Vikram_Ramesh1
A moment of lifetime ! The clash of the Titans | Short Toed Snake Eagle with Rat Snake
Persistence and Patience.... The love-hate affair between me and this majestic eagle started around a year back. We used to sight this Eagle everyday in our grasslands, where it used to perch on top of the tallest perch and observe...Just observe.. With those watchful eyes... Once we started sighting this one regularly, we developed a routine which we followed.. Sight the bird in the early morning (around 6 am), stop our car around half a km away so that it doesn't get distracted and wait. Simply wait. Sometimes even till 11 am... With all the hope that it would hunt a snake in front of us, someday at least... It wont be an over exaggeration when I say, i used to go late to work on weekdays only because of waiting for that moment :) But things had its way of working out. We never got an opportunity to see it on the ground making kill in front of us... The hunts used to happen away from us many a times and we were just plain unlucky on most occasions.Patience and Persistence.Finally after a close to 2 year wait, the moment came when we saw the Short Toed Snake Eagle try to hunt a Rat snake ... In front of us... ! A moment i've waited for a long time... A moment which was worth it . All of it...
A moment of lifetime ! The clash of the Titans | Short Toed Snake Eagle with Rat Snake
Persistence and Patience.... The love-hate affair between me and this majestic eagle started around a year back. We used to sight this Eagle everyday in our grasslands, where it used to perch on top of the tallest perch and observe...Just observe.. With those watchful eyes... Once we started sighting this one regularly, we developed a routine which we followed.. Sight the bird in the early morning (around 6 am), stop our car around half a km away so that it doesn't get distracted and wait. Simply wait. Sometimes even till 11 am... With all the hope that it would hunt a snake in front of us, someday at least... It wont be an over exaggeration when I say, i used to go late to work on weekdays only because of waiting for that moment :) But things had its way of working out. We never got an opportunity to see it on the ground making kill in front of us... The hunts used to happen away from us many a times and we were just plain unlucky on most occasions.Patience and Persistence.Finally after a close to 2 year wait, the moment came when we saw the Short Toed Snake Eagle try to hunt a Rat snake ... In front of us... ! A moment i've waited for a long time... A moment which was worth it . All of it...