If you want to read more weekend birding highlights, here comes another one for Sunday Birding that Chandrima, Rita, Vinod Thomas, Pankaj and I did at Basai and Sultanpur flats.
First things first - Basai is looking lovely with water in the fields on either side and several of the visitor birds having overstayed their visa.
Also, the path to courser area was completely unmotorable despite so many heroics by Pankaj. Hence no Coursers in the list.
But overall flats are a great sight with a mix of freshly ploughed as well as fallow fields and the overall greenery around.
Nesting activity of Baya Weavers was a delight to watch at flats.
Overall a very pleasant birding morning replete with all the lip smacking pasta and aloo paratha and idlis, Mango Shake et al.
Complete list of Birds spotted is here. Those who were there yesterday, please feel free to update. I might have missed some.
- Pied-Crested Cuckoo
- Yellow-Footed Green Pigeon
- Pied Bushchat (Male and Female)
- Silverbills
- Green Bee eater
- Blue-Cheeked Bee eater
- Blue-Tailed Bee eater
- Wire-Tailed Swallow
- Red-Rumped Swallow
- Plain Martin
- House Swift
- Pheasant-Tailed Jacanas (They are all over the place)
- Green Sandpiper
- Wood Sandpiper
- Marsh Sandpiper
- Spotted Redshank
- Ruff
- Indian Roller
- White Throated Kingfisher
- Pied Kingfisher
- Zitting Cisticola
- Sarus Crane (Pair)
- Grey Heron
- Pond Heron
- Grey Francolin
- Black Francolin
- Black-Winged Stilts (with juveniles)
- Comb Duck
- Spotbilled Duck
- Purple Swamphen
- Common Moorhen
- White Breasted Waterhen (At a nest high up on an Acacia tree)
- Cattle Egret
- Intermediate Egret
- Great Egret
- Crested Larks
- Bushlarks
- Ashy Prinia
- Plain Prinia
- Brown Rockchat
- White-Browed Wagtail
- Golden Oriole
- Greater Flamingoes
- Black Tailed Godwits (c200 approx)
- White-Throated Kingfisher
- Little Grebe in breeding Plumage (picture attached below)
- Little Cormorant
- Baya Weavers nesting
- Black-Breasted weaver
- Black Ibis
- Black-Headed Ibis
- Cormorant
- Eurasian Thicknee
- Black Kite
- Common Starling (Unconfirmed)
- Asian Pied Starling
- Common Myna
- Bank Myna
- Purple Sunbird
- Red Wattled Lapwing
- House sparrows
Happy Birding to all
Soma Ateesh
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