Wildlife photography is not my area, but I never miss a chance to visit places where one gets to see the wonderful animals in their natural habitat. It is truly a refreshing and awarding experience. One such place I visited recently is Bhigwan.
Bhigwan is a small village on the Pune-Solapur highway, some 100 kms from Pune. The catchment area of the Ujjani dam build on the river Bhima hosts a number of migratory birds from all over the world. Most popular among them is the Flamingo. The other notable bird which we spotted was the Bar-headed goose. It is the highest flying bird in the world and flies above the Mt. Everest during its migration.
There were many other bird varieties we spotted, the ones which I remember are the painted stork, reddy-shell ducks, open billed stork, black ibis, glossy ibis, terns, black-winged stilt, ring-billed gulls, herons, egrets, plover, sandpiper.
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| Greater Flamingo |
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| Greater Flamingo (Juvenile) |
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| Painted Stork |
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| Painted Stork |
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| Painted Stork |
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| Bar-heade geese |
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| Bar-headed geese |
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| Pond Heron |
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| Black-headed Ibis |
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| Open-billed Stork |
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| Ring-billed gull |
