A Stag Party on the Grasslands of Corbett

[Shyamala Kumar]

This gathering is made exclusively of stags.Nikon3200+18-105mm F/6.3 ISO200 1/500s FL105mm.early evening April2014.

[Rajan Kanagasabai]

Beautiful composition and wonderful setting, another wonderful living room frame.

Shyamalaji, i was wondering if there is a blueish hue on most of your wide angle shots (or is it my monitor playing up on me) for this one, the mammoth landscape and even the one on the wild boar seemed to bear a blueish tint. If it is my monitor playing up on me, my sincere apologies and kindly ignore this entire paragraph on my this reply. If it is not, maybe you need to re-look your white balance.

regards
Rajan

[Abhishek Jamalabad]

Never seen such a huge all-stag gathering. Amazing frame. There does appear to be a bluish tint in the BG, although the colours of the grass and deer look warm enough :confused: ... Is it the natural colour of the fog???

[Vipin Sharma]

Loved the composition and natural habitant.

[Saktipada Panigrahi]

Lovely composition. Beautiful scene. A large number of Stags carry fine antlers. Nice record of one interesting behaviour of Chital.

M.Krishnan writes:

" In no deer do the groups of adult males, variously termed as schools of Stags and Stag-parties, attain the numerical size that they do in Chital. Naturally, since Chital are found in large herds only in comparatively open country*............In Chital, a herd of Stags may number over 100 and be entirely male, or contain a few old hinds or even a few sub-adult females and they do not alter the overwhelmingly male character of the association."

[*In the Corbett, once the Chital emerge from the sal cover in small parties and they are out in the open, they associate in large numbers.]

Thanks for sharing.SaktiWild

[Mrudul Godbole]

Nice environmental composition. Good sighting of such a big herd of stags. Thanks for sharing.

[Debasis Bose]

Wonderful composition. Thanks for sharing