Sambar stag found just after the rains in Kanha’s sarhi zone. This is january in kanha and with rains the atmosphere was bliss. photographed with nikon d800 + nikkor 200400vr +rice bag.
Tigress resting in water in tadoba. Photographed using nikon d800 + 200400vr + ricebag.
Rajbehra #tigress photographed after a long time in tala zone of bandhavgarh. Good news is that it is now confirmed that the forest officials have seen 4 tiny cubs of hers, cant wait to see them next season (hope they survive) and if they survice the monsoon then next season would be fun photographing little tigers. photographed using nikon d800+200400 + rice bag.
Patiha cubs, the family that has kept bandhavgarh alive & active this season apart from the rajbehra family. Frequent sightings of these has made the magdhi zone in demand. Photographed using Nikon d800 + 200400vr + ricebag in May 2015.
Indian garden lizard (#calotes vesicolor). Common species can be great photo subjects. While at #tadoba waiting for a tiger found this lizard catching bees at a water body. busy with catching bees let us get close on ground. got as low as possible and shot this. taken with nikon 800 + 200400 + ricebag.
Typical tiger habitat of bandhavgarh. One of the Banbai sub-adults seen last year in 2014. They are not to be seen this year, hope they have gone and established their territory elsewere. Photographed using nikon d800+200400vr+ricebag.
Remembering the fantastic sighting of Tigress #Noor with her 2 cubs in #ranthambore in june 2014, barely 4 months they were already curious and got close, always nice to stop and let the animals get close. photographed with nikon d800 + 200400vr + ricebag.
A female neelgai (bluebull) with egret, a common scene at Velavadar. Male neelgais are blueish black and bigger hence their name bluebull or neel(blue) gai(cow), also the largest antelope in India. Although in velavadar they are protected there are other places where they still sometimes are considered pest destroying crop and usually farmers have licenses to kill them. Photographed with a nikon d300 + nikkor200400vr.
Shot this in tadoba near the telia lake area. Its always nice to watch a tiger stalk and get close to its prey. This young tigress missed her chance to make the kill. photographed using nikon d300 + 200-400vr.
3-4 month old cubs from Ranthambore tigress Noor (T39). Even at 1600 ISO I was not getting enough shutter speed to freeze this young one speeding towards my camera. Not as sharp as I would prefer it still is one of my favourite. Photographed using nikon d800 + nikkor 200-400 vr on bean bag.