Weekend! Time to travel! And it is raining outside, incessantly. They say it is a record breaker of sorts to rain like this in Delhi and the NCR. My flat owner finds it the right time to go sight seeing in the drizzle. The place: A Bird Sanctuary.
So we all hop in after crossing the “pool” that had formed in front of the house and set off towards Destinationnext!
The Sultanpur National Park is located about 14 Kms from Gurgaon, on the Gurgaon-Farookh Nagar road. It is a secured area around 350 acres (I read the board there for all this information. Blogging does help you to keep your eyes and ears open!). Now the rain hadn’t fully stopped yet and it was a weak drizzle so the birds hadn’t come out fully. But yet we managed to catch sight of beautiful peacocks out in trees. I am crazy about peacocks and I love them. So I just kept on stopping and admiring those birds with long plumages. You could hear their call every now and then when you had a big tour of the park on foot. Only that, clay was all over our feet! We weren’t able to see much due to the drizzle.
Lush greenery and the faint eucalyptus smell in the breeze, with an occasion call of peacocks and a heard of deer/bison like animals. We couldn’t find out what they were. One of my housemates called them Nilgai! We were sure they weren’t those. But we weren’t sure what they were either. So I finally referred to them as pseudo-Nilgais! We caught sight of a fully plumed peacock’s flight from a tree to another and a few peahens also and a certain ‘woodpecker’ here and there. By the time we were at the end of the tour it was already over 4 hours! And the feeling was amazing.
I have decided I should go back there in winter. The lake there attracts quite a good number of species of migratory as well as local birds.
