Bharatpur – Agra
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We’ve been busy – in Bharatpur we went to Keoladeo Ghana National Park to bird watch, and we saw so much more than birds! We hired a cycle rickshaw driver who was a Naturalist to point out what we were looking at, and here’s the list: monkeys, wild boar, mongoose, jackals, Nilgai (large Asiatic antelopes) and endangered Indian soft shelled turtles. The birds we saw included Indian blue jays (their wings are turquoise), cuckoos, mynahs, parakeets, peacocks and peahens (one male with a full fan display), white-throated kingfishers, painted storks, greta grey herons, a black-headed hawk, a white ibis, and loads of ibis… It was the closest we’ve come to the peace and quite of home in India. All you could hear was the birds in the trees – no traffic, and no horns and diesel fumes. It was a much needed break…
