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Macro photography tour to Amboli hills!

Rudy Birding & Wildlife Hotspots, Featured July 18, 2017May 12, 2018amboli, amboli hills, beddomes keelback, caecilian, macro photography at amboli, Malabar Gliding Frog, malabar pit viper amboli, marbled frog amboli 0 Comment

Monsoon season is macro photography season and Amboli is one of our regular destinations to catchup with the variety of reptiles, amphibians and other species that show-up during the torrential rains. We at Wild India Eco Tours visited Amboli last weekend (14-16 July 2017) with a small group of like-minded folks. Apart from the regular Malabar pit vipers, Green vine snakes and gliding frogs, we had some fantastic sightings of Caecilian, Beddome’s keelback, Marbled frog and even witnessed a Cicada giving birth! Read more

Macrolicious Amboli

Rudy Birding & Wildlife Hotspots August 31, 2016May 12, 2018amboli, banded gecko, bicolored frog, bioluminescent fungi, brooke's gecko, cat snake, ceropegia jaini, dancing frog, day gecko, hawk moth, jumping spider, khaire's black shieldtail, macro tour amboli, Malabar Gliding Frog, malabar pitviper, malabar raven, prashad's gecko, stripped coral snake, tarantula 0 Comment

Come monsoon season; it is the best time to go out exploring for reptiles & amphibians, and we at Wild India Eco Tours decided to visit Amboli this time. Mixed with rain & fog, the weather was fantastic throughout; add to it some fantastic sightings of 6 snake species including the Cat Snake & Striped Coral Snake; over 10 frog species including the Malabar gliding frog, Dancing frog & Amboli toad Read more

Snakes, Frogs & Macro.. in Goa!

Rudy Wildlife August 29, 2015October 9, 2017amboli bush frog, birding in goa, bronze-backed tree snake, herping in goa, Hump-nosed pitviper, Indian Wolf snake, little spiderhunter, Malabar Gliding Frog, red burrowing frog, Saw-scaled viper, snakes in goa, wrinkled frog 4 Comments

Since the day I had planned for this trip, I was scared as well as super-excited; and finally the day was here. I had always been wary of snakes.. hence did take me sometime to convince myself that I have to do this trip. So how was the trip..? All I can say is that it is the closest I have been to nature till date.. As soon as I entered Goa, the fresh air, the green landscapes and cloudy weather greeted me; Read more

Splendid Amboli..!

Rudy Featured, Travel June 25, 2015January 19, 2016Birding at Amboli, Green Vine Snake, Mahadev Gad at Amboli, Malabar Gliding Frog, Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher, square tailed bulbul, Trip to Amboli, Weekend at Amboli 6 Comments

Just when I thought it was enough of exploring the Konkan region, I came across a rustic and a quaint place nestled in the dense forests of Amboli… and we set out on yet another journey, this time to this little hill station in Sindhudurg, Maharashtra. Starting at around 6 AM from Pune, we took the Mumbai – Bangalore highway till Nipani Read more