Hide Photography
Eldhose Birding Hide provides an excellent opportunity to observe and photograph a wide variety of birds at close proximity. We have four hides which are strategically placed and one can expect to get an excellent photograph with clean background.
The best season to visit our hides are from September 15 – March 30th. Capacity is 10 person per hide and we can accommodate 20 people per day in different hides.
DETAILS
- Location: Thattekad , Munnar
- Closest airport: Cochin International Airport (COK) one hour drive
- Suggested focal length : 200 mm – 600 mm.
- Morning Session : 6:30 am – 9.00 am.
- Afternoon Session : 2:15 pm – 6.00 pm.
- Required Clothes : Brown, Black , Green
- Distance From Eldhose Birding Lodge : Two hides are very close to the stay (100 m). Other two hides are within 4 kms.
- Transportation to the hides can be provided on prior booking.
Checklist of Birds
- Black naped monarch male
- Brown cheeked fulvetta
- Brown breasted flycatcher
- Asian fairy blue bird male and female
- Blyths starling
- White cheeked barbet
- Rusty tailed Flycatcher
- Asian Paradise flycatcher female
- Puff throated Babbler
- Dark fronted babbler
- White bellied blue flycatcher
- Blue throated Blue flycatcher male and female
- Yellow browed bulbul
- Red spurfowl
- Cinerous Tit
- Orange headed Ground thrush
- Malabar grey hornbill
- Black rumped flameback
- Grey jungle fowl male and female
- Rufous Treepie
- White throated Kingfisher
- Jungle babbler
- Racket tailed drongo
- Red whiskered bulbul
- Mottled wood owl
- Grey Headed Bulbul
- Indian Roller
- Golden Fronted Leaf Bird
- Black Throated Munia
- Brown Shrike
- Hill Myna
- Purple Sunbird
- Verditer Flycatcher
- Malabar Barbet
- Ashy drongo
- Philippine Shrike
- Black Baza
- Indian pitta
- White breasted water hen
- Indian blue robin
- White bellied Treepie
- Malabar whistling Thrush
- Malabar trogon
- Little spider hunter
- Flame throated bulbul
- Drongo Cuckoo
- Spotted Dove
- Streak Throated Woodpecker
- Red Vented bulbul
- Malabar Parakeet
- Nilgiri Flower Pecker
- Brown Cheeked Fulvetta
- Lesser Yellow Nape
- Brown Hawk Owl
- Brown Fish Owl
- Jungle Owlet
- Slaty Legged Crake
- Slaty Breasted rail
- Purple Sunbird
- Ashy Wood Swallow
- Golden Oriole
- Common Kingfisher
- Rosy Straling
- Asian Koel
- Indian Blackbird
DO’S and DONT’S
- Please adhere to the hide timings. No one will be allowed to join or come out once the hide session starts.
- Do not try to move around or switch the seats inside the hide.
- Do not wear bright color clothes for the hide sessions.
- Carry water bottles along with you to the hide if required.
- Do not leave water bottles and snack packets inside the hide once the session over.
- Maintain silence throughout the session .
- Carry Tripod, extra battery as well as memory cards for the hide session.