Kimberly all bunched up against the cold.
Just inside the park, our first herd of spotted deer.
Wild pigs, which would be more interesting if they weren't in the streets as well.
Each trail is assigned by the forestry department, and meant to cross a couple of tigers' boundary areas.
We head straight out to a likely spot, and we are rewarded with our first tiger.
Good camouflage. If you can't see it, it's on the top right looking right.
This is a beautiful specimen, and our guide tells us that this is an older tiger, about nine years.
After hanging around for a while, he gets up to leave...
...and there he goes.
We stop for a bathroom break, and are surrounded by "tiger" birds, named for having the same
coloration as the tiger.
One of our group gives the tiger birds some cookie.
I always think of peacocks as farm/zoo animals, but here they are in the wild.
We come around a bend and find a lovely lake with a lot of birds.
The blue kingfisher.
The tufted duck.
The white-throated kingfisher, for which the Indian beer is named.
The painted stork, with a crocodile in the foreground.
Driving around some more, we see that there are deer everywhere.
It is spring, so the bucks have grown their antlers.
Someone asked if anyone collects the antlers, and the guide replies that it is not allowed. The deer
eat their own antlers to recover the calcium.
One of the black-faced (langur) monkeys up in a tree...
...and one by the side of the road just watching us go by.
Starting to make our way back out, we encounter some jeeps that have spotted another tiger, so we
turn around and are treated to this specimen patrolling his territory.
This is a younger tiger, about three years old.
A great shot of him only about 30 feet back from the jeep.
We head back to the hotel for lunch.
This is the whole complex in the background...
...and our little corner of it.
From the afternoon safari ride (trail 3):
After some nap time, we head back out. This is the abandoned fort in the middle of the park.
More monkey activity: these guys just looted the back of this jeep in a parking area, and
they are fighting over what they got.
Two more monkeys fighting, and we have a winner.
See no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil.
A banyan tree, called a "walking tree" because of its air roots hanging down.
We come around to another nice lake site.
It's a little far, but this is some type of stork, more ducks, and another crocodile in the foreground.
A wooly-necked stork.
A couple of grouse making their way along the road.
A nice set of antlers on this one...
...and his harem of does resting in the shade.
The guide called this one a "thick-knee", but I'm not sure that's right.
More deer cavorting around the lake area.
Not sure what this one is called.
Taking a mud bath.
The nests of the weaver bird.
