Team - Niranjan n Prashanth.
Date - 29-Apr-07
The idea of bird watching in Davangere started with a invitation to my friend Naveen's wedding. A mail to JLRNTP-1 yahoogroups got a surprised reply from Karthik who started his birding hobby in Davangere. Karthik suggested two places one was Bathi kere (lake) and the other Kondajji and we chose the later. Sunday morning started of from Davangere and drove along to kondajji, on the way we saw plenty of Pond Heron's, Bulbul's, White breasted Kingfisher and Black shouldered Kite. We reached Kondajji @ 7:00 and were pleasently surprised by the amount of bird life there. For a beginner like me it was like "Birds, birds everywhere but not a clue to identify". Feathered friends here are much more shy than our Bangalore counterparts. Hence it became tough to identify many of them as they flew away even when we were at wuite a distance. We could not even make a note of the details. This place is truly a birder's paradise and many thanks to Karthik for sharing this place.
The check list is as given below and the pics are here >>
White breasted king fisher
Jungle babbler
Cattle egret
Bank Myna
Spotted dove
Pond heron
Peacock (male & female)
Little cormorant
Plover
Red vented bulbul
Red rumped swallow
Parakeet
Sunbird
Koel
Black shouldered kite
Indian robin
White browed wagtail
Paradise flycatcher
Pied king fisher
Ducks (no idea which one)
Grey heron
Common IORA (male)
Coucal
Hoopoe
Long tailed cuckoo shirke
Racket tailed drongo - Needs Verification.
Bramhini kite
Oriental magpie
Black headed Myna
Indian Treepie
4 comments:
Hey thanks for the report.. I dont think this place is known to many of us here. Next time, when driving on this road, Ill stop by for sure.
Good going. Keep it up.
Thanks......
yeah good work done dude...
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