Saturday 2 February 2013

Bhigwan Bird Watching Trip 2-Feb-2013

After first Bhigwan bird watching trip, I got another chance to visit the same place again after 14 days. Just to avoid almost the same travel blog on Bhigwan trip, I’m posting a few photographs and link to the original travel blog.
Click here for Bhigwan Bird Watching blog.

About Bhigwan Bird sanctuary:
           Bhigwan, a catchment area of Ujani Dam, is about 105 km from Pune on the Pune-Solapur highway (NH-9). An area of about 18000 hectares has been proposed as a sanctuary for migratory birds. The water catchment area is spread across around the town of Bhigwan. It is an amazing place to see wetland migratory birds like Bar-Headed Goose, Greater Flamingo, Ruddy Shelduck, many spices of ducks and many more birds.
           To reach Diksal village (near Bhigwan), the easy way is Pune – Hadapsar – Join Solapur highway – Drive your vehicle 100km from Pune on Highway – Do not use Bhigwan flyover – Take a left at Bhigwan square on the highway – Drive 3 to 3.5km – Take right for sanctuary. How to identify correct right turn is; you can spot water tank tower (yellow coloured) on that T junction at the left-hand side of the road. Otherwise, ask local villagers about Diksal / “where can we see Rohit bird (Marathi name of Greater Flamingo bird)?”

Travellers for this trip were me along with my 13 office colleagues 

Here are some photographs:





















Thanks for reading this Travel Blog. 
Happy travelling.
Pritesh Kulkarni
Pune.

3 comments:

  1. There are times in our lives where we all deserve to have a break. Most of us would love to go to different places in order to revel in the new atmosphere and discover many amazing things.

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  2. Very nice photos of birds..
    Could you publish all birds photos with names and its speciality to identify..? It will be so helful for bird watching.

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    1. you can check my other Blogs on Bhigwan. you will find all birds name and photo which i manage to click in Bhigwan area

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