and it is huge -- i would imagine one could get lost there -- and it could
throw up any species -- and in monsoon season and winter it would be a total
birders paradise -- want to visit the place again -- chandrima
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From: Soma Ateesh <soma.ateesh@gmail.com>
To: chandrimaroy@yahoo.com; delhi birdpix googlegroups
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Sent: Thu, June 16, 2011 10:34:17 PM
Subject: Re: (delhibirdpix) trip to sultanpur, bhindawas , matanhale
To add to lovely report below, I especially wanted to mention about
mini forest areas called Bannees (Ban or Van being the larger forest)
which preserve a unique ecosystem and should be protected. We saw one
such Bannee at Matanhale which except for human and cattle crap was
quite a well preserved habitat. Predominant vegetation is of Jaal
trees and Indian Babool sorrounding small ponds, most of them being
dry right now. Due to shortage of time, we couldn't stay for long but
that's an area that can throw up almost anything. We saw flock of
Small Minivets, Gray-bellied Cuckoo family with a hepatic female (my
lifer) being chased away by Bay-backed Shrike (they are everywhere), a
family of White-browed Fantail and a Large Cuckooshrike much to our
delight. Amogst other commoners at ease in the Bannee were a flight of
Wire-tailed Swallows that included their young ones all on a tree
which I found delightfully natural, considering I have always seen
them either flying or on overhead wires. Orioles, Grey Hornbill and
Barbets sang away melodiously while a group of Black-headed Ibises
roamed freely in the Bannee land. All in all I was very taken in by
this mini ecosystem so beautifully nestled between villages of
Matanhale and would like to visit again in future.
Good Summer Birding to all ...
Soma
On 6/16/11, chandrima roy <chandrimaroy@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear All--
> On 5th Sunday we got to know that There was a nesting barred button
> quail
> at asultanpur - the earliest that Soma cud go was 13th so I informed
> Sanjay
> that Soma and I and Gunjan will go to Sultanpur on the 13th -- he
> said
> fine but he cud not guarantee that the bird would be there till 13th so
> I
> tied up with him for the 7th as my daughter who is currently visiting me
> planned to spend the 7th with her friends -- and Gunjan went on the 8th –
> Both of us have already sent our individual experiences .
>
> But birding on 13th was on eitherways now --inbetween Rita called and
>
> when she heard about our plans she wanted to join in – the three of us
> decided
> to spend the day at Sultanpur , Bhindawas and Matanhale – foot loose and
> fancy
> free trio – and what a day it was !!!
> !3th early morning we started the day at 6am, wanted to start earlier
> but
> my driver refused to come before 6am – so we first went to --
>
> Sultanpur -- the highlight there was chestnut bellied Sandgrouse with
> chicks
> -- ; southern grey shrikes mating and rain quail. We saw the nest of the
> barred button quail with the hatched eggs - the brood must be some where
> around but we cud not see them -- we took the pictures of the hatched eggs
> --
> as we had never seen quails eggs before – we were amazed to see how neatly
>
> they had hatched – Nature is Awesome -
>
> Bhindawas—godwits Black tailed ;black bittern
>
> Matanhale –little minivets ;white browed fantails; bay back shrikes they
> must
> be nesting there as they were pecking and chasing the grey bellied cuckoos
> –male and the hepatic female we also saw the juv of the grey bellied
> cuckoo—many painted snipes Kentish and little ringed plover and flocks of
> streaked weavers and black breasted weavers and yellow bittern and the
> PIED
> CUCKOO , large cuckoo shrike
>
>
> In all we saw 105 species and our day ended at 10.30 pm -- what a day it
> was!!!! With the hot sun , wind and sand in our hair …
>
> Soma has taken the picturesas mine after a few shots at Sultanpur the
> battery stopped co-operating She will be sending the pics shortly.
>
> List
> 1-house sparrows
> 2-sand grouse with 3 chicks
> 3-southern grey shrikes
> 4-crested larks
> 5—bush lark
> 6—ashy crowned sparropw lark
> 7 oriental skylark
> 8-paDDY FIELD PIPIT
> 9-Rain quail
> 10- blue cheeked bee eater
> 11-green bee eater
> 12- pied bushchat
> 13- brown rock chat
> 14—plain prinia
> 15 –ashy prinia
> 16 – trhick knees
> 17 –silver bills
> 18—white breasted king fisher
> 19- common babbler
> 20—large grey babbler
> 21—spotted owlet
> 22--common myna
> 23—bank mynas
> 24—asian pied starling
> 25 – brahminy mynas
> 26—indian robin
> 27—shikra flying sultan pur and nesting shikra with white chicks near
> matanhale
> 28—coot
> 29--white breasted water hen
> 30 – common moor hen
> 31—purple swamp hen
> 32—little grebe
> 33---little cormorant
> 34—darter
> 35—black headed ibis
> 36 purple heron
> 37—grey heron
> 38—catle egret
> 39—intermediate egret
> 40—black necked stork
> 41—painted snipes
> 42—coucal
> 43-stilts
> 44—streaked weavers
> 45—black breasted weavers
> 46--baya—weavers
> 47—zitting cisticolas
> 48—pheasant tailed jacanas
> 49—red wattled lapwing
> 50—little ringed plover
> 51—kentish plover
> 52—yellow bittern
> 53—comb duck
> 54—lesser whistling teals
> 55-godwit
> 56—spot billed ducks
> 57—red vented bulbuls
> 58—house crow
> 59—alexandrine parakeet
> 60 – drongo
>
> 61—barn swallow
> 62—wire tailed swallow
> 63 – house swift
> 64—tailor bird
> 65—purple sunbird
> 66indian roller
> 67—black shopuldered kite
> 68--eurasian collered dove
> 69—turtle dove
> 70—hoopoe
> 71—Chestnutr shouldered petronia -- beautiful yellow in the throat –
> matanhale
> 72--magpie robin
> 73—pied cuckoo
> 74—hepatic grey bellied cuckoo – femal;e
> 75—grey bellied cuckoo male
> 76—large cuckoo shrike
> 77—yellow footed green pigeon
> 78—black ibis
> 79—small minivet
> 80 ---golden orioles
> 81 – white browed fan tails
> 82—white cheeked bulbuls
> 83--Common wood shrikes
> 84—bay back shrike
> 85—yellow crowned wood pecker
> 86—black rumped flame back
> 87—grey hornbill
> 88 copper smith barbet
> 89—asian kowel
> 90--Common hawk cuckoo
> 91--great egret
> 92 -- rose ringed parakeet
> 93 streak throatedc swallows
> 94—plain martins
> 95—little egret
> 96—red collared dove
> 97---peafowl
> 98—rock pigeon
> 99-great cormorantn
> 100—black bittern
> 101--black crowned night heron
> 102gronze winged jacana
> 103—white wagtail
> 104 – black francolin – male and female
> 105---Pied king fisher
>
> It was a very satisfying birding day –we had carried our food with us and
> had
> tea and drinks on the way –– pics from Soma will follow --Cheers ---
> Chandrima
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