Birds of Agara

When I was in Bengaluru for SAP training back in March 2015. It was known that Bengaluru have many lakes, but as per what I have read in newspapers all of them are polluted. Due to the above I never tried to check out the lakes in Bengaluru. However, one find day when I travelling to "Banerghatta" I happend to see this lake at Agara and found some ducks in the lake. I decided to check out this lake on next day. It was pretty surprising that this lake was very clean and well maintained. I keep visiting this lake whenever time permits. Following is the list of image captured at this lake since March 2015.


Bronze Winged Jacana

Lesser Wistling Ducks



Little Grebbe



Common Coot



Pond Heron



Lesser Cormorant
 

Spot Billed Duck
 

Gargney
 

Brahminy Kite
 

Oriental Darter/Snake Bird
 

Marsh Harrier
 

Purple Heron
 

Purple Swamp hen
 

Greater Egret
 

Black Kite
 

Common Crow
 

Ashy Prinia
 

Peasant Tailed Jacana
 

Unidentified Warbler
 

Butterflies



Mongoose

Checkered Keelback
 

Jamnagar - The Birders Paradise

This was the last trip while I was in Vadodara. Whitout this trip my stay in Vadodara would have been incomplete.

Absolutly amazing place and a must visit for the birders specially for the shorebirds. Crab Plover and Pied Avocet were in list of must click birds since a while. I was lucky enough to get good clear shots.

Following are the spotting from the trip.

Black tailed Godwit
 

Common Pochard female
 

Common Pochard Male



Common Redshank
 

Crab Plover
 

Dunlin
   

Greater Sand Plover
   

Grey Heron in flight
 

Lesser Sand Plover in flight
 

Lesser Sand Plover
   

Little Stint
 

Mallard Male
   

Northern Shoveler Male
   

Northern Shoveler Male in flight
 

Northern Shoveler Female in flight
 

Pied Avocet
 

Pied Avocet about to land
 

Rudy Turnstone
 

Slender Billed Gull
 

Spot Billed Duck
 

Tufted Duck Female
 

Need ID (Type of Pipit)
 

Western Reef Heron in white morph
 

Wimbrel
 

Need ID for this Crab
 

Landscapes and Waterscapes

Trip to LRK - Little Rann of Kutch

LRK was one of the last trips while I was in Vadodara. This trip was also long pending. It was a road trip with 3 other friends.

We left Vadodara at around 3 AM and reached LRK by around 7:30AM after getting the permit and tickets, we started off with morning safari.

Following are the spotting from the morning safari:

Kentish Plover


Common Kestrel Male



MacQueen Bustered



Shrike (need to confirm ID)



Skys' Lark



Wild Ass



Desert Wheatear



Northern Shoveler Male



Terek Sandpiper



River Tern



Pallas's Gull



Skyes's Nightjar



Chestnut bellied Sandgrouse



Short eared Owl





Montagu Harrier Female



Montangu Harrier male



Montangu Harrier Female



Marsh Harrier



Overall it wasn't a very good trip considering number of species that we got to spot. We expected to spot wide range of eagles, falcons(spotted Marlin but couldn't get to shoot) and owls. We did spot some flamingos (both lesser and greater) but they were very far off the shore.