how managed topple the topic and made it to share among each other. Though i had to contributory extra with some coffee day coupons :( and to mention the american muffin was delicious !! The same day morning as i had come back from belgaum i had camera with me, indeed carried the same to coffee shop. It was wonderful to catch some of nice moments and state them here.

Some more this and that shoots at CCD

yummy !! which one to pick?

first comes to mind when i see this? The price tag !!! The similar coffee outside (in so called sagar's) is available ten times cheaper ;)

And the special pic, Soo with mush :P