Birds of Udaipur

Udaipur is a bird paradise, the beautiful lakes cool atmosphere, nice breeze bushes trees and gardens are excellent habitat for birds,

I had spent one fine morning in that place, and sharing my collections,

 

Asian koel female

Asian open bill storck

Black drongo

Black ibis

golden oriole

Cattle egret

 Black rumped woodpecker

Greater Cougal

Greater cormorent

Grey heron

Indian Robin

My visit to udaypur may 2016. The month of May is not the best season for bird watching at that time the rest of India was burning with heat but due to the Lake City and big trees around early morning I can get some easy snap. Photos were taken by Canon SX50, this is a fixed lens camera, which may not be an excellent tool for bird’s photography, but it satisfy my passion of bird watching.

National bird of india

Peacock

Red wattled lapwing

Ring nacked dove

Small minivet

Spot billed duck

Loughing dove

Spotted owl

Tree pie

White browed fontail

White eye

Most of the photos are captured near Fateh sagar lake

Bethuadahari deer park, Nadia, West bengal

Bethuadahari reserve forest is 135 km away from kalkata, nadia district which is well connected by road and train (lalgola fast passanger) with Kolkata, jumgle gate 8km from railway station.
This is a deer park, rather to say as reserve forest, but it is the place where you can smell the nature and feel the wild atmosphere,
The entry fees is 10 RS only per person which may be the cheapest forest of india, no charges for camera, but if you are carrying move camera or video camera it will cost 1000- 300 RS, there is a small museum inside the jungle boundary, where entry fees only 2rs, it displays the history of this area,

 

Jungle lake, you can enjoy boating in paddle boat

smell of nature

the centre of attraction, spotted deer

Scally thrush

gharial in side jungle lake

Black rumped wood pecker

Jungle babler

Greater caugal

tree pie, during sun set

 

I have visited the place in December 2015, as I have reached by 12pm, no deer was spotted in morning season, there was a break from 12pm to 2 pm, at that time no one is allowed to stay inside the jungle, so I have reentered again and able to spot 3 deers, this park was developed by taking a pair of spotted deer from alipore zoo of Kolkata in 1969 which breeds in the forest and not the count is 200, so it is advisable to get early walk at 9am, (the opening time is 9am) as the guides says,
There is no personal guides available forest guards are there in many places they guide the road, also you are allowed to walk only a small part of the forest the rest area is closed for visitors, as in an incident some tourist was killed a deer once,
There was a small lake for boating and in other lake 8-10 gharial are there, also there is a zone of birds and a caged nilgai where the kids can enjoy, two forest cottage was also available for night stay,
Lastly saying do not came to bethuadahari with much more expectation of jungle, you can freshen up your mind with greenery of nature bird sound boating and can able to spot deer and mongoose there.

painted stork

Jungle track, walk around as you wish

Mongoose

Black drongo