Day 4 at Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve Safari.

27^th Oct, Day 4 of the Safari.5.30am at the gate. It was our 6^th Safari of the tour, after the yesterday’s Tiger sighting my confidence about the good luck got brightened. We entered the safari at 6.00am in the morning with a fresh mood. After few rounds around Telia lake & nothing significant sightings anywhere around, it was well past 7.15am. Just when we were losing hopes again, our guide sensed some movements behind the thick wooded trees, next to the curb of the main arterial road, it was leopard. But we were unable to sight him properly as he was hiding behind the thickly wooded trees. It was extremely difficult to locate him, leave aside taking a shot at him by our lens. We parked our vehicle on the side of the road, waiting patiently for the leopards movements behind the trees. Slowly as he moved ahead, fortunately for us he sat behind the thick bushes in such a way that there was sufficient space in between enough for us to see and shoot his face with eyes staring at us. 

Leopard sitting inside the thick wooded bush was hard to find and locate him

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Humble fellow he was looking little shy & frightened of coming out in the open. This game of hide went on throughout and he never came out in the open, but we were able to take several pictures of his hiding face with gawked eyes. We left from that place pleased with the leopard sighting in its most natural habitat. Later further down we saw Grey headed fish eagle sitting on the fallen tree bark over the water stream looking for its staple food. The star performer of this session was Leopard.

Grey headed Fish Eagle

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