A tale of four tigers. 2015 Part One.

We go to India to find a tiger for Chris.


Red-whiskered Bulbul
Striped Squirrel
Bluethroat
Bluethroat.
Black Drongo.
Young Nilgai being frisky.

White-throated Kingfisher.
A family of Spotted Owlets.
Looking at me looking at them.
Citrine Wagtail
Pied Starling
Rosy Starling

Purple Sunbird
Red-breasted Flycatcher.
Coppersmith Barbet.
Yellow Orange Tip.
Ashy Prinia
Posing nicely.

Painted Stork.
Great White Egret.
Purple Heron.
Dabchick or Little Grebe.
Cabbage White.
Water Snake grabbing Frog.

Black Redstart
Rufous TreePie.
Greater Spotted Eagle.
Lesser Spotted Eagle.
Ferruginous Ducks.
White-cheeked Bulbul.

Purple Swamphen.
Oriental Magpie Robin.
Indian Spotted Eagle.
Booted Eagle.
Black-crowned Night Heron.
Black-headed Ibis.

Plain Prinia.
Long-tailed Shrike.
Pied Bushchat.
Brahminy Starling.
Lemon Pansy.
Small Salman Arab. Or maybe not!

Yellow Bittern.
Indian Cormorant.
Crested Serpent Eagle.
Nilgai (Blue Bull)
Isabelline Shrike.
White-bellied Minivet.

Brown Rock Chat.
The East Gate to the Taj Mahal.
We listen to our guide.
The famous view.
Team bonding.
Intricate details.

Egyptian Vulture on Taj.
Chris listens attentively.
What they are looking at.
Alledgedly the shade of Albert Einstein.
Egyptian Vulture.
End of cultural tour.

The team await the train in Agra.
Aboard the alledged overnight "Express" to Jabalpur.
Our ticket. Not bad value.
Our bedroom at Chitvan Lodge. Kanha.
One of the Tardis like cottages.
Spotted Deer or Chital.

Barasingha. Dry ground variety.
Tigers have passed this way.
Barasingha Stag.
Tiger number one comes out of the Jungle.
Crosses the road.
Zoomed in a bit.

My version.
Tail of tiger number One.
Sambar Stag.
Commander.
Spotted Dove.
Elephant Patrol. Colonel Hathi himself.

Indian Cuckoo-Hawk.
Golden Orb Spider
Baronet.
Common Baron.
Indian Koel.
Coppersmith Barbet.

Black Storks.
Sleeping Tiger (No.2.)
A Stag approaches.
She regards him with interest.
He passes by uncaring.
She shrugs.

Plum-headed Parakeet. (female)
Oriental White-eye.
Tiger number 3 emerges on my right.
Scents his territory for news.
Returns to his patrol as we nip in front.
He regards us with equanimity.

And plods along behind us as we keep one jump ahead.
We see this is "The Kingfisher!"
So called because of the Kingfisher like mark on his eyebrow.
He does not care what his name is.
He just keeps coming along.
He does let us know he knows.

But really he is quite unconcerned.
A lovely limpid pond.
Sambar Stag checking the coast is clear.
Blyth's Pipit.
Red-naped Ibis.
Long-tailed Shrike.

Alexandrine Parakeets.
Breakfast in the Park.
Greater Coucal.
Languid Langurs.
Crimson and Rose.
Brown-backed Shrike.

Blue Jay.
Frog.
Our Tent in Pench.
Black-headed Oriole.
Our car at Pench.
Ruddy Shelducks.

Fruit Bats.
Greater Raquet-tailed Drongo.
Our tent at Pench. Outside view.
Tickell's Blue Flycatcher.
Another Baronet.
Yellow-footed Green Pigeon.

Green BeeEater.
Stork-billed Kingfisher.
Painted Storks.
Jungle Owlet.
Indian Grey Hornbill.
Indian Scops Owl.

Common Jackal.
The Himalayas from the plane to Ghowarati.
Our rustic room at Wild Grass Lodge. Kaziranga.
Another view. We loved the simplicity.
Don't know why they bother.
Bar-headed Goose.

Peregrine Falcon.
Wild elephants.
Hog Deer.
The Brahmaputra. Another famous river ticked off my list.
Indian Roller.
The queue at the gate.

Pallas's Fish Eagle
Indian One horned Rhino.
Kaziranga is one of their main strongholds in India.

Male Hog Deer.
Sunset in Kaziranga.

Riding Elephants.
Indian file?
We disturb a Rhino.
Others too.
Elephant in the mist.
E in TV interview.

Red Jungle Fowl.
Swamp Francolin.
Long-tailed Shrike. Assam morph.
Greenshank.
Lesser Adjutant.
Asian Open-bill Stork.

Stork-billed Kingfisher.
Grey-headed Fish Eagle.
Lineated Barbet.
Blue-eared Barbet.
Assam Tented Turtles and Indian Hut Turtles.
Emerald Dove.

Jungle Mynah.
Wild Grass Lodge. Our rustic home.
Red-breasted Parakeet.
Rhino chomping his way through Water Hyacinth.
Common Stonechat.
Still working his way through the Hyacinth.

Red Jungle Fowl.
Blue-throated Barbet.
Oriental Pied Hornbill.
White-fronted Geese.
Oriental Darter.
A family of Smooth coated Otters.

They go fishing.



Finally get all six in one frame.
Imperial Pigeon.

Verditer Flycatcher.
Changeable Hawk-Eagle.
Crimson Sunbird.
Well camouflaged in the flowers.
Common Snipe.
Rhino and calf.

Spot-billed Pelican at sunset.
Sundown on our last evening in Kaziranga.
Karen's Corbett Motel.
A nice friendly place.
Wallcreeper.
Crested Kingfisher.

IbisBill in the river.
Eurasian Kingfishers.
Khalij Pheasants.

Tawny Fish Owl.
Our fourth tiger. This one was not pleased to see us.

Our room at Dikhala.
Outside elevation.
Steppe Eagle.
Streak-throated Woodpecker.
Black Francolin.
Red-wattled Lapwing.

Eurasian Hoopoe.
Crested Hawk-Eagle.
Yet anther morph of the Long-tailed Shrike.
Lesser Fish Eagle.
Sambar crossing the river Kosi.
Grey Bushchat.

Green Magpie.
Green Magpie comes to drink at dusk.
Misty sunrise at Jim Corbett.
Trying my hand at landscape for a change.
A bridge too far? No! We crossed.
Greenshank.

Corbett sunrise.
Morning mists.
Changeable Hawk Eagle.
Black-shouldered Kite.
Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker.
The same.

Hodgson's Bushchat.
Rhesus Macaques were a nuisance.
Dawn Patrol.
Collared Falconet.
Grey-headed Woodpecker.
Yet another morph of the ubiquitous Long-tailed Shrike.

Common Woodshrike.
River Lapwing.
White-capped Redstart.
Plumbeous Water Redstart.
Slaty-headed Parakeet.
Long-tailed Minivet.

Eurasian Sparrowhawk.
Afternoon sun on the Kosi.
Gharials and Peacocks.
Wild Boar.
Asian Barred Owlet.