October 20th, Sunday 730 am
Patch birding on an empty plot that has water puddles and scrub overgrowth. Overnight rains. Now sunny. This is an empty shrub-filled plot, off the main beach road at Thiruvanmyur.
3 Red-wattled Lapwing
1 Eurasian Hoopoe
1 Common Kingfisher (Small Blue Kingfisher) - what a nice surprise. Sat on the wall next to the G Square developed plot.
1 White-throated Kingfisher
4 Blue-tailed Bee-eater
1 Coppersmith Barbet
2 Rose-ringed Parakeet
2 Black Drongo
1 Brown Shrike (Brown) - just shows the difference between incidental birding and binocular birding. I saw this because I had a pair of binoculars with me.
7 House Crow
2 Large-billed Crow (Indian Jungle)
4 Common Tailorbird
1 Ashy Prinia
4 Barn Swallow
1 White-browed Bulbul
4 Common Myna
5 Purple-rumped Sunbird
1 White-browed Wagtail (Large Pied Wagtail) - Now I was delighted to see a pair of them later on the beach, foraging around the temporary lake/river that has been created from the stormwater drains that are emerging on the beach. They hopped and flew all around the periphery, chittering to each other as they went.
Number of Taxa: 18
1 Eurasian Hoopoe
1 Common Kingfisher (Small Blue Kingfisher) - what a nice surprise. Sat on the wall next to the G Square developed plot.
1 White-throated Kingfisher
4 Blue-tailed Bee-eater
1 Coppersmith Barbet
2 Rose-ringed Parakeet
2 Black Drongo
1 Brown Shrike (Brown) - just shows the difference between incidental birding and binocular birding. I saw this because I had a pair of binoculars with me.
7 House Crow
2 Large-billed Crow (Indian Jungle)
4 Common Tailorbird
1 Ashy Prinia
4 Barn Swallow
1 White-browed Bulbul
4 Common Myna
5 Purple-rumped Sunbird
1 White-browed Wagtail (Large Pied Wagtail) - Now I was delighted to see a pair of them later on the beach, foraging around the temporary lake/river that has been created from the stormwater drains that are emerging on the beach. They hopped and flew all around the periphery, chittering to each other as they went.
Number of Taxa: 18
The wildfowers in the thickets are here. I also saw some dead marine creatures, which was not nice at all.
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| The patch where I saw all these birds. |
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| I love wandering in these thickets, you never know what you will find. Today was a butterfly day. |
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| The cricket match had driven the birds away, I guess. My Valmiki Nagar thicket ebird list here. Blue-tailed bee eaters were doing their aerial dives and a lone black Kite flew over the water's edge. |
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| The waves fizzed back and forth, but the sand had these green algal residues, perhaps the phytoplanktons causing the bioluminescence these last few nights? |
How lovely - the beach and the clouds and the sky above and how not so lovely is what left on the ground, mixed feeling about dolphin, kind of sad abt its state and adding to it is the fact that you didnt tell me :( abt it.
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