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Cauvery Fishing camp, Bheemeshwari - 08 May 2004
We planned to go to Cauvery
Fishing camp, Bheemeshwari to get the Lesser Fish Eagle and we got some
decent shots. I decided to spend the Saturday at Bheemeshwari along
with my friend En Chiang. We started off from Bangalore at around 6:30
in the morning. The weather was looking good. It had rained the
previous day and it was quite cool. We reached Bheemeshwari at around
9:30 and met the manager of Jungle Lodges and Resorts Mr Sunder. He
arranged for a guide to send us into the forest. Harsha, who works as a
naturalist in the Jungle Lodges and Resorts, along with Sunder had seen
the Lesser Fish Eagle along the banks of the Cauvery.
We immediately started off into the forest along
with the guide Pushparaju. He was good at tracking the birds and was
also able to ID most of them. For some of the birds which we were
not able to id, we referred the India Birds book, and he was very keen
to know their names and used to go through the book for more
information. I did manage to photograph a few birds. After around 1hr
of trekking, we finally sighted the Lesser Fish Eagle. It did not
have the white tail with broad black subterminal band and hence
we could differentiate it from the Grey headed Fish Eagle. We missed
photographing it a couple of times. Then it flew to the other bank of
the river and we had to return to the camp without any luck.
later in the afternoon after lunch, we set off
again into the forest, but this time on the other side of the river.
Within an hour, we were greeted by the Eagle. To our surprise, there
were two of them. One had caught a fish and was feeding on it.
Harsha reported sighting around 4 of them and Sunder was mentioning
there were more. I did manage to shoot some frames with the feed.
It was 5pm by the time we came back to the camp. We had some tea and
thanked Sunder for his help and left for Bangalore. We were happy that
we got what we came for. Chiang and I were still charged up as we
stopped for most of the birds we sighted on the way from the camp.
Suddenly we saw a fully white coloured bird sitting and preening on the
electric pole. We just could not ID the bird. Then a closer look
revealed that it was an Albino Babbler. Then few more babblers flew
beside it. The group was that of the yellow billed Babbler. I managed
to get some shots of the Albino Babbler, even though the light was poor.
It was 6:30pm by the time we hit the main Road. All along the way, till
there was some light, we kept on watching for any of our feathered
friends alongside.
Here's the list of Avian and Non-Avian species I was able to shoot.
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