This was our second visit to the cliffs at Bempton on the Yorkshire coast. Famous mainly for its huge sea bird colony of Gannets, Razorbills, Guillemots, Kittiwakes and Puffins. However, there is more to the cliffs at this time of the year as we found out, if you step back from the cliff top footpath….
Morning Bird Drive at Satpura
It was the last day at Satpura NP before heading home, on an overnight flight. But before we leave there was just enough time for an early morning bird drive. This will take us slowly through the villages and farmland between Reni Pani and the river. Then along the forest edges, beside a canal and…
Satpura’s East Buffer Zone
After coffee and cake it was time to leave on our evening safari to the East Buffer Zone. The first time we had been there. This zone had more interaction with the local village and because of this had encountered problems. With Tigers, Leopards, and Dhole crossing the river and attacking the local cattle. The…
Twilight in Satpura’s west buffer zone
We left the lodge at 4.30 p.m. and drove along the track onto the tarmac road and through the villages, to the entrance to the buffer zone. Our naturalist and driver was Aly Rashid, the owner of Reni Pani Lodge and a member of the royal family of Bhopal. As we drove past Spotted deer,…
Sunday Morning Safari in Satpura
Once again we left the lodge in the dark and headed for the river and the entrance to the National Park. We negotiated the floating bridge by torchlight and headed off in the park jeeps. Early in to the safari tiger pug marks were seen on the sand track. The four jeeps split up to…
Reni Pani Jungle Lodge
After breakfast we left our hotel for our three to four hour journey to Satpura National Park and the Reni Pani Jungle Lodge. Today, 21st March is the festival of Holi in India. It celebrates both the arrival of Spring and the death of the demoness Holika. So it celebrates the triumph of good over…
Heathrow to India’s Satpura National Park
This spring we joined Naturetrek’s Wildlife Festival in India’s Satpura National Park. The group was to be based at the luxurious Reni Pani Jungle Lodge in the parks buffer zone. We were to depart from London Heathrow on a Jet Airways flight to Mumbai. Rajan Jolly had already alerted us to some problems with Jet…
Sculthorpe Moor reserve never fails to impress
A visit to the Hawk and Owl Trust Sculthorpe Moor Nature Reserve in Norfolk never fails to impress. Living about half an hours drive from the reserve and a member of the Friends of Sculthorpe Moor we try to visit each month. Each changing season bringing a different look to the Moor and a new cast of wild…
Giant River Otters of the Rio tres Irmaos
Giant Otters were once found throughout large areas of South America . By the 1970’s their numbers had fallen dramatically. This was mainly due to a demand for their pelts, deforestation, and human disturbance. When we travelled in 2008 to the Peruvian Amazonian rain forest, they had become an endangered species. We travelled by canoe up…
Along the Transpantaneira Highway
Today we were returning to the Transpantaneria Highway in the hope of finding the one target species that had eluded us, the Giant Anteater. The morning was off to a good start as before breakfast a Crab Eating Fox paid a visit to the lodge to scavenge for scraps from the kitchen. As it’s name…
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