Trip report of Photo Meet at Bhadreshwar, Kutch
Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:28:49 +0000
After a break during month of May, being summer month at peak, PCoG arranged another photo-meet around Village Bhdareshwar, Kutch. First we visited Chokhanda Mahadev, and ancient Shiv Temple, which was destroyed during the earthquake of 2001 and has been reconstructed. The temple complex is far from the main highway and offers peaceful and quite environment. [...]
Photomeet at Chhari Dhand, Kutch
Sun, 29 Mar 2009 06:18:50 +0000
The previous photo-meet to around Dhinodhar hill and than was exciting and required another trip to cover the area on 16-03-2009(Sunday). Another interesting visiting place near Dhinodhar Hill is Chhari Dhand. We visited Kutch Fossil Park again, and took young Vikram Sodha as our guide to Chhari Dhand and surrounding areas. Chhari-Dhand is the largest natural wetland [...]
Photo-meet at Kutch Fossil Park, Than
Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:24:55 +0000
To cover Kutch of different period , PCoG decided to pay a visit to Kutch Fossils Park situated near village Gondiyar, Tal. Nakhtrana, Kutdch on 08-03-2009. Mr. Mohansinh Sodha of the fossil park , with his sheer passion , sole handly has collected of nearly 13000 fossils of various variety roaming through out in Kutch [...]
Short visit to Shinay Lake, Shinay, Kutch
Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:10:13 +0000
On 01-03-2009 we had little time so we went as far as Shinay Lake for two hours in the evening. We found most of birds leaving for their nests while the sun was setting. The water level of the pond was receeding quickly providing some space for the local farmer to cultivate next crop. Posted in Gandhidham, [...]
Re-visit to pond Kidana and other ponds
Sun, 01 Mar 2009 06:59:14 +0000
Who missed the previous Kidana-pond meet wished to visit it again. Therefore, a full day program was organized covering other water-pools of Antarjal, Shinay, Sanghad and salt pans near Jogninar Temple in addition to pond of Kidana in a circular route. At the beginning of our trip, around IFFCO-Udaynagar , we noticed various perching birds like [...]
Photo-meet at pond Kidana , Gandhidham, Kachchh
Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:30:01 +0000
As the winter season was ending soon, members of Photography Club of Gandhidham, took an opportunity to visit migrating birds before they leave for the year. This time it was decided to visit the pond of village Kidana, which is very near, almost merged with town of Gandhidham. While checking the aerial view of the Kidana [...]
Photo-meet at Village Tera, Kachchh
Sat, 14 Feb 2009 08:39:58 +0000
Village of Tera, Kachchh is around 125 kms. from Gandhidham. The village has been declared as the Heritage Village by the Government of Gujarat recently. PCoG organized photo-meet at the village, to cover its heritage and natural beauty. Tera Jaagir (estate/barony) was considered as the largest having about 40 villages under the Jaagir. The village also [...]
Photo-meet at Village Vira
Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:54:21 +0000
Another photo-meet of PCoG was decided to organise at Village Vira, Kachchh. In the way a small pond was found before Village Shinay and provided some good bird-watching opportunity and spotted (1) Grey Heron (2) Spoonbills (3) Blackwinged Stilts (4) White wagtail (5) Desert Wheatear. After reaching Jogninar Temple we picked up our host Naranbhai of [...]
First photo-meet of 2009 at Jogninar Temple
Sat, 10 Jan 2009 04:58:12 +0000
First Photo-meet of PCG for year 2009 was arranged on 04-01-2009 (Sunday) at Jogninar Temple near village Sanghad. This time we all three , Prabhat, Ajay and myself were present and a new member ,Rajesh Lalwani, also joined us. We reached the Temple at about 10:30 am and decided to have look of surrounding area for suitable [...]
Second Photo-meet at Shinai Lake
Thu, 01 Jan 2009 10:24:28 +0000
Second photo-meet was arranged at Shinai Lake at the outskirt of Village Shinai. Ajay was not feeling well and was not able to join. The lake hosted good variety of water birds. It took some time for us and birds to get adjusted with the presence of each other. Among the birds spotted , we were [...]
