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Visit in winter months for birding. December to march.

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Thanks a lot for the appreciation. Hope to bring my viewers more such content. Traveling to those places are not as difficult as it seems. I found NE to be free of crowd and less expensive as well.

With every trip as I get to see New species I try to memorize their names..

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Thanks for watching ☺ Already upgraded to the z6ii, had my eyes on the D500 too.

Being in nature and spending quality time is more important than capturing it. Glad to know you had a good time.

Take any nature trail, you will see lots of birds, I took the root beside lava monastery wich goes to rishyop.

Thanks a lot. There is one guide named josephlepcha tingbo look for him on fb.

Thanks a lot .. Lens used is nikon 200-500 mm

For bird close-up I use nikon 200-500mm lens along with my D3300 body.

I used nikon 3300d with 200-500mm lens for the closeup bird videos, landscape shots are filmed on smartphone. Although I won't recommend using 3300d body for making video clips, you can use a better body with good iso capibility. The 200-500 mm lens however is a good piece of glass..

@@soumyajitmistry Thank you so much for the prompt reply.

Best time to visit is Feb-june After March do expect some rain. Feb-march weather mostly remains clear. You can contact Mr.Anupam Das he is a homestay owner, he would help you with guide and other informations. 9836087652.

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Its a nikon 200-500 mm lens.

Best time to visit is in winter season. Jan- march. After march weather becomes unpredictable, may rain often.

best time would be feb-june. After march do expect some rain, I choose to visit in feb because at this time weather remains clear mostly. As these places are not that popular its less expensive. For a couple you can book homestays at 900/per day per person including food and stay. car rental charges are only costly thing, but there are sharing options too. you can contact Mr. Anupam Das(9836087652) a home stay owner. He has homestays both at lava and Rishop, you will get additional helps from him.

@@soumyajitmistry thank you very much for the information. It will be great pleasure for me if I could contact you before going there. Thank you a lot again.

Mostly the trail behind the monastery and the road towards koakham. Any nature trail around Lava can be good birding place. Birds were just everywhere.

This video was shot with nikon D3300 +200-500 mm lens.

@@soumyajitmistry please tell me about the combination of 200-500 with d5300.will it perform well??Have you faced any focusing issue with your combo??It would be very helpful for me if you give any solution.I've some focusing issue.please reply!

I have been using d3300 with 200-500 mm for 4 to 5 yrs now, It was performing well, only recently I was facing an issue, that some times autofocus wont work at all. I extensively used the d3300 body for 6 yrs, and often carried my camera hanging from my neck using the camera strap. That caused the damage, the lens mount on the camera sometimes fail to work. The ideal way to carry would be to hold the lens collar while you are on field. You can try to clean the mount of your lens and camera with alcohol wipes/ wet wipes or get your camera checked by a professional.

Winter months would be the best. Feb to April preferably.

For birds I use nikon D3300 with 200-500 mm lens. Landscape shots are captured on my phone.

Rishyop to kolakham is almost 13 kms chaggey waterfall is another 6kms. It is not possible to return to rishyop the same day. Return trek would be difficult steep uphill climb. I returned by car..

@@soumyajitmistry Hi Soumyajit... I have emailed you few photographs as I am confused with some bird IDs. Would be nice if you can help me. Thanks.

@@souravkumarsarkar8386 Thanks for reaching out to me. I have only managed to identify the first pic to be a blue tail female. Not sure about the identification of the rest. And to be honest I might not be the best person to identify birds from photos. Try get your photos identified by e-bird or platforms like that to be absolutely sure.

At lava I stayed at sinchula home stay hosted by Anupam Mukherjee. You can hire a guide for specific birds. Try to find Joseph lepchatingbo and sandip Chakraborty in Facebook. Both of them works as bird guide around lava.

Try to find joseph lepchatingbo or sandeep chackraborty on Facebook. They are local guides. Otherwise you can book trip with Rantu saha (siliguri) but this would be an expensive option as he is not local. I suggest you contact all of them and pick one that is suitable for you. However I didn't take any guide for lava, so no personal experience to recommend someone.

If you want a local guide best thing you can do is to contact Joseph lepchatingbo. You can find him on Facebook. You can book a stay at rishop/lava/kolakham. Try visiting in February.. There are other guides from Siliguri or latpanchor but I would suggest hiring a local guide...

I used Nikon 200-500 mm lens on my D3300 body but I would suggest a better body of camera which has better lowlight performance. my camera body struggled to make good images as most of the places in Darjeeling and Kalimpong region has dense forest cover.

@@soumyajitmistry thanks a lot....i hv been subscriber of you content when there was only 200 subscribers in total....i love your videos very much and wish your channel to grow more

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I will definitely contact you if I visit again. Thank you for reaching out.

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