Saturday, May 7, 2016

Flamingo Watch....Unusual way and unknown path.....

Every time I passed by the Airoli bridge I always lookout for the white spots in creek spread over acres separating you from the tall scrapers of Mumbai seen from the distance. Every single time I made myself a promise to get out of the car or stop the bike and wait and have a look. But could not do it.  I wonder why?




The child in you wants to do it but the adult wants to rush to office or is in some hurry or perhaps considers it stupid or crazy. But Tell you what being a little crazy can lead to awesome......



This is exactly what happened to me back in month of May 2015. Thanks to my school friend who happened to confirm an 11th hour program to wake up on a Sunday morning and set ourselves to watch birds....birds of some special class.....precisely flamingos........!!!





 Often it’s good not to know much about places or the wild life and just keep exploring the unknown and follow your instincts. Your mind gets cluttered with some innocently curios questions, where can we spot them can we get up close or can we really spot them???

From my past travel experience I knew All these questions get answered and gradually so.....you just need the trust and belief......




An hour’s drive in the clear and shining sky and we reached the bridge. As we walked along the bridge we could see those white spots in the dark mushy land around the creek.

Thanks to the 50x zoom of the camera we could see them munching breakfast in the early morning.....




About an hour or so as the sun started rising above us...we could watch a few number of those birds.There was a range of others birds too and we were lucky to get a few shots of those in addition to the lovely tweets.....



And a lonely boatman and another one floating on a tyre 








By now We were drenched and having had a fair look of the bird although from a distance , were on the verge of returning back home.
But right at that moment something happened and we changed our minds to move to Vashi to see the beautiful Municipal corporation building with the tall flag shining high filled our chest with pride.






And then we took our path back home and moments later on our left somewhere near seawoods we saw a larger field with what appeared as some birds.... just for curiosity we stopped the bike and made the walk for about 30 meters ....and then what found our sight was Unbelievable to say the least....

EUREKA...........




This was a Eureka moment ......we were searching for this for the last 3 hrs...all the questions answered....


Right in front of us was the flock of a thousands of flamingos spread across around half a kilometer long belt assembled. As we moved closer we could hear the sounds in a range as if the gathering was an exchange of some thoughts ......a few posed for our shots....




As we glimpsed through the 50x closely we found a hurdle at the centre where the most noisy and active group moved around consisting of some 30 odd birds....


Some flew above some opened there wings to show the beautiful pink tinge on their feathers....

This was all worth it ...never dreamed of such a sighting.....it filed our hearts with a lot of joy as we had not set out with such high hopes...  




But as I had always experienced if you have the belief the wild will pull into such moments ....you just need the patience and wait for nature to bestow its favors......and that precisely what happened on that Sunday.......

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