trip report

[Bhargava Srivari]

A black-naped hare shot at bandipur last week.

canon 60D, canon 100-400 L IS, bean bag support
f5.6, SS 1/250sec, ISO 400, EV -0.3, 400mm, 6:15pm.

It was a disappointing trip in terms of sightings- but the forest was unusually green, making it very beautiful

For anyone with a 600mm reach, it would have been one helluva lovely trip- we had seen so many birds that we never had seen before in bandipur! The white-bellied woodpecker, small minivets, tickell's blue flycatcher, indian pitta, orange-headed thrush, blue bearded bee eater, asian paradise flycatchers, changeable hawk eagle, serpent eagle, flameback woodpeckers, brain fever bird and not to forget common species of the bushcats, bee eaters, pipits, robins! The icing on the cake was the sight of yellow-footed pegions mating! From the mammals, there was nothing much- no tigers, no leopards...but bigger than them all- the leopard cat at 8:30 in the night on the ooty road So bad that I didn't manage even a record shot- it was gone before I could focus