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...
So ended our shortest visit to Ranthambhore. In a week when sightings across the park were hard to come by, we managed to see a tiger on 8 or the 11 game drives with ten individuals seen, three of them new to us. The stand out mom...
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...
On the 26th May, we had a magnificent sighting on the tigress known as T39 or Mala. It started with a close encounter and ended with following her as she set about hunting deer. She currently has cubs, her second litter, but sadly observation suggests she only has on...
Trouble connecting to the internet has somewhat limited my blogging, which is a shame because Ranthambhore continues to deliver tiger sightings. While sightings across the park seem to be very limited, our lucky streak shows no sign of ending.
A fantastic first day with three tigers seen in two drives. After a horrible journey that involved a 2 hour delay in Heathrow and a missed train in Delhi as a consequence, we arrived in Tiger Moon at 23:30. After food and some unpacking and preparation for the...
Despite deciding we were going to "do something different this year" we've decided to return for a short visit to Ranthambhore. It's hard not to want to catch up with the lives of all the tigers, not to mention the possibilities of seeing small cubs.
