Birds of Valley School

Visited Valley School last Sunday AM. This is a J Krishnamurthy school much like Rishi Valley, just outside Bangalore (20 KM from home). They have the good sense to value the biodiversity of their premises, so they preserve it well. It is like a big thicket of trees and bamboo with a stream running through it (now dried up). It is very serene and one can spend the whole day there. Apparently, leaopards have also been sighted there. Needless to say, pretty rich in birds:

Ashy Prinia

Plain Prinia

Small Minivet (male & female)

Red Whiskered Bulbul

Red Vented Bulbul

White Browed Bulbul

Pale Billed Flower Pecker

Common Wood Shrike

Warbler (?)

Coppersmith Barbet

White Cheeked Barbet

Indian Robin (Male and Female)

Ashy Drongo

Magpie Robin

Shikra

Common Cuckoo Hawk

Jerdon’s Lark

Tickell’s Blue Flycatcher

Paradise Fly Catcher (Female)

White Browed Fantail Flycatcher

Great Tit

Rufous Bellied Babbler

Puff Throated Babbler

Purple Heron

White Throated Kingfisher

Laughing Dove/Little Brown Dove

Spotted Dove

Black Headed Oriole (?)

Flame Backed Woodpecker

Blue-faced Malkoha

Greater Coucal

Tickell’s Flower Pecker

Purple Rumped Sun Bird

Jungle Myna

Rose Ringed Parakeet

Black Kite

Jungle Crow

Small Green Bee Eater

Oriental White Eye

Gray Jungle Fowl

That is 39 species in 3 hours!

Some snaps from the web:

Blue faced Malkoha
Small Minivet:
Flame backed Woodpecker:
White Browed Fantail Flycatcher: