[Leica] Bandhavgarh Part 2
Jayanand Govindaraj
jayanand at gmail.com
Sun Dec 31 22:25:51 PST 2023
*Wishing all members of LUG, PSM and MNS a happy, fruitful and productive
2024.*
Bandhavgarh is arguably the most tiger focused national park in India, the
guides and drivers generally have to be told, quite firmly, to stop for
other flora and fauna as well.
So, between tigers here is a short interlude:
Gaur:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231208-037-Edit.jpg.html
Langur:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231208-1049-Enhanced-NR.jpg.html
Lesser Adjutant Stork:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231208-1131-Enhanced-NR-Edit.jpg.html
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231208-1155-Enhanced-NR-Edit.jpg.html
In the preceding mail, I had shared photographs of a female tigress called
Katiba. Not very long after we lost track of her, while we were still in
Khitauli zone, the alarm calls started ringing out again, and we saw a
handsome male tiger moving through the forest. Deducting that he was making
for a waterhole nearby, we went and took a pole position there. Sure
enough, shortly afterward, he broke cover and started loping down a slope
to the water:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231209-670-Edit.jpg.html
Once there, he looked at the water for a few seconds:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231209-686-Edit.jpg.html
Then he started drinking, and continued for a long time:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231209-836-Edit_001.jpg.html
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231209-1282-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIMEXD-Edit.jpg.html
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231209-1314-Enhanced-NR-Edit.jpg.html
As he finished, I took an environmental portrait:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231209-905-Edit.jpg.html
He then spent a few minutes cooling off in the pond:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231209-1471-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIMEXD-Edit.jpg.html
After which he left the waterbody on the far side:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231209-1613-Edit.jpg.html
Lastly, he marked a tree, and then disappeared into the thicket:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231209-1643-Edit.jpg.html
Finally here are two random offerings to close out the trip. The first one
is a fellow tourist capturing memories of Katiba:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231209-511-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIMEXD-Edit.jpg.html
Lastly, here is a seven shot panorama of a misty morning in Bandhavgarh.
These open grasslands were once villages and the cultivated lands that
surrounded them - these have been relocated outside the national park some
time ago, but not very successfully, as there is a lot of resentment still
simmering among these villagers about being robbed of their hereditary
lands:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231208-006-Enhanced-NR-EditCropped.jpg.html
Please see LARGE.
Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome.
Cheers
Jayanand
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