The Wandering Cloud I See

This is a story of the journey undertaken by a birder.  The bitter-sweet journey that brought him closer to himself.  The journey that will be his forever! Himalayan red crossbills, the elusive bird that has never been studied in the history of man-kind. Red crossbills are being studied all over the world but not in Himalayas... Why? Why is no one studying them in Himalayas? This question hounded me, day in day out, until I gave in and said I want to study Himalayan red crossbill for my Ph.D. dissertation. We all decided that I needed to do pilot trip to check the feasibility of the project. One and half a month to cover Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh. Starting from central Himalayas to the Eastern Himalayas. Lets do it! I started the journey from Kathmandu. I had barely reached Kathmandu and I was hounded by various tour guides and tour companies asking me to go on a tour with their companies. Finally I decided to take a cab to the location wher