Continuing our exploration of backwaters of Jaisamand Lake for bird watching, last week on 7th March 2021, we went to Naya Kuan Village, located at backwaters of Jaisamand lake, also known as Dhebar lake. This location seems to be good bird watching spot for both morning and afternoon. There were many fields where villagers grow…
Jaisamand Lake, also known as Dhebar lake, is the second largest man made lake or artificial lake in Asia and the largest mane made lake in India. It has approx 83KM square area and surrounded by at least 8 villages along its back waters. It gets water from 9 rivers and 99 small ‘nala’ from…
Udaipur is surrounded by many forests as well as wetlands. Almost every village near Udaipur city in Rajasthan has a lake, small or big. These lakes in in villages host lot of birds, some residents and some migratory birds. One such interesting bird watching location, which has not really got attention from bird watchers Udaipur…
Udaipur is known as lake city in and situated in the Aravali mountain range at the height of approx 1500 feet. Rajasthan state is known to be desert state through out India as well as abroad. But, those who visit Udaipur, they might be pleasantly surprised to find Udaipur all greens! Even during peak of…
We visited Menar, a birding destination in Udaipur, Rajasthan on 15th Jan 2017 with my friends from USA, Tom Piwowarski and his wife, Roselie, my firends Vijendra, Varun and Nirmal in the morning at 6:30AM. We first went to Mangalwar to check out how the wetlands are doing there and if many birds have arrived!…
Tal Chhapar is a famous birding destination in Rajasthan, specially for raptors. We, Nirmal Solanki, Dr. Durgesh Sharma, Vijendra Prakash Parmar and me, went to Tal Chhapar from Udaipur on 4 Oct 2014. It took long time for us to reach there as we drove down in the afternoon from Udaipur. How to reach Tal…
Mount Abu, the only hill station in Rajasthan ( yes, Rajasthan does have a hill station) is famous for its Nakki lake and one will find lot of Gujarati tourists in this hill station. Apart from its ‘cool weather’ in otherwise hot Rajasthan, Mount Abu, which is approximately 170KM from Udaipur, is also famous among…
Recently, we, Nirmal Solanki, Vijendra Prakash Parmar, Varun Luniya and me, went to LRK, Gujarat from 7 to 9 Feb 2014. The drive from Udaipur to Patdi, LRK where we were supposed to be staying, had its own excitement as we had to stop for two hours on NH-8 due to an accident. While it…
I wanted to go for birding tour to Dibru Saikhowa, but ended up spending two days at Notun Gaon, Maguri Bil, Tinsukia in Assam. I did go to Dibru Saikhowa forest but realised that, I have to be inside it for at least 3/4 days in order to see white winged duck, which I wanted…
Dungarpur District Administration had recently organised a two day Bird fair on 21 and 22 December 2013 in order to attract birders from around the globe. The District Collector Mr. Vikram Singh, PRO Kamalesh Sharma etc were involved in organising the bird fair which was attended by many bird watchers, bird photographers from various cities…
