Birding report of Anand Srinivasa, Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh, May-June 2010.

The following is the birding report of Shri Anand Srinivasa (bng birds) in the course of his visit to Himachal Pradesh. His photographs bear the tale of a glorious day. Many thanks to him for providing us the details of the trip. We wish him many more such wonderful days.

Location: Kinnaur (HP).

Click here for his report on Live Journal.

The report in Anand's own words...

This is the first time I was birding in north, almost every other bird we saw was a new one for me. One surprising thing was that we didn't see much raptors, spotted Himalayan Griffon 2 times and that is all in 12 days. Also we didn't visit any lakes so didn't see much water birds.
Another point we noted was that orange seemed to be most popular colour amount the birdies. Majority of birds had at least some bit of rufous/orange in them.

Bird list:
Great Barbet
Common Blackbird
Black Bulbul
Himalayan Bulbul
Rock Bunting
White Capped Bunting
Yellow Billed Chough
Eurasian Cuckoo
Oriental Turtle Dove
Black Drango
Little Pied Flycatcher
Vardite Flycatcher
Yellow Breasted Greenfinch
Common Hoopoe
Rufous Necked Laughingthrush
Streaked Laughingthrush
Yellow Billed Blue Magpie
Eurasian Golden Oriole
Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon
Black Redstart
Plumbeous Water Redstart
White Cap Water Redstart
Common Rosefinch
Long Tailed Shrike
Rufous Sibia
Russet Sparrow
Blue Capped Rock Thrush
Black Throated Tit
Green Backed Tit
Rufous Naped Tit
Rufous Vented Tit
Spot Winged Tit
Treecreeper
White Wagtail
Oriental Whiteeye
Himalayan Woodpecker
Himalayan Griffon

Till next time lets bird.....

The Yellow throated Bulbul (YTB)

The joy that his photo brings...In the little birding that I have done, I had heard discussions about the YTB, that it is spectacular, endangered and that there is a small population in Hampi. beyond that it did not really register to find out more. Until I saw this photo in an article in the Hindu by Marianne De Nazareth.

That is enough to get the fire going. I need to go find this guy. Will update when I find him. Wish me luck.

Black Kite

This photograph was one of my first attempts at birds. This is one of the resident pair, nesting opposite a friends office.

Report of Sunday Birdwalk at Okhla sanctuary, Delhi - 06 June 2010 - Indianbirds.

A typical summer birding at OBP with the last night's showers ensuring a pleasant and windy morning for over two dozen birders who turned up here this morning.

The stars of this season's birding - Black Bittern Yellow Bittern, Cinnamon Bittern and Watercock - showed up very well and a close flypast by a Black Bittern being the highlight of the day. The Watercock usually keeps it end May date for this site every year and we saw one that flushed out from nearby grasses as against four that we saw here last Sunday.We missed out on the Pied Cuckoo that's already been reported from here two weeks ago but numerous Golden Orioles here today were a delight. Also over half a dozen Blue-cheeked Bee-eaters, in the air and sitting on the reeds, with beautiful views obtained through the scope.

The other residents viz. breeding streaked Weavers, Straited Grassbird, Yellow-bellied Prinia, Lesser Whistling & Spot-billed Ducks, Plain Martins, few River Terns, Bronze-winged Jacana, Purple Swamphens, Yellow-eyed Babblers etc adding up to the day's birdcount that easily reaches c60 during a couple of hours birding here even in the hot summer months.
Good birding.

Kanwar B Singh