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Pashan Garh
One of India's smaller but well known reserves, Panna National Park is known for its wild cats, including tiger, leopard and other cat species. Wild dog, wolf, hyena and caracal all wander the park's large plateau. Sloth bear make their home among the rocky escarpments. The dense forests shelter the large sambar deer, as well as chital and chowsingha. Milgai and chinkara can be seen on the outskirts of the open grasslands.
Panna is situated along the banks of the Ken River, which flows through the reserve from north to south, providing a life line to the park's wildlife. Two species of crocodile specific to India, the mugger and the rarely spotted long snouted gharial, can be found in the river.
Dense mixed forests cover the reserve, interspersed with open grasslands and woodlands. Panna lies in the hills of Vindhya range and, after the monsoon season, the deep ravines are punctuated with cascading waterfalls. Streams and lakes fill up with water, luring flocks of migratory birds. Panna boasts more than 200 bird species, with the magnificent colours of India's national bird, the peacock, often spotted in the reserve. White necked stork, bareheaded goose and honey buzzard are among the many other birds spotted in the park.
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 Thanks to Sajith (Naturalist in Pashan Garh) for spotting this beautiful owl which perched itself on the branch of a dead tree. It was late evening, so we just managed to get a record shot.
Posted: Pashan Garh by Durgesh Singh, Date: 27 April 2011
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 It is next to impossible to sight this incredible marvel of nature in Panna National Park , but time and luck favored us. While driving in the park, we came to know that a courting pair were around and so we headed towards them. Once we reached them, the jungle came alive with frantic mating calls. We decided to wait there in the hope that they would...
Posted: Pashan Garh by Rajnish Pradhan, Date: 16 March 2011
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 Hearing frantic warning calls of a Langur troupe we were certain that a predator was lurking nearby. My eyes light up as this was the territory of the re-located tigresses and her cubs were old enough to wander about nearby. We moved on to cover more of the area, but to no avail of seeing any predators. After a while we retraced our path to where we...
Posted: Pashan Garh by Sajith Ponnappa, Date: 7 March 2011
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 We saw this beautiful Brown Fish Owl waiting for its prey close to the banks of Ken River in Panna National Park . Thanks to our awesome Naturalist Deepu for pointing out this beautiful bird. Pashangarh rocks!
Posted: Pashan Garh by sanjay podder, Date: 20 February 2011
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 A hot coffee in a winter morning is always welcome. On our way back for breakfast we saw 2 male Nilgai (or blue bull) sizing up each other and displaying dominance. Tails upright and heads up showing their white patch under their neck, circling like swordsmen. One of them was almost itching for a fight and kept daunting the other male, which tried to...
Posted: Pashan Garh by Sajith Ponnappa, Date: 29 January 2011
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 This sighting took us completely by surprise, at roughly 8:30 am we were talking about how nocturnal animals are so difficult to see after daybreak, but not impossible to see when all of a sudden we saw a big ball of black fur running in the grassland ahead of us - It was the sloth bear! We had a good view, with even enough time to take a few pictures!...
Posted: Pashan Garh by Sajith Ponnappa, Date: 28 January 2011
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 The eastern boundary of Pashan Garh is steaming with activity of animals. After the recent camera trap captures of leopard and hyena, the latest capture is of a Four Horned Antelope or Chowsingha. This antelope gets its name literally from the presence of four horns, probably the only one of its kind. This antelope is very timid and mostly...
Posted: Pashan Garh by Sajith Ponnappa, Date: 25 January 2011
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 The camera trap has proven very effective to record the movement of animals on the Pashan Garh property in the Panna National Park . After numerous records of leopard, this is the first photographic record of a hyena in over 2 years on the property. Now the anticipation intensifies for a glimpse of a sloth bear!
Posted: Pashan Garh by Sajith Ponnappa, Date: 24 January 2011
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 En route to exiting the park from our evening game drive, we saw another tourist vehicle waving at us. Excited we quickly diverted our route, as this was also a know territory of a leopard which is often sighted sitting on its favorite rock. As we got closer we were gladly surprised to see a large python moving very slowly on the side of the road. The...
Posted: Pashan Garh by Sajith Ponnappa, Date: 16 January 2011
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 For the last few months we have had records of Leopards, sloth bears, hyena, different ungulates, civets etc in our property (Pashan Garh). I was even lucky to see a leopard on the eastern boundary, besides a few eyewitness records of the same & some of the other animals by our staff.
We reasoned it would be a great idea to setup camera traps to...
Posted: Pashan Garh by Sajith Ponnappa, Date: 13 December 2010
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