Species: Cream-coloured Courser (Cursorius cursor bogolubovi)
Location: Gajner Wildlife Sanctuary, Rajasthan, India
Date: 24 Dec 2012
Remarks: If one is aggressively pursuing to spot this bird, it may feel like a needle in a haystack (and in a desert!) however with good optics, if one concentrates for long periods (till the eyes strain looking at barren grounds, and until the ground itself seems to shift after a while - tricky illusions, the bare desert land can play sometimes on a bright sunny day!) one shall be rewarded by the sight of this handsomely elegant bird whose plumage is on the exact colour scale as its habitat - they're quite common at this time of year in NW India and they are out there, in greater numbers than what meets the eye (or really not, most times) and I later discovered how difficult it is actually not, to spot them if you go further west of the country - with flocks of over ten scattered in an area may become a common (and an easy) sight without much damage to your vision. Well, after much spotting exercise here, lo and behold, found something crawl quickly, and pause, my bins lost him (again). Few minutes later, found him back as quickly as I had lost him earlier. Soon, spotted another individual foraging nearby with the usual erratic pauses he made, to his otherwise quick gait, to bend down and feed - characteristic deliberate movements. Okay, I got my bins set on four birds now – all feeding in close proximity to each other but in absolute random directions, no discipline seemed to prevail. Here, counted 12 individuals in an arid stony patch of couple square kilometer.
Equipment: My dearest Bushnell bins, Canon 7D plus 100-400L
Regards
Puja Sharma, New Delhi
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