These are the pics from the rest of our excursion into the Gir National Park, after our encounter with the lion. Again, I am not sure I have got the names of the birds right [These are just a few of the pics, for the rest visit facebook/garlandingindia) May 15 2014, Day 20, Garlanding India: Sasan Gir (5732 KMS) to Jamnagar. This is Part 2 of the post for Day 20 of Garlanding India. After we had seen the lioness Raghu was very (very, very!) keen on sighting a pride. So we drove in further. What we next sighted was not a pride of lions but a proud, brilliant show of colors by a peacock! He just kept dancing and dancing, wiggling his back-side, spreading his feathers, holding his head all the while spank in the centre of his majestic spread. We were impressed, but not the two pea-hens who were the target of his attention; they were absolutely unmoved We drove further and sighted a sparrowhawk ‘break-fasting’ on a snake; and then there was the stone curlew sitting on her eggs. And then the white necked heron followed by the perfectly camouflaged owl. That was something that struck me: how perfectly camouflaged these birds and animals were in their native environs: the chital, the nilgai…. Our trip to the Gir was crowned by the sighting of many paradise flycatchers (couldn’t capture the pic of the white one!) and the beautiful Indian pitta! After a fabulous safari, we came back to the forest rest house and set off immediately (we had a long way to go Porbandar, Dwarka, Okha, Jamnagar!) but not before we got our ranger-guide do the honors of sticking the Sasan Gir destination sticker on the Duster!
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