About two weeks before, me and a few friends made a weekend trip to a nearby sanctuary called Tal Chappar. The place was just awesome, but the road journey was horribly long because we took a few wrong buses to wrong places . None of us had ever gone to that place before, so we basically depended on localites to guide us in reaching the place. And how dearly we paid for it. We added 4 hours of extra travel.

The sanctuary is famous for birds of prey, black bucks, chinkaras, migratory storks, russel’s viper and spiny tail lizards. We saw a lot of birds, luckily one of friends was a bird enthusiast and I learned to differentiate between eagles, falcons and vultures and sparrows and larks etc.

Here are a few pictures we took there. I really can’t identify half of the birds. If you can, please comment.

A migratory Stork

A (very rare) falcon.

Nilgai

Some Lark

Chinkaras and black bucks

Another Lark(?)

Demoiselle cranes(migratory)

A wasp

Black buck ahead

Male Black bucks fight for sexual favors from females. We saw nearly a dozen fights.

A falcon, I think

The plain of Taal Chappar

Just inside the sanctuary.

About 5 hours later. We were dehydrated and could barely walk.

On the way to the place, we took the bus ride on top of a bus. And then it rained…

Thats all folks. This is the website of Tal Chappar sanctuary.

These photos were hosted on Zooomr.com, which BTW rocks.See more of my pictures here. I blogged about Zooomr a few months ago.