Kumbhalgarh is famous for Kumbhalgarh Fort, which has the second largest wall in Asia, after the Great Wall of China. But adjacent to this great fort, there is Kumbhalgarh Wild Life Sanctuary ( likely to be declared a National park soon) which is home to many bird species. Recently, we went to Kumbhalgarh Wild Life…
Birding in Udaipur: Ghansa in September 2013
After many days, we went to Ghansa wet land for birding with Mr. Vijendra Kumar Parma and Mr. Gunvinder Singh, both avid birder and photographers based in Udaipur. This was the beginning of this winter birding season for us! It was interesting as we saw raptors like Steppe Eagle, Palid Harrier this time at the…
Birding in Udaipur : Ubeswar ji Road
Ubeswar ji is a Lord Shiva temple, located approximately 20 KM from Udaipur city centre. It is not very well known birding spot, neither a tourist spot. It takes aproximately 30minutes to reach this place by car. On 25th August 2013, me, Mr. Vijendra Singh Parmar and Mr. Mudit Sharma went biding for the at…
Birding at Sitamata Wild Life Sanctuary, Udaipur
On Saturday 29th June 2013, we, me, Mr. Durgesh Sharma, Anil Rodgers and Mr. Saket Sarupriya went to Aram Pura, Sitamata Wild Life Sanctuary, in order to see Flying Squirrel. Unfortunately, we could not see Flying Squirrel as we arrived little late and they did not come out in the late evening. To reach Aram…
Birding at Sitamata Wild Life Sanctuary in Udaipur
Sitamata Wild Life Sanctuary, named after wife of Legendary Lord Rama, King of Ayodhya in Indian epic Ramayana, is located approximately 120KM from Udaipur city. This sanctuary is in Pratapgarh district which is confluence of three major geographic formations in India, Arawali range, Vindhyanchal Hills and Malwa Plateau. It is dense forest which a motorable…
Birding in India : Madar Lake, Udaipur
Birding season is almost coming to an end here in Udaipur except for the resident ones. We ( team of Indbirding.com) had gone for birding on 31 Mar 2013 with few other birders based in Udaipur to Badi Lake and Madar Lake in the morning. We hoped to see Osprey, but did not see one,…
Birding at Talau Talab, Dungla, Udaipur, India
A birding trip was organised on 3rd March 2013 for Udaipur birders at Talau Talab, aproximately 75KM from Udaipur. We started at 6AM in the morning from Udaipur city centre and reached there at around 7:30AM. Talau Talab, near Dhundla is artificial water body used for irrigation. This attracts many migratory birds during birds during…
Birding in India : Bhatewar Ponds, Udaipur
Bhatewar is 32KM from Udaipur City, towards Chittor town on NH-76 just after Dabok airport. It is a village with three ponds which attracts migratory birds during winters. After we were informed by Mr. Mayur Singh, an avid birder, of Rawla Bhatera about pelicans and greater flamingos, we, ( Nirmal Solanki, Harshvardhan Singh Rathore, Vijendra…
Birding in India: Ghasa Talab, Khemli
On 26th January, 2013, we went to Ghasa Lake after getting news of arrival of Greater Flamingos and Great White Pelican in the afternoon around 1:30PM. It is approximately 48KM from Udaipur city centre and we drove via Dabok choraha and turned left towards Mavli. After that, we crossed the abandoned cement [google-map-v3 width=”580″ height=”400″…
Birding in India : Menar Lake near Udaipur
We went to Menar Lake, an wetland just outside the Menar Village, approximately 40KM from Udaipur city, Rajasthan, India which is known as city of lakes. It was group of four people which included Mr. Vijendra, Mr. Nirmal Solanki, Mr. Shailendra Singh Chouhan. [google-map-v3 width=”350″ height=”350″ zoom=”12″ maptype=”hybrid” mapalign=”center” directionhint=”false” language=”default” poweredby=”true” maptypecontrol=”true” pancontrol=”true” zoomcontrol=”true”…