Pashan Garh, Panna National Park

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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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QUEEN OF PASHAN GARH STRIKES AGAIN

We returned from my walking safari having seen a leopard in Pashan Garh. Lyn and her daughter Gina from South Africa witnessed the same sighting.

Posted: Pashan Garh by pradip mahato, Date: 26 February 2012

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SITTIE, THE PRINCESS OF PANNA

Sighting with guests Roy from Pune, and Christian and Pablo from Spain. Having noticed her rosettes, they lack the brown colouration that we usually get in Indian leopards. But this is either seen in Arabian, Southern African and Sindh Leopards. We call her Sittie, Arabic name for Princess.

Posted: Pashan Garh by Vineith Malabaricus, Date: 26 February 2012

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THE OTHER USES OF THE MAHUA TREE

During our ranger training, our trainer shared with us some of the uses of the Mahua tree (Indian Butter tree) as Liquor. Jackals and Bear feed off of it too. and of course the Trainer himself as well! But on this day as we dreamed about seeing a leopard, in a full bloom Mahua tree we saw her gazing over the game road for several minutes.

Posted: Pashan Garh by Vineith Malabaricus, Date: 25 February 2012

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TOO MANY HORNS TO CARRY

It must be hard to carry four horns on the head just to please women! "The helmet' rules on the road these days. It is even more difficult o find this four horned animal in the bush. Panna has great savanna landscapes that hosts these antelopes in good numbers.

Posted: Pashan Garh by Vineith Malabaricus, Date: 25 February 2012

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MY FIRST BEAR SIGHTING IN 2012

Wow, what a great sighting! In fact I had stopped my car for sambar and saw something black moving in the grass. I couldn't recognise it at first but when I looked through the binoculars I realised that it was a sloth bear! I explained about the bear to my guests and waited for it to come out, It did come out and crossed just in front of my car.

Posted: Pashan Garh by veerjeet rathore, Date: 24 February 2012

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QUEEN OF PASHAN GARH

She was surreptitious for months at the lodge. Promenades left pugmark regularly. But until this day when I stalked her for three hours by foot, she walks on the entrance track to our Lodge.

Posted: Pashan Garh by Vineith Malabaricus, Date: 6 January 2012

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LITTLE CAT STALKS A LITTLE DEER

Jungle Cats have demonstrated stalking on anything that moves in the bush, from quails to hares. But this bold little one had stalked a young chital for over 100 metres and grabbed it by the neck! Apparently, chital being larger and bulkier than the 6-7 kilograms Jungle cat, plunged in air and swungs the cat into tall grass.

Posted: Pashan Garh by Vineith Malabaricus, Date: 30 December 2011

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Prince of Panna National Park

This subadult male cub was born at 2009 April,now almost mother size,gave us royal look.

Posted: Pashan Garh by veerjeet rathore, Date: 16 October 2011

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DUSKY EAGLE OWL IN PANNA

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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FRUITS OF PATIENCE

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...