Parth, Pranav, Aditya and myself had decided to visit Nagzira along with Abhijit, and his family. 4 of us went from Pune and all of us met at Gondia, near Nagpur. Pune Bilaspur Express - 12850 is very convenient for those who want to start from Pune. It leaves at 5:40 pm and reaches Gondia Junction around 11:30am the next day. We started from Pune on 22nd Feb 2013 and met Abhijit, his wife Dhanashree, son Sanskar and his mother on 23rd. From Gondia Abhijit had arranged for a private vehicle to reach the Sanctuary. It takes around 1.5 hours to reach the main gate of the sanctuary. After having lunch in Gondia, we reached at the gate around 2:20pm.
The sanctuary gate opens twice a day when the cars / jeeps can enter inside, in the morning around 6 and in afternoon at 3. The morning slot for the safari is from 6:30 till 11:30, the afternoon slot is from 3 to 6.
There is a loghut and some rooms available for stay, inside the sanctuary. These are the best places to live, since you live inside the jungle, you can start safari exactly at 6:30am / 3pm, directly go in the core zones. Else it takes some time to reach the enquiry room from the gate, it is around 11 kms. The guides who accompany you from the gate, gets the zone assigned to your vehicle from the enquiry counter. The zones A / B are given to the vehicles, generally alternately so that you get a chance to see all the trails.. From 23rd to 26th Feb, we took 6 rides in all, got equal rides in both the zones.
We started back from the sanctuary on 26th, after the morning ride, took Vidarbha Express around 3pm from Gondia to Nagpur and then Garibrath Express around 6:35pm from Nagpur to Pune, reached Pune by 10 in the morning.
In all we heard or saw around 50 bird species, few mammals in the sanctuary. Only 4 of us were fortunate to see a Tiger. But ultimately it was a good trip since we got see such variety of wildlife in such a short time.
See photos here
Birdlist
- Black Hooded Golden Oriole
- Spotted Dove
- Rufus Tree Pie
- Paradise Flycatcher
- Lesser Goldenback Woodpecker
- Rose Ringed Parakeet
- Red Spurfowl
- Indian Peafowl / Mor (in Marathi)
- Oriental Honey Buzzard - light morph
- Jungle Babbler
- Crow Pheasant / Bharadwaj (in Marathi)
- Indian Roller / Neelpankh (in Marathi)
- Plum Headed Parakeet
- Yellow Footed Green Pigeon / Hariyal (in Marathi) - Maharashtra's state bird
- Crested Serpent Eagle
- Changeable Hawk Eagle
- White Eye / Chashmawala (in Marathi)
- Common Kingfisher / Small Blue Kingfisher
- Green Bee Eater / Veda Raghu (in Marathi)
- Grey Hornbill
- Indian Common Myna / Salunki (in Marathi)
- Grey Headed Fish Eagle
- Black Drongo / Kotwal (in Marathi)
- Racket Tailed Drongo
- White Bellied Drongo
- White Cheeked Barbet
- Shikra
- Brain Fever Bird
- Coppersmith Barbet / Tambat (in Marathi)
- Grey Wagtail
- Intermediate Egret
- Red Throat-ed Flycatcher
- Asian Brown Flycatcher
- Red Wattled Lapwing
- Yellow Throat-ed Sparrow
- Brahmani Myna / Brahmani Starling
- Red Vented Bulbul
- Chestnut Shouldered Petronia
- Magpie Robin
- Indian Robin
- Brown Capped Pigmy Woodpecker
- White Eyed Buzzard
- Rufus Turtle Dove
- Tickle's Blue Flycatcher
- Orange Headed Ground Thrush
- White Breasted Kingfisher / Khandya (in Marathi)
- Jungle Owlet (Malabaricum)
- Iora / Subhag (in Marathi)
- Pied Kingfisher
- Common Hoopoe
- Black Naped Monarch / Neelmani (in Marathi)
- White Rumped Shama
- Nightjar
- Leaf Bird
- Brown Headed Barbet
- Chestnut Tailed Starling
Mammals
- Gaur / Gava (in Marathi)
- Spotted Deer / Chital (in Marathi)
- Sambar
- Black Langoor
- Nilgai
- Mongoose
- Sloth Bear
- Wild Boar
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