Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Birding at JLR-NTP, Bannerghatta

Here are some shots of a few birds we spotted at JLR Bannerghatta Nature Camp during our NTP. The shots are few in number and average in quality - as the emphasis was more on learning the process of birding rather than shooting them well.
Blue bearded Bee eater

Coppersmith Barbet, just outside the tent
White cheeked Barbet, whose loud call we woke up to in the mornings
Rose ringed Parakeet (female)
Spotted Dove, early in the morning
Laughing Dove
Brown Fish Owl
Eurasian Eagle Owl, which we almost missed the firs day but spotted the next day
Little Egret, showing off clearly, black legs and yellowish feet (lesson learnt in the previous class)
Golden Fronted Leaf bird (Chloropsis)
Here's the entire list of birds spotted during the course:
1. White Cheeked Barbet
2. Coppersmith Barbet
3. Little Cormorant
4. Great Cormorant
5. Red Wattled Lapwing
6. Black Crowned Night Heron
7. White Browed Wagtail
8. Blue capped Rock Thrush
9. Black Drongo
10. White Bellied Drongo
11. Ashy Drongo
12. Black Naped Oriole
13. Red Whiskered Bulbul
14. Red Vented Bulbul
15. White Browed Bulbul
16. Golden Fronted Leaf Bird
17. Great Tit
18. Rufous Treepie
19. Blue bearded Bee eater
20. Scaly Breasted Munia
21. Black headed Cuckoo Shrike
22. Indian Robin
23. Brown Fish Owl
24. Eurasian Eagle Owl
25. Small Green billed Malkoha
26. Gray Jungle fowl
27. White Browed Fantail
28. Grey Heron
29. Oriental Honey Buzzard
30. Green Leaf Warbler
31. Asian Paradise Flycatcher
32. Small Minivet
33. Stork Billed Kingfisher
34. White Throated Kingfisher
35. Common Kingfisher
36. Common Iora
37. Asian Brown Flycatcher
38. Plum headed Parakeet
39. Rose Ringed parakeet
40. Jungle Babler
41. Tickell’s blue flycatcher
42. Purple rumped Sunbird
43. Purple Sunbird
44. Black redstart
45. Chestnut Tailed Starling
46. Large Billed Crow
47. Spotted Dove
48. Laughing Dove
49. Oriental Magpie Robin
50. Little Egret
51. Black Naped Monarch Flycather
52. Black Kite
53. Brahminy Kite
54. Asian Koel
55. River Tern
56. Greater Coucal
57. Shikra

It was a great beginning to 'stream-lined' birding at JLR-NTP conducted by a wonderful teacher and a knowledge bank - Karthik (S.Karthikeyan), Chief naturalist of JLR. Though we have been doing birding from a few months, in this session we learnt to emphasize on a systematic process to follow while birding, which is very necessary, especially as beginners. I still remember our initial days when we used to spot a 'new' bird and google to find out what it was, or call up pur friend Chandu, giving him crude description about what we saw! We have come a long way from there, but then there is a much longer way to go....

4 comments:

  1. You guys are right! It's just the beginning! Way to go!

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  2. Lovely account and pics! Hope to meet you on more birding trips soon!

    Cheers, Deepa.

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  3. Thanks a lot for the share.. We indeed had a good time there :) Do you have a pic of the Malkoha we saw? If so, please do post it..

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  4. Thanks Chandu, Deepa.. Yes need to plan another one soon...

    @Shwetha: Thanks..I haven't shot Malkoha there..:(

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