Bird Sunday Report (16-05-2010) of Bangalore Birds

This is the report of Bird Sunday (16-05-2010) of Bangalore Birds. Many thanks to Mr. Anand Srinivasa of Bangalore Birds for providing the report.

Many thanks are due to Mr J M Garg for having permitted his photographs of about 400 species and his other works available on wiki to be used on this blog. The following is the link to his work on wiki.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg

Sir, if you are reading this hats of to you.

Report:

We went around the trails near Ramakrishna Mission School in Shivanahalli. Breakfast was at the ashram. Later few of us visited the lake near Ragihalli and also spent some time birding on the way back till Bannerghatta Road.

The best sighting of the visit was Red Rumped Swallows.


Image courtesy of Mr J.M.Garg.

Surprisingly they were quite bold. They were lot of them, and would come down and perch just 2 or 3 feet from us in a water puddle. This was near Ragihalli Lake. We also saw lot of butterflies.

Following is the bird list.

White cheeked Barbet
Coppersmith Barbet
Green Bee-eater
Yellow Throated Bulbul
Red Whiskered Bulbul
Red vented Bulbul
Common Babbler
Pied Bush Chat
Little Cormorant
Greater Coucal (Call Heard)
Pied Cuckoo
Spotted Dove (Group of six)
Black Drango
Cattle Egret (Breeding Plumage)
Tickell's Blue Flycatcher
Pond Heron
Asian Koel
Red wattled Lapwing
Ashy Prinia
Indian Robin
Oriental Magpie Robin
Purple Rumped Sunbird
Red Rumped Swallow
Oriental White-eye

Till next time, lets bird......