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
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