It was sunday morning and we(Me, Husband Sachin, Son Varad and Sis-in-law Rohini) were getting bored, so my husband said lets visit a temple which is on a hill in Baramati. After this visit we just drove on to Bhigwan road for time pass. We didn't had any plans but we were trying to make one. We had lunch at around 1 pm. While doing lunch I was just surfing through the net and found a place near Bhigwan. A bird watching point, Flemingo point at Kumbhargaon near Bhigwan. We started towards Flemingo point and reached at backwater of Ujni dam. This flemingo point is famous specially for Flemingo birds during winter. But at that point 270 types of migrated birds have been discovered by the bird lovers. The Guide Sandeep Nagare who is interested in birds has all information of these 270 types of birds. He took us from Kumbhargaon to other side of backwater to see Flemingo birds through boat. Birds migrate from northern Himalayas towards south for safety, breeding and food as climate is not good at north. These birds migrate in groups. While traveling in a boat he guided us with all the birds on the way. We saw Grey Heron, Painted Storks, Black Ibis, Sea Gulls and many more on the way. The soothing sound of birds is really peaceful. Varad enjoyed the boat ride and birds. And at last the group of flemingos... It was like woww.. Someone once said "Seeing is Believing" and that is it.. 4 feet long birds, pink legs, pinkish orange body, white-black color inside feathers, long long neck. I have only seen some common birds till date like pigeon, sparrow, parrot, peacock etc but migrated birds are awesome. Flemingo birds are pure vegetarian, they only eat spirogyra. When two flemingoes stand opposite and necks half upside it use to form a heart shape. Human beings are great in their own eyes, but are not much in the eyes of nature. When they open their feathers we can see the combination of orange, pink, white and black which is beautiful, beauty in its purest form. It is a peaceful experience to watch these birds. We were very disappointed that we could not get our cam as it was on the spot plan but where ever possible we clicked it with phone cams. But at the same time very happy to see birds from such a close distance. We were very lucky as we could experience this for more than 15 minutes. After reaching home we all were very happy as our sunday was worth spending at Bhigwan. And once again, January end we are planning to visit the same place. A must visit, a must watch birds and worth watching and spending a day. Even though we are not a bird lovers after watching these we became bird lovers and hats off to the nature and Gods creativity.
Flemingo
Peace
