Painted Sandgrouse

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> Since last year i was waiting for trip to kutch during September coz during this time,passage migratory birds come.so booked a guide Vikramsinh Sodha.why we choose him,just coz of he has exclusive and good locations so think to try.<br /> Wake up at 4am and after getting ready driven from Surat to Kadodara cross road to pick my besties Viren Desai and Hiren Joshi,they came from Bardoli.after taking tea break,we reached Ahmadabad around at 10.30am as expected and pick my roomie  Pankaj Maheriya.then started journey towards our destination.<br /> Pankaj shoot our video during journey as a trip report and took our lunch break at Halvad.after lunch again we stared our journey and reached our destination,Kunj Birding Homestay at 5.15pm.<br /> warm welcomed by Vikramsinh,we get fresh ourself and talked lil...sudden Vikramsinh told for tea but we told to go for Painted Sandgrouse as it was walking distance from there but we went there by car as much hot and humid weather.<br /> After Parking of my XUV 500,Vikramsinh show us the Painted Sandgrouse and loved to watch them coz it was in my wish list of beautiful birds. Vikramsinh told that enter in cordoned area very carefully then crawl towards them so we did but terrible experience coz i did it after long time and many time feel a pain of spikes of dry wild babool but result was heavenly.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFgomLNJAgmVjL1dlQ03Q1LAncCzeelPYXq3z4ddzQlh-rpy-1tIi_GqEWBGY1fmpeXw5v6pTgXWDPV55t47liY51cOUkvcLPsTPA-u6CVa4VdhqAueESPiHw9g20cahH0-Juabo6pW4s3/s1600/Painted+Sandgrouse.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1280" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFgomLNJAgmVjL1dlQ03Q1LAncCzeelPYXq3z4ddzQlh-rpy-1tIi_GqEWBGY1fmpeXw5v6pTgXWDPV55t47liY51cOUkvcLPsTPA-u6CVa4VdhqAueESPiHw9g20cahH0-Juabo6pW4s3/s640/Painted+Sandgrouse.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> Exifs :<br /> Canon 7D Mark2<br /> Manual Mode<br /> f /8 || Shutter speed 1/500 || ISO 1600 || 600mm || White Balance : 5200k<br /> Kunj Birding Homestay, Nakhatrana,Kutch, Gujarat.</div>

Painted Sandgrouse

Since last year i was waiting for trip to kutch during September coz during this time,passage migratory birds come.so booked a guide Vikram...

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