Sunday Bird Walk to Yamuna Khadar
Highlights of today's bird walk: 35-40 Red Crested Pochards, 3 River Lapwings, 1 Short-eared Owl, 2 White-tailed Stonechats, 1 Sand Lark, 1 Common Snipe, 3-4 Oriental Skylarks, 1 Isabelline Shrike, 1 Common Greenshank and 2 unIDed Gulls(pic attached, would appreciate help in IDing.).
A few of us turned up for the Yamuna Khadar bird walk today morning at the Majnu Ka Tila Gurudwara meeting point. The trip was full of surprises right from the beginning. As WingCo got down from his car to greet us, I saw Surya Prakash Sir sitting inside the car holding a Black Headed Gull (injured-broken wing) in his hand which they had rescued behind the IP Power Plant while coming. I was too enthused to hold it but as I got close it bit me and I rested my case and didn't even go near it. I was more than happy to click it sitting on the back seat while it sat peace fully in SP Sir's hands. When we reached the river bank we released the Gull into the water and it swam away happily (or maybe it was just too eager to get away from us!) and disappeared among a big flock of Indian Cormorants (~250-300) and 7 Grey Herons.
It was an extremely chilly and foggy morning and the bird activity was low. We started to get a bad feeling about how the day would turn out to be and decided to drive along the river. We had gone just half a kilometer ahead (or rather back) when we saw some 35-40 Red Crested Pochards and things just got better and better after that…. The sun came up nicely just as we spotted the River Lapwing. An Oriental Skylark was hopping and running next to our car, a Bluethroat giving nice shots to SP sir's camera, Short eared Owl chased by Black Kites, White tailed Stone Chat displaying its tail (folding and expanding like a Japanese hand fan) and much more….All in all an extremely good birding day :)
Here is the complete list of birds we saw….
1. Barn Swallows
2. Plain Martins
3. Red Crested Pochards
4. Gadwalls
5. Citrine Wagtails
6. White Wagtails
7. Yellow Wagtails
8. House Crows
9. Indian Cormorants
10. Grey Herons
11. Indian Spot-billed Ducks
12. Common Coots
13. Black Kites
14. possibly 2 Black-eared Kites
15. a flock of 15~20 Red Avadavats
16. Oriental Skylarks
17. House Sparrows
18. Sand Lark
19. Blue Throat
20. White-throated Kingfisher
21. Brown headed Barbet
22. Red vented Bulbul
23. Greater Coucal
24. Black Drongo
25. Laughing Dove
26. Eurasian Collared Dove
27. Little Egret
28. Intermediate Egret
29. Cattle Egret
30. Little Grebe
31. Common Greenshank
32. Thousands of Black Headed and Brown Headed Gulls' mixed flock
33. Indian Pond Heron
34. Common Hoopoe
35. Red Wattled Lapwings
36. River Lapwings
37. Crested Lark
38. Common Moorhen
39. Bank Myna
40. Common Myna
41. Asian Pied Starling
42. Short-eared Owl
43. Common Pigeon
44. Paddyfield Pipit
45. Possibly a Tawny Pipit
46. Little Ringed Plovers
47. Ashy Prinia
48. Plain Prinia
49. Indian Robin
50. Common Sandpiper
51. Wood Sandpiper
52. Ruddy Shelduck
53. Isabelline Shrike
54. Common Snipe
55. Black winged Stilts
56. Little Stints
57. Temminck's Stints
58. White tailed Stonechats
59. Purple Swamphens
60. River Tern
61. Blyth's Reed Warbler
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