Sundarbans: Birds and Beasts

I recently spent a very long and chillaxed weekend in Sundarbans the worlds largest mangrove forest and home of the Bengal tiger. We floated down to the Bay of Bengal on the MV Chhuti, sank to our knees in the mudflats and pretended we were National Geographic on assignment. The tiger alluded us but there were birds and beasts aplenty to distract us from our mission.

Most of the monkeys could be found on the boat but this little rhesus macaque was having a civilised breakfast in the shade of a mangrove tree.

A very rare Ruddy Kingfisher. We also saw a lemon yellow bird and a bright blue bird, some black woodpeckers and different sized white egrets to round out the rainbow coloured birds.

The coy tiger left her tracks (the guide said, by the tracks, she is female. I'm not going on a feminist bender that extends to wildlife.)

A green viper lounging in some branches.

The park rangers' pet wild boar. Don't worry, he's really a pet and not a named potential kebab. 'Tis a muslim nations so no pork to be had in BD.

A kite hunting in our wake.