[Leica] Nagarhole National Park

[len-1 at comcast.net (Leonard Taupier)]

Jayanand,

A fantastic collection of animal and bird photos. The elephants are  
magnificent. The langur are a striking species as well. But what  
really impressed me were your wonderfully sharp bird photos.  
Certainly birds I have never seen. I noticed one shot was at 400mm  
and 1/40 sec. Impressive.

I'm sure you had quite a good time.
Very well done.
Len


On Apr 7, 2007, at 12:22 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:

> I spent a weekend in end March at Nagarhole National Park in  
> Karnataka,
> India. This park is one of the jewels of India's conservation  
> effort, and
> has one of the highest densities of predators - tigers, leopards,  
> wild dog
> and sloth bears in the country, as well as their prey species of  
> deer, wild
> boar etc. The predators are very difficult to sight because of thick,
> tropical forests. It is, however, prime viewing habitat for wild  
> elephants
> and gaur (the largest bovines in the world), of which there is no  
> dearth in
> the park - it supports an estimated 2000 elephants and 3000 gaur.  
> This time
> around, I photographed mainly elephant, and surprisingly the langur, a
> monkey, as well as a few deer and birds. As you can see, it is a well
> managed park, with quite a few handsome tuskers - these are the  
> poacher's
> primary target for the ivory - so the preponderance of tuskers  
> suggests a
> well policed area.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand_001/Nagrhole/
>
> Criticism, comments etc, as usual are welcome.
>
> Cheers
>
> Jayanand
>
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