Rakmoddin's Travel Blog: Bird

Thol Lake Bird Sanctuary - A birding paradise

Thol lake Bird Sanctuary is a shallow freshwater body surrounded by marshes on the edge and scrubby forest embarking the sides. In 1988, officially this Lake was renamed to Thol Bird Sanctuary. Thol name comes from the local village “Thol” situated near the lake. A visual treat to the birdwatchers this place is a home to more than 100 species of birds like cranes, geese, flamingos, pelicans, egret, herons, ducks, whistling teals and many other migratory birds. A visit to this place is highly recommended if you are travelling through the area.

Thol Lake Bird Sanctuary

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Himalayan Wildlife Zoo in Kufri, Himachal Pradesh

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On our trip to North India, we visited to Himalayan Wild Life Zoo in Kufri also known as Himalayan Nature Park or Kufri Zoo. It is situated around 18Km from Shimla (on Shimla-Kufri-Chail road) and spread over 90 Hectares which forms a natural habitat for many wild animals of the Western Himalaya.

Himalayan Wildlife Zoo in Kufri, Himachal Pradesh India

Leopard- Main attraction of Kufri Zoo

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Tuesday Photo:Duckling

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Watching ducks in the lake are always charming and especially when lots of duckling are all around you, then definitely it’s a happiest moments.

For this Tuesday, a photo of the duckling from Pawana Lake (Dam).

This lake is surrounded by four major forts Tung, Tikona, Lohagad and Visapur of Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and best place nearby pune, it is around 60 KM from Pune and easily reachable on bike and car.

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Mayureshwar Wildlife Sanctuary

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Mayureshwar Wildlife Sanctuary (मयुरेश्वर अभयारण्य) is a very small Wildlife Sanctuary near Pune in Supe village of Baramati district. This small region is a microhabitat for Chinkara – चिंकारा (Indian Gazelle) .

Mayureshwar Wildlife Sanctuary near Pune

Chinkara (Indian Gazelle)

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Bird watching trip to Sinhagad valley

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Sinhagad bird valley is one of the amazing place for birding. It is the must visit place for every bird watcher and it is only 25Km away from Pune.

Oriental Magpie Robin

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Purple Sunbird

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The Purple Sunbird (Cinnyris asiaticus) is a small Sunbird which are widely distributed from West Asia through Indian Subcontinent into Southeast Asia.

Purple Sunbird in Malavali village, Lonavala

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Black Drongo Bird

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The Black Drongo (Dicrurus macrocercus) is a small Asian passerine bird of the Drongo family.

Black Drongo bird

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Birding at Veer Dam and Backwater area

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Veer dam is one of the famous backwater place for bird watching near Pune, which is situated after few kms ahead from Shirwal on Pune-Bangalore National Highway. It is famous for migratory bird like Bar Headed Goose, Grey heron and Brahmin Duck.

Grey Heron with Spoonbill in Veer Dam

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Katraj Rajiv Gandhi Zoo and Snake Park

Artificial Garden

Rajiv Gandhi Zoological Park is one of the most attractive park in Katraj near Pune city, which has a wide variety of reptiles, mammals and few birds.

The snake park has a large collection of snakes, reptiles, birds and turtles. It also has a white tiger which is one of the most attractive part of the zoo.

White Tiger at Katraj Zoo, Pune.

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Bird watching at Kavadi-pat Pune

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Kavadi is a small village at about 20 Km from Pune which is full of water birds.

In the winter season you will get so many type of birds in Kavadi-Pat. Its easy to reach there if you have your own vehicle and good time to visit this place early in the morning from 7 am to 11 am.

Bird watching place is easily trace because lot of photographers and bird watchers are already there in early morning.

My visit was on 20th December 2013 with my Sony cyber shot H-100.

Kavadi pat bridge

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Migratory bird watching at Bhigwan - Simply amazing experience

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Bhigwan is the small village located on the border of Pune and Solapur district on National Highway 9 in Maharashtra, India. Bhigwan is located on the backwaters of Ujni dam in Yashwant Sagar reservoir which is best place to watch the migratory bird near Pune.

The distance between Pune city to Bhigwan is 105 Km and one can travel by various means as State Transport Bus going towards Solapur in 3.5 hour, by passenger train heading towards Solapur but both the means are not convenient so my suggestion will be the personal transport as bike, car or cab.

So on 17th December 2013 me and my friend decided to go for bird watching at Bhigwan (Kumbhargaon) and started at 6 am in the morning an managed to reach at 7.30 am, which was the amazing experience of driving the bike in the freeze weather of 8-9 degree Celsius on the amazing road I have ever seen before which made our day.
Road map from Pune to Bhigwan (Kumbhargaon)
There are two place at Bhigwan for bird watching as Diksal and Kumbhargaon which is in the perimeter of 10 km.

1. Diksal: After reaching Bhigwan town on Solapur highway there is a left turn which will take you towards Diksal. Diksal is a small village on the distance of 4 km from Bhigwan. There is a bridge on the road where many bird resides nearby.

2. Kumbhargaon: After reaching Bhigwan town on Solapur highway travel more 2 km straight and you will find a sign board which point left for "Kumbhargaon" village. It is also known as "flamingo point".

Plan to reach Bhigwan around or before 7.30 am as it the best time to see many birds.

Now will request photo to explain our feelings.

Painted Storks everywhere-Simply incredible.

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Katraj Lake - a unfamiliar Lake for bird watching

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After searching a place for photography I picked up "Rajiv Gandhi Katraj Zoo" but unfortunately the zoo is closed on Wednesday, so after searching on Google map I found a small lake next to Katraj Zoo which is also called as Katraj Lake (Katraj Talav or Peshwa's Katraj Lake) and was surprised to see the Lake in beautiful and innovative look which is developed and decorated by Pune Municipal Corporation.
Now a day this lake is the prime attraction at Katraj which is 10 km away from Pune city.

Road map from Pune camp to Katraj Lake