2016_11_20 Valki (Bhalki) Machan near Burdwan

VALKI MACHAN NEAR BURDWAN

130 KMS from Kolkata near Burdwan(Refer Google Maps)

Road condition good along NH2 but not so good for the last 25 Kms after right turn from Burdwan.

Breakfast at Azad Hind Dhaba NH2 70kms from Kolkata. Masala Dhosa Rs 150. North Indian Style Dhosa. Not recommended.

 INDIAN BIKE at the Dhaba

                                                  The Machan

   

 

 

No decent place to stay the night. Don't get carried away by Aranya Sundari and other advertised places

 The jungle landscape

 

 

 

 

 

 

The village landscape

 The birds  and butterfly in Bhalki jungle

Tawny Coster

 Wood Shrike

Common Babbler

 Long tailed shrike

 Olive backed pipit

 Scaly breasted munia juvenile

Indian Robin

 

 Booted Warbler

 Oriental Magpie Robin

Great wood spider

Birds and butterflies Aranya Sundari Valki campus

Common wanderer female (philomela form)

 Common wanderer male

 

Common Iora

 Yellow billed babbler

 Lime butterfly

 Common Mormon

 Common Jezebel

Common Grass Yellow

Common evening brown

The Aranya Sundari campus garden

 Jamunadighi (State Fisheries Complex)

The landscape

 Oriental Magpie Robin

 White Breasted waterhen

 Grey Heron

 Cormorant

Common Sandpiper

Little Grebe

Common Kingfisher

 Green Bee Eater

White Wagtail

Black crowned night heron (Juvenile)