Poonam and I went to Valley school again today for birding. The highlight of the trip was the rescue of a baby terrapin (a tortoise with a tail)- we saw it plodding along a dry path, so we took it to the nearest pond. We also saw a family of Scops Owls in an old and gnarled tamarind tree. The Indian Roller also gave a stellar areal performance, showing off its bright colors. This is apparently the official bird of Karnataka and AP! The list of birds we saw:
- Red whiskered Bulbul
- Red Vented Bulbul
- Indian Robin (Male and Female)
- Oriental Magpie Robin
- White browed Bulbul
- Yellow Wattled Lapwing
- Cattle Egrets (with orange heads indicating breeding colors)
- Coppersmith Barbet
- White Cheeked Barbet
- Tickell's Flower Pecker
- Purple Sun bird (Male and Female)
- Purple Rumped Sunbird
- Black Drongo
- Small brown dove
- Spotted Dove
- Indian Roller
- Green Bee Eater
- Pied Bushchat (Male and Female)
- White throated Kingfisher
- Fantail Fly catcher
- Tickell's Blue Flycatcher
- Oriental Scops Owl
- Common Babbler
- One more babbler
- Jungle Fowl
- Common Shikhra
- Lark
- Some kind of warbler
- Black Kite
- Oriental Honey Buzzard
- Blue Faced Malkoha
- Greater Coucal
- Some kind of wood pecker
- Red Rumped Swallow
- House Swift
- Wood Shrike (?)
- Ashy Prinia
- Common Iora
- Oriental White Eye
- Rose Ringed Parakeet
- Common Myna
- Jungle Myna
- Jungle Crow
- Olive Backed Pipit (?)
- Great Tit
- Gray Hornbill
Some pics from the web (not mine):
Oriental Scops Owl
Indian Roller:
Yellow Wattled Lapwing:
3 comments:
Nice pics anna,... I think I remember seeing the Indian roller several times in the countryside, or in childhood. What is it called in telugu?
And why not try photographing some yourself? With a high resolution digi camera, I find we can get reasonably good pics... It is a task requiring quite a bit of talent & delicacy (as we found out in the Kavali thota!), but quite rewarding I would think...
Indian Roller=Pala Pitta, apparently. You are bound to have seen it- it is quite common outside city limits.
Shashi bhaiya, it seems you really need those big bazooka kind lenses and expensive cameras to get good pics. There are lot of nature photographers who come along for bird watching with us, and they are very patient to catch perfect pose(quite a difficult task). Next time we you come here, you gotto go for one of the bird watching trips with Krups, I bet you will love it!
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