Bird Photography At Sattal Studio

Now a days we are seeing very good images of bird by Bird photographers. Reasons are 

enthusiasm.

Facilities

1.Good tripod

2.High end tele lenses,

3. Teleconverter

4.High end digital camera

5.Local Bird guide

6.Bird calls( we dont support)

7.some hides either in resorts or any private property.

    Those who are nature lover like us and budget traveller, I will share something today though we dont support hides (not visited any hide where you can take photographs of birds very close with entry fee like rs 300/- per person or more for a session). We just not love to see people are feeding wild birds for their buisness and that could be fruit to waste of food left by human. Anyway we will talk about Sattal studio here. Nearest railway station is Kathgodam. Early morning take a bus to Almora and get down at Mehragao Country Inn.. by road Sattal is more than 6km. If you are lucky by taking helps of local you can take shortcut(we do now). you will get plenty of foods at Sattal or you can carry. Another short road is from Bikas Bhavan(Bhimtal bypass). In both trek route you can see Nal Damayanti Tal on your left . Sattal studio is a place where different species of birds give good pose in perch placed by humans coming out from natural bush. To avoid crowd go in weekdays and can stay in tent at YMCA there with rs 300/- per person per day and more with bed, without food (according to availability of types and facilities of tents), you can book through phone or email(we hv not stayed yet). Sattal studio is near Purna Tal. Staying at Sattal is very costly other than YMCA you can stay one local’s home if it is not booked and price will vary from Rs 600/- onwards for room(maxm two person in a room).Those who want his number pls inbox me in FB since some guides are using that place for their client(from this place taking three consecutive shortcut one can reach to sattal studio within 30 to 45mins). Here is the link of some bird species you may see in Sattal depending on the season including Long tailed broadbill in summer.

Bids of Sattal Category I had created and uploaded most of the species in Wikimedia commons for open source knowledge