There are few things better than seeing a tiger. Seeing six tigers at once is certainly one such thing. We are currently in Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve, Central India, looking for Tigers as well as the other wildlife. On the 29th May we certainly found some, a family group of six. Mum is a 7-year old tigress by the name of Sonam, who has 4 cubs of about a year old. We spent 22 minutes with the family which started at 6:30 am and involved a lot of wonderfully intimate momen

Sadly it's become necessary to update this post. On March 20th I heard the sad news from Ranthambhore that T28, also known as Star Male or Sitara, died of natural causes. Tragically, it was not natural causes. While the truth is sometimes hard to establish the events seem to have been thus: T28 was old but still in good physical condition. He'd been displaced from his territory around the lakes and had taken a less productive territory on the edge of the park. Like many t

So I've added a few images from the 2016 Ranthambhore trip to the Indian Wildlife gallery, please have a look. I thought I would start this post with a pretty rare sighting and image of a male Indian Leopard which we were lucky enough to see early one morning. I say lucky, but that's not true. We had just entered Route 1 of Ranthambhore, which at that moment was lacking tigers, when our fabulous guide and friend Mahesh Choudhary heard the a single Peacock alarm call (Their

It's been a week since we left Ranthambhore National Park during which time we clocked up our 100th Ranthambhore game drive, spread over 7 visits. We were quite lucky this year as the light was very good, key to that I think was that the atmosphere was not too dusty, and we were also a month earlier. We again had regular, good sightings which is not down to luck. The key here is to enter the park with a good guide, and we have always used one of the very best - Mahesh Chau

Good news about T39. Two days after our fantastic sighting a single jeep briefly sighted T39 with two cubs, which was quite a surprise as our previous observation of her teets suggested she only had one cub. I guess I'll have to study my images in more detail to see if there is a second, less prominant, teet present. We did stake out her new den site for an entire afternoon in temperatures approaching 45 centigrade but to no avail. Happily for us we did encounter the cub's