Friday, August 21, 2009

Morachi Chincholi

I have been there along with my wife and my father-in-law, it was a fantastic birding place. We started early in the morning at around 5am from pune. And at around 7 we reached to Mr Thopte's place.

How to reach –
Take Pune-Ahemadnagar highway and travel to Shikrapur, for a distance of 30 kms.
Ask for Malthan phata.
Take left turn at Malthan phata and travel straight to Ganegaon for a distance of 8 kms.
You need to take another left turn from Ganegaon and travel straight to Morachi Chincholi - MAYUR BAUG. Distance is 9 kms.

I got this from the below web site http://www.chincholimorachi.com

He has also arranged one person to collect us, so that we won't go in to the wrong direction. After reaching we took hot tea and moved in to the near by fields. In one field my wife saw 2 peacocks with peahens both were dancing to attract precooks. At this place we settled down so that they will not feel that some buddy is watching them. We almost enjoyed the birding for one hour, during this time both the peacocks were dancing in front of peahens, and for some duration the distance was too close that we can even here the rattle sound of the feathers. We took lot of photographs and videos of dancing peacocks. After this we just roomed in the field and saw lot of peacocks everywhere. Then we went back to Mr Thopte’s place and had a wonderful breakfast. He was very happy to see our snaps and videos. He didn’t even ask for money to us, he just want us to keep the money near to God’s place.
I really like the way these villages are taking care of peacocks, they don’t even visiter to use flash in this case the peacocks got scared. They also feeds the peacocks on daily basis. Infast one person told me that they put more seeds as they know that some of their crop will be eaten by peacocks.

Please visit this link for my snaps

Suggestions:-
I also suggest everybody where you see the peacocks are present, just settle down and wait for them to come, patience is must. But the only object we should have is we are not going to disturb the bird. If you try to go closer, then will go further. Make some distance and while going take some good binocular with you, so that you can get more close view.


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