While Rishi’s 14 hour work schedule was taking a toll on his health, no birding in the past 6 months meant that we had to plan something quick, eventually settling on Vietnam which was a short hop from India and had several endemic birds with unfortunately, an uncertain future. The trip was largely a success […]
Birds
Of fjords and the midnight sun
In the backdrop of some radio noise about a virus breakout in Wuhan, we booked our flights to Kirkenes in March 2020 believing that this will be over by May. Little did we know that CoV-19 would ground us for a while. This was also the time when business ethics were put to test and […]
Seychelles, Mauritius & Réunion
We still vaguely remember seeing a long tailed bird at La Digue in 2010 but never thought that this bird would call us back to the islands after 12 long years. This eventually happened during the 2022 Diwali holidays and with the help of cloudbirder trip reports, we chalked out an itinerary covering Seychelles, Mauritius […]
Where Eagles Dare
2020 went by without any travel, so as soon as we got the opportunity, we decided to search for the birds that we were missing from India. And what better way to start than Eaglenest 🙂 Birding with Khandu: The key to Eaglenest is Khandu, a local who knows the forest inside out. Khandu ended […]
Sabah III
29 August 2017: Day 9 (Maliau Basin) We followed the same routine as yesterday and after a filling breakfast, started off birding at 0700 Hrs and while the Black-headed Pitta was still calling from the Wildlife trail, we decided to explore the EE trail today hoping to find a few new birds. Initially, the trail […]
Sabah II
25 August 2017: Day 5 (Kinabalu Park – Crocker Range, Gunung Alab/Rafflesia Forest) Today was our last day at Kinabalu Park and we were up there at 0600 Hrs and parked our vehicle close to the intersection of the Silau-Silau and the Kiau View trail. Shifu soon picked up the calls of the Bare headed […]
Sabah
Background: After our marathon road-trip across India and a few short trips thereafter; the plan was to wait out the monsoon season at home and take some much deserved rest. However, the nomads in us were soon yearning for another adventure and to escape the Indian monsoons, the world map was spread out to scout […]