Hi all -- as I had not been to dighal for sometime I thought that before going out of delhi this month I must pay it a visit – Rakesh off and on would ask me when would I pay a visit to Dighal – it amused him to see how I loved to buy the village products (gur and veggies etc…)- So on Thursday I announced to him I am coming –the cab driver and I got lost enroute so many road bifurcations !!!-- and people in jhajjar look at you askance when yu ask them about Dighal – The Driver mumbling that Madam always sets off to some unheard of destination ….-- so called Rakesh for directions and was told to ask for rohtak and then after a few miles dighal village bus stop –
On reaching Dighal there I saw Rakesh patiently waiting – the driver refused to budge without refreshing himself so ordered tea and mathi for him while Rakesh and I studied his bird list and I told him to show me all these –
We visited the spot where the warblers were and around that area he had seen the Red headed falcon –we saw the warblers and plucked Beris from the BER tress in the area the farmer gave half a bag full of them –I did not waste time eating them as I had read that to absorb the suns energy one must consume plucked food within 24 hours That is the reason the villagers do not fall ill -- the SUN builds up their immunity level –
After that he took us around – it is a maze – water spots , fields , scrub areas -- like me he loves to see and study birds and never tires of seeing them over and over again – he told me that the Alexandrine parrots eat the kernel inside the ber seed instead of only eating the fleshy parts – who would know that – I certainly did not
Check list from !0am till 5pm
Alexandrine
Asian pied starling
Bank myna
Barheaded geese
Barn swallow
black drongo
black francolin
black kiter
black red start
Black crowned night heron
Black winged kitebluethroat
Booted warblers
Brown rock chat
Cattle egret
Citrine wagtail
Common chiff chaff
Common hoopoe
Common kestrel
Common king fisher
Common moor hen
Common myna
Common pigeon
Common sandpiper
Common stonechat
Common tailor bird
Common teal
Egyptian vulture
Eurasian collared dove
Eurasian coot
Eurasian spoon bill
Eurasian widgeon
Ferruginous duck
Gadwall
Garganey
Graceful prinia
Great cormorant
Great egret
Greater coucal
Greater flamingo
Greater spotted eagle
Green bee eater
Green sandpiper
Greenish warbler
Grey bush chat
Grey francolin
Grey heron
Grey headed canary flycatcher
House crow
House sparrow
House swift
Humes leaf warbler
Indian bush lark
Indian cormorant
Indian rea fowl
Indian pond heron
Indian robin
Indian roller
Indian silverbill
Indian spot billed duck
Indian spotted eagle
Intermediate eahle
Jungle babbler
Comb duck
Large grey babbler
Laughing dove
Lesser white throat
Lesser kestrel
Little cormorant
Little egret
Little grebe
Little stint
Marsh sandpiper
Long tailed shrike
Northern pintail
Northern shovelloer
Oriental magpie
Paddy field pipit
painted stork
pale martin
pheasant tailed jacana
pied bush chat
plain martin
purple heron
purple sunbird
red breasted fly catcher
red crested pochard
red napped ibis
red vented bulbul
red wattled lapwing
rose ringed parakeet
ruddy shelduck
ruff
rufous tree pie
shikra
short toed snake eagle
sind sparrow
small pratincole
spotted owlet
temmincks stinttufted duck
white wagtail
white breasted waterhen
white browed wag tailwhite tailed lap wing
white throated kingfisher
wood sand piper
yellow wagtail
yellow bellied prinia
the only thing about Dighal is that yu have to start early and it is a whole day trip—
cheers -- chandrima
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