A FIELD REPORT
Date of Trip: 29th August 2010. (Sunday)
Duration of Trip: 7:00 am to 6:45 pm
Location: Shyamkhola, a birding hotspot located at 24
Parganas (South) near Narendrapur, West Bengal.
Temperature: (As in Alipur) Max 33.6degree °C and Min 27.1degree °C.
Weather: Heavy Morning Shower in the morning then clear
sky for whole day interrupted by light rain. No wind; slightly sultry.
Humidity: (As in Alipur) Max 96% and Min 68%.
Habitat: Rural Area with farmland and wetland having
grass, bamboo, shrubs and herbs along with evergreen and deciduous
trees.
BRIEF REPORT:
It was raining heavily from the very morning and we were afraid that
the trip might get cancelled or delayed. Fortunately, by the time we
reached Kalitala bus stop at 7 am, rain stopped. We started walking
towards Shyamkhola which was 2 km. away form Kalitola. That time the
sky was clear and sunny. It took us 3-4 hours (!) to reach Mr. Asit
Banerjee's (one veteran nature-lover) House near Shyamkhola More.
The road to Shyamkhola was full of herbs and shrubs. The after-rain
sunny climate gave us an excellent opportunity to see many spiders,
insects, butterflies and dragonflies. We sighted two baby water
monitors on road side. Also the arrival of Soumyajit Chowdhury and
Rahi Soren helped us in identifying plants, spiders, bettles, bugs and
of course butterflies. At last we reached Asit Banerjee's house.
Asit Banerjee's house is really worthy to mention as it is a CKBS-II
to us. He and his family members love their surrounding wildlife and
environment so much that he has created a mini-sanctuary of his own
there. After taking rest and refreshment, we again went out towards
the wet-land of Shyamkhola but due to heavy rain we had to take a
halt.
We found that the Shyamkhola-wet land was fully under water and not
accessible to get there. So, we diverted our route towards Rathtala.
With very less sightings in the second half we reached the Rathtala
Bus-stop to end our trip at 6:45pm. Throughout the day bird movement
was much less though we sighted a moderate number of various
butterflies and dragonflies.
TEAM MEMBERS:
Subhankar Patra, Sujit Das, Swapna Bhawal, Avisek Chatterjee,
Soumyajit Chowdhury, Rahi Soren, Prasenjit Dawn, Saroj Kumar Tula,
Manojit Chatterjee, Ushnish Das, Aritra Mishra, Srikanta Dhali, Rahul,
Subhendu and Santhirekha K. (from Bird Watching Society of Andhra
Pradesh(BSAP)).
BIRDS OBSERVED DURING THE TRIP:
1. Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker.
2. Black-rumped Flameback.
3. Blue-throated Barbet.
4. Coppersmith Barbet.
5. Lineated Barbet
6. Common Kingfisher.
7. White-throated Kingfisher.
8. Stork-billed Kingfisher.
9. Common-Hawk Cuckoo.
10. Asian Koel.
11. Greater Coucal.
12. Rose-ringed Parakeet.
13. House Swift.
14. Asian Palm Swift.
15. Spotted Owlet.
16. Rock Pigeon.
17. Spotted Dove.
18. Yellow-footed Green Pigeon.
19. White-breasted Waterhen.
20. Bronze-winged Jacana.
21. Black Kite.
22. Little Cormorant.
23. Cattle Egret.
24. Indian Pond Heron.
25. Asian Openbill.
26. Rufous Treepie.
27. House Crow.
28. Large-billed Crow.
29. Black-hooded Oriole.
30. White-throated Fantail.
31. Black Drongo.
32. Bronzed Drongo.
33. Common Iora.
34. Orange-headed Thrush.
35. Oriental Magpie Robin.
36. Chestnut-tailed Starling.
37. Asian Pied Starling.
38. Jungle Myna.
39. Common Myna.
40. Red-whiskered Bulbul
41. Red-vented Bulbul.
42. Zitting Cisticola.
43. Plain Prinia.
44. Common Tailorbird.
45. Jungle Babbler.
46. Pale-billed Flowerpecker.
47. Purple Sunbird.
48. Purple-rumped Sunbird.
49. House Sparrow.
50. Scaly-breasted Munia.
BUTTERFLIES OBSERVED IN THE FIELD TRIP:
1. Crimson Rose
2. Common Rose
3. Common Jay
4. Tailed Jay.
5. Common Mime
6. Common Mormon
7. Lime
8. Common Wanderer.
9. Common Jezebel
10. Psyche.
11. Stripped Albatross
12. Common Gull
13. Common Emigrant
14. Mottled Emigrant
15. Common Grass Yellow
16. Three-spot Grass Yellow.
17. Tawny Coster.
18. Common Castor
19. Great Eggfly.
20. Grey Pansy.
21. Peacock Pansy.
22. Common Bushbrown.
23. Darkband Bushbrown.
24. Common Four-ring.
25. Common Palmfly.
26. Blue Tiger.
27. Plain Tiger.
28. Common Crow.
29. Brown King Crow.
30. Common Pierrot.
31. Quaker.
32. Gram Blue.
33. Lime Blue.
34. Ciliate Blue.
35. Tiny Grass Blue.
36. Dark Grass Blue.
37. Pale Grass Blue.
38. Common Cerulean.
39. Yamfly.
40. Common Silverline.
41. Monkey Puzzle.
42. Bush Hopper.
43. Chestnut Bob.
44. Grass Deamon.
45. Indian Palm Bob.
46. Common Redeye.
47. Straight Swift.
48. Paintbrush Swift.
49. (Unidentified) Swift.
DRAGONFLIES OBSERVED DURING THE TRIP:
1. Trumpet Tail
2. Scarlet Marsh Hawk
3. Ditch Jewel
4. Ruddy Marsh Skimmer
5. Ground Skimmer.
6. Asiatic Blood Tail.
7. Fulvous Forest Skimmer.
8. Pied Paddy Skimmer
9. Green Marsh Hawk.
10. Wandering Glider.
11. Rufous Marsh Glider.
12. Common Picturewing.
13. Crimson Marsh Glider.
14. Greater Crimson Glider.
15. Long-legged Marsh Glider.
DAMSELFLIES OBSERVED DURING THE TRIP:
1. Coromandel Marsh Dart.
2. Orange-tailed Marsh Dart.
3. Senegal Golden Dartlet.
4. Pigmy Dartlet.
5. Black Marsh Dart.
OTHER THAN THESE WE OBSERVED THE FOLLOWING:
1. Garden Lizard.
2. Five-stripped Palm Squirrel.
3. Bronze Grass Skink.
4. Grey Mongoose.
5. Common Green Vine Snake (Laudaga).
6. Rat Snake (Darash).
7. Water Monitor (Varanus salvator).
8. Skipper Frog.
9. Indian Bull Frog.
10. Common Toad.
11. At least 14 types of Spider.
12. At least 10 types of Grasshopper.
13. At least 10 types of Ants.
14. At least 9 types of Beetle.
15. At least 4 types of Bug.
Thanks to Subhankar da (Subhankar Patra) for helping me and guiding me
in writing this report. His encouragement is helping us to produce
this weekly report on our field trips. Also thanks to all team members
for their contribution in bringing out this report. Thanks to Sujit da
(Sujit Das) for formatting the report in such a good way.
Cheers,
Avisek Chatterjee on behalf of the team members.
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