Common Kestrel (PB2_8576)
Common or Eurasian Kestrel bird perched on a dead tree in Dhikala Range of Corbett National Park, Uttarakhand.
Right after I took this shot, the raptor hunted a smaller bird, and came back on this perch to feed. We were in a bus full of tourists, and already moving away. I shouted out that there was a raptor with a catch, but no one was interested. Most of them were busy looking hopefully for an unlikely tiger in the grassland. Desperate, I tried to lean out of a window for a quick click. It was an impossible angle to get anything. I leaned further out. With the bus rocking about, I nearly fell out. Then Shruti pulled me back in, and ensured that I tried no further antics. A spectacular shot that wasn't to be, but still a story worth telling.
Common Kestrel (PB2_8576)
Common or Eurasian Kestrel bird perched on a dead tree in Dhikala Range of Corbett National Park, Uttarakhand.
Right after I took this shot, the raptor hunted a smaller bird, and came back on this perch to feed. We were in a bus full of tourists, and already moving away. I shouted out that there was a raptor with a catch, but no one was interested. Most of them were busy looking hopefully for an unlikely tiger in the grassland. Desperate, I tried to lean out of a window for a quick click. It was an impossible angle to get anything. I leaned further out. With the bus rocking about, I nearly fell out. Then Shruti pulled me back in, and ensured that I tried no further antics. A spectacular shot that wasn't to be, but still a story worth telling.