Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Vedanthangal Bird Sanctuary, Chennai, Tamilnadu


This is the Siberian Crane. Click it to see full size picture.


The earlier blogpost here showed the brown Pelican in Flight. Vedanthangal is 80 kms from Chennai on NH 45-B. You turn right after chengleput bypass (5 kms or so after Chengleput or was it 23 kms? just ask ok?) at Paliyanur village. Melamaiyur, Karunguzhi. It is 13 kms from NH and ... kms from the Chengleput Toll gate.  Tickets 5 /- for adult and 25/-  for camera. Parking of car addl 15/-.





There is no signboard. Ask your way. Or if you are going by BUS, then take a bus to Chengeleput and then from there to Vedanthangal. Bird Sanctuaries, as you know are best visited between December to March in Tamilnadu because that is when it rains here and is winter elsewhere in the Northern Hemisphere of the Globe from where these birds may be coming.

The slide will show cormorants, Indian Herons or Grey Herons.



7 comments:

Medieval Or Modern said...

Wow...... amazing snap. Telephoto na!! You got those black tips, pink tail feathers and the pink legs so well. Amazing!!!

ShantanuDas said...

hmm telephoto it is!!
u saw the earlier post of the pelican? ... big heavy bird!!

Smita said...

Beautiful pictures!!!!

Anonymous said...

Beautiful Photography :)

Unknown said...

Nice shot!
I also planned to visit VBS...still in consideration...

monsoon dreams said...

hi shantanu,
i think ur bird snaps are very good.yeah,telephoto lens is absolutely necessary.any new journeys?

ShantanuDas said...

Thanks everybody.. no Monsoon.. old journeys still need to be posted.. Not getting time. from work!! Tsk! !

As I take too many photos and like to post them all as slide shows.. ! That becomes a problem. Anyway. now I have scheduled posts till End July 09 and further .. you will get a new pic / post every 4/6 days...

Ifthikar-- thanks.. I also installed Maya..and want to learn .. so u see? too many hobbies.. and none of them pertain to my actual work!! LOL !!

Smita thanks!

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