First Ever Wildlife Camp - Pench - Apr 2009 (Camp 1)

Way back in April 2009 we friends and relatives have organized a first ever wild life trip. iCampers seeds were sown during this camp. We were group of 6 planned the visit to Pench national park. At that time there was no name to the group.

In that small camp we had great sightings. Those were the days when I did not have the SLR camera. All the photos in here were clicked using Canon SX10IS.

Folks in this first ever camp batch were –

Vishal, Pratibha,Vijay,Ranjan kaka, Shreya and I

First time we experienced a wild cat coming at a distance of 6ft from our vehicle. It was amazing feeling which inspires us to go again and again to the wild life sanctuaries to witness that excitement.  

Since then we did lot many camps but the first camp still makes me nostalgic!

My Gang

One of the amazing sighting during that camp was the Asian Palm Civet. Since then I had seen this animal couple of times but was not able to take a snap. So till 2014 this is the only shot I have of this lovely animal.

Asian Palm Civet

Babbler Chick

Crested Hawk Eagle

Indian Gaur

Ghost Tree

Flameback

Indian Grey Hornbill

Honey Buzzard

Eurasian thicknee

Hornbill

Indian Roller

Indian Roller

Orange Headed Thrush

Pench Silhouette

Sambar Deer Male

Sambar Deer

Spotted Beauty

In search of water

Sun sets in Pench

Sunset

First ever sighting of the Tiger Cub

Second day, early morning we saw fully grown tigress with GPS collar installed walked from the woods towards us. She was very thirsty and hungry when she walked towards us. She was panting with her long tonge out and breathing loudly. She was so close to us that we could hear the breathe. That sound of her breathe made us breathless. 

I did not have the SLR and big lenses that time. But that was blessing in disguise. With the bigger lens, I would have lost this shot! Anyways the shots were not that great, but good enough to induce the urge of learning photography.





 

Collar wali (With GPS Collar)

Seeing off

Too Close

Hungry and thirsty

In search

In Golden light

Wooly necked stork

Yellow Footed Green Pigeon

Yellow Wattled Lapwing

Flying Squirrel

The Big Group

I pay lot of respect to this group. This camp has motivated me a lot to learn photography, to learn about wild life and also gave me the eye for bird watching. that learning still continues and hope it continues ever!! I can also call it as a rise of  iCampers!!