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Originally Posted by gd1418 I was not showing off. You guys wanted to see the new hardware. And thank you for saving me from the chill. I had miscalculated. So, I was looking dashing in that wind cheater? Hmmm.. |
>> Sirjee, in jest - dont take it to heart. On second thoughts - if you have a new toy, why not show off? We subscribe to the idom - "if you have it, flaunt it"
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>> Thank you... if only it was faster. The 2.8 300 is amazing at low light compared to 100-400L
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>> I know. But looking at this pic - this was the caption that came to my mind first and i gave that caption to the pic. Hope you dont mind.
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The wagtail has come out quite nice..
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>> Thanks.
>> Cont the TL
This trip yielded such low returns in terms of wildlife pictures - i am adding some of the pics that we took of ourselves and posting some pics from my trip to Sariska on 29th and 30th June before the park closed.
The arsenal Posing! Clicked while clicking Closeup Happy faces 29th June 2012
This was the trip when I came to know that ST2 had conceived and will be giving her first litter and also had a glimpse of ST6.
Even though it was peak summers - still there no good sightings partially because of the terrain of Sariska and partially because the jungle deptt in all its wisdom is emulating the R'bhore way of dividing the tourist area into different zones to control the number of vehicles, however this move means that with the less number of Tigers in the park - it becomes all the more difficult to get sightings.
Onto the pics.
Hopooe Wooly necked Stork Pond Heron - breeding plumage Sariska Palace from the jungle road ST6 - dissapearing behind the rock. KalaKund is on the other side of this rock
The story of ST6 sighting is pretty interesting.
Harisingh had information that ST6 is near Ghanka chowki. We went there and were trying to track ST6, when we came to know that ST6 had made a kill and it is lying at the same spot for sometime. There is a waterhole of top of a small cliff called Kalakund and this is where ST6 was - it goes to the kill, eats and then goes back to KalaKund and sits there in the water. We were going to and fro on that route when the tracking team of ST6 came and we started talking to them. They showed us the signals. Now we were on the road with the tracking team on our left and KalaKund on our right.
All of us were talking to the foresters and listening to the signals, when suddenly my wife goes - TIGER!!!!
ST6 was coming down from KalaKund - but in the commotion that we caused by this discovery, it got spooked and went back up. We could only click these two pics. Harisingh, the driver and the foresters were amazed at this - because per them, ST6 is normally not this shy and this was not how he normally behaves.
To this day i wonder - what would have been the case had we discovered ST6 a moment later? Would it have come down and given us a good dekho? or would we have missed it altogether? - I prefer to think the later..