Hello People,
Apologies for posting the trip report a lil late. I had taken a day off from work and wanted to go out for some Bird Watching. The previous Day ( Second sunday of April ) , I met Karthik and he suggested me that I could try Ranganthittu which is about 130 kms from Bangalore, off Srirangapattana on well developed Bangalore-Mysore Highway.
I left Early in the morning and managed to reach Ranganthittu by 7.30 Am. We were at the right place on right time. I was amazed to see so much of Bird Life around. As it was a weekday, there were hardly any visitors. Me and my cousin were the Only guests there and the forest department people were really happy to welcome us !
Without wasting much of time, we hired a boat and a very experienced forest guard Venkatesh came along with us for a good 1.30 hr boat ride ! We got to know it was OBS ( Open Billed storks ) nesting season, and we could see a lot of OBS nests and chicks.. As per the policies, I dont want to share the photographs of the chicks though they were amazing to watch !
It was my first Bird watching trip after the Naturalist training camp and we could spot about 31 species in a lil over 2 1/2 hrs and the first one to be spotted was the Tickles Blue Fly Catcher. I remember me and Donkey Deepak had a good sighting of this bird in Gol Ghar ( Bannerghatta JLR Campus )
P S --> Please dont go there on public holidays and sunday's. Fair chance of spotting birds around the sanctuary but we wont get seperate boats to carefully observe water Birds.
The Photographs of this trip can be viewed here --> http://picasaweb.google.com/kj.avinash/Recent
List of Birds Spotted in Ranganthittu
Jungle Myna
Common Crow
Tickles Blue FlyCatcher
Pond Heron
Painted Stork
OBS ( Open Billed Storks )
River Terns ( there were only two of em )
Night Heron
Stone Plover
Small Egret
Cattle Egret
Large Egret
Purple Rumped Sunbird
Brahminy Kite
Little Cormorant
Fruit bat ( Not a Bird though :-) )
White Breasted KingFisher
Oriental magpie Robin
Forest Wagtail
Darter
Eurasian SpoonBill
Red Whiskered Bulbul
Asian Koel Small
Blue KingFisher
Grey Wagtail
Indian Peafowl
Common Kite
Purple SunBird
Field Guides
100 birds of Bannerghatta
Birds of Ranganthittu ( can be purchased there for 10/- )
Book of Indian Birds 13th Edition by Dr.Salim Ali ( Learning to use this )
Happy Birding ,
Avi
2 comments:
"As per the policies, I dont want to share the photographs of the chicks " - Could you please elaborate on these policies.....
Nesting Photographs are to be prohibited for good reasons.. Thats what I meant :-)
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