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Leopard on the rock

Today afternoon while we were driving in one of the areas known for good sighting of Leopards, we heard some alarm call made by a Sambar. We rushed to the place where the call was coming from & kept on checking the rocks around. Suddenly we saw a leopard on the rock which looked like a male. It was moving from one rock to the other & we kept following it....

Posted: Baghvan by Kunwar Rawat, Date: 2 December 2008

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Jodamunnara Tigress

I saw this tigress on the road. Initially for 10 minutes it walked before my vehicle. Marking its territory in between. It kept moving on and off the road, sat on the grass moving its tail, went away from the vehicle and again came towards us. At one point she just turned back after coming near the bonnet. This went on for 2.5 hours. All this while she...

Posted: Baghvan by Kunwar Rawat, Date: 23 November 2008

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Elusive Tigress,Cubs in tow.

We were driving in an area where we dont go often.But its a tigress territory.Faye[guest] spotted some movement in dense undergrowth.We stopped to check.Something moved very slowly and then it stared at us.Tiger!!.And she was not alone.She started to move backwards.So we reversed and parked ourselves at a distance.Langur and Chital distress calls went...

Posted: Baghvan by Vrushal Pendharkar, Date: 5 November 2008

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Courting Tigers

I was telling Neel,our Operations Manager about the recent wild dog sightings as we were crossing a nalla[dry river bed].Neel spots something behind a cluster of boulders.There's only its head sticking out.But its a very big impressive head.Its a tiger.The dominant male tiger here.It stares at us almost balefully for a good two minutes.Then trots off in...

Posted: Baghvan by Vrushal Pendharkar, Date: 18 October 2008

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Sighting of a rare bird in Pench

Pench is one of the best places for Birdwatching, as it is a place where one can even see the birds that are passage migrants. It was a morning drive and i was driving to the park gate with my guest and I spotted this bird which was the Black-Headed Bunting perching on the wire. I stopped my vehicle and showed the guest who got exited after telling that i...

Posted: Baghvan by Karun Verma, Date: 15 October 2008

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Season's first Wild dog

While driving towards the backwaters, saw a pack of Wild dogs on road around a bend. Stopped to see this beautiful pack wander around and go past my vehicle. After sometime while returning back on the same road saw the pack to the left, some distance from the road. After scanning for a while, got the reason. They had made a kill of a male Spotted Deer...

Posted: Baghvan by Durgesh Singh, Date: 14 October 2008

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New Season’s Tiger cubs

It’s been some days as our lodge re-opened after the monsoon season and the park is looking lush and green but there was no sigh of big cats specially tiger. It was 10th morning and I was driving close to a water hole and we heard lots of Langur (Monkeys) alarm calls. We stopped there for around 20-25 minutes and the alarm calls were still coming and that...

Posted: Baghvan by Karun Verma, Date: 13 October 2008

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Leopards at Large

New season has began here with a lot of aniticipation.Pench is a great place for leopards.And in this 1st week it has lived up to it.In the last 3 days guests have seen 3 leopards.At 07:30- we had seen a male leopard for about an hour.Mostly sunning itself and shifting rocks to get away from the crowd that was watching it.Immediately after we spotted this...

Posted: Baghvan by Vrushal Pendharkar, Date: 7 October 2008

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Season's First Tiger

Just after the day Pench National Park opened, at around 10am we saw the tiger near the river. It was a beautiful sight to see this big cat in the water with half of the body outside, staring at us. It was cooling off as the day was getting hotter and was quite relaxed. Guests were thrilled to see such a beautiful creature for the first time in their...

Posted: Baghvan by Durgesh Singh, Date: 2 October 2008

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its raining tiger cubs!!

In last one week two Tigress have given birth to 4 and 3 cubs! respectively. The dominant female has littered 4 cubs and her so called female cub we used call her, now an adult has littered 3!. Its is suspected that the dominant female's second female cub also given birth (still waiting for confirmation for this). So coming season Banghavan, Pench will...

Posted: Baghvan by Harsha J, Date: 28 May 2008

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