Live from the Indian Jungles

My first Tiger!

At last a tiger - the first one after moving from Bandipur to Kapila. The wait of four to five months seemed endless and moreover even managed a decent picture of it.

Two years back when I came to Kabini for the first time with Sarath, I had heard a lot about the jungle, the elephants congregation, amazing birdlife and of course it's reputation for being the best place for big cats in South India.
In my first safari then, we came to this very nalla, it was dry and covered with beautiful bamboos
on either side. As we stopped the jeep a bright colored bird flashed in front of me and went to the bamboo patch where evening light was falling, it was a Malabar Trogon! That too male, perched in open and in evening beautiful light! "Wow!" I thought then, "even if I do not see Tiger its ok, this bird is as great as tiger for me."
Now exactly two years later at the same nalla I got to my first photograph of the Tiger!

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