ICRISAT birding Joy

 

Finally ticked off one more place in my birding list-ICRISAT,Patancheru campus.This place is just 10kms from my apartment and roughly took just 20 min to reach in morning hour,traffic free hour

PS: Special Permission is required to get entry in ICRISAT campus.

 

ICRISAT campus is maintained in beautiful way,offers nature in its raw form,heaven for Nature lovers .As a part of birding weekend ,got to travel to campus with fellow birding group at apartment.There were numerous pond inside the lake,full of greenery and bushes all around.We were able to spot Peacock in every 10 minute of interval.

I feel my self to lucky to view some beautiful site  of Darter,Spot billed Pelicans and cormorants.

Here is Photo trail of trip……………….

Finally could catch pics of spot billed Pelican in Hyderabad which i missed at Ameenpur birding(Still need to pen down my second visit to Ameenpur)

 

Spot Billed Pelican

Pelican Family

Already experience of Pelican was astounding for me , Still place was full of different awe moments.

I have always trying to get one darter among cormorant,and my record is always a single darter in 30 plus cormorant.But this time my heart is filled with joy and my day was made to see around 20 plus darter including small juvenile in just growing and parents darter feeding young ones.

Cormorant Moment of the day

For me these were the moments of bird walk of that day,addition to this clicked few more species.

 

Green Bee Eater

Booted Warbler

Butterflies at ease

Common Moorhen

Grey Heron

Indian Courser

 

Indian Pond Heron

Indian Roller

Grebe and Juvenile

Paddyfield Pipit

Pied Starling

Whistling Ducks

Indian Peacock

Indian Peacock

Purple Heron

Purple Heron

Purple Moorhen and Baya on left side…Hanging nest of Baya.

Purple Moorhen

Spot Billed Duck

 

Here comes end to Photo trails of ICRISAT birding experience,place is great to relax and enjoy the Nature.

Cheers

Ashu

Jungle Lodges & Resorts BIDAR Birding

 

Life comes in full circle sometimes. Finally planned and went BIDAR my birth place after three decade(now one can guess my age;)) ,it was always in my list after relocating to Hyderabad. Although Bidar comes in Karnataka, could not travel even being in Bangalore for almost 10 years ,reason being more distance. The privilege of being armed force kid is travelling across INDIA,so in my case only eastern part was untouched otherwise travelled Srinagar,Agra,Jamnagar,Nagpur,Delhi and  journey continues to Dalhousie,Bangalore,Mysore,Hoggenakal,Wayanad,Munnar,Chennai,Pondicherry,Nainitaal, Jaamu, Ooty,Andaman Island,Hyderbad,Kuntala falls,Srisailam and the journey continues………

Of course the one reason to visit Bidar was being my birth place ,but not the only one,other reason was experiencing the JUNGLE LODGES RESORT(JLR) which I heard was great place from some friends. And now with my own experience I can satisfyingly say ,place is awesome for Nature lover,wind up life for a day or two into the lap of Nature. It was my anniversary which was occasion planned to celebrate at JLR on April 13^th,no doubts occasions gives you best reason to travel and celebrate.

My foremost priority to go to JLR was birding, and will confidently say place is paradise for birds. The JLR situated on opposite to Vilaspur lake ,luckily due to good rainfall lake was almost full, even in peak summer. I will admit I went to place in wrong season(can blame on timing of anniversary),still could spot lots of birds.

One suggestion for birders, we boarded in the cottage number 5Desert Wheatear(Cottages names were kept on different birds) which is on perfect spot to see birds on fig tree where I got to see lots of varieties in just 2 hourof reaching that place from my balcony, in case you have preference chose perfect cottage.

Here is Birding Checklist

This is great moment for me to click Asian Paradise flycatcher ,my dream from long time.I am really thankful to guide Siddappa from JLR to chase it for half an hour ,so that I can take one single shot.So mission accomplished!!And according to JLR guide data Asian flycatcher was seen only 12 times in 7 years,although  I saw it on both the days of birding.

Rest of clicks of the Day,most of which is clicked from my cottage balcony.

Common Iora

Coppersmith Barbet

Plum Headed Parakeet

Ashy Drongo

Asian Koel Female

Asian Koel Male With Catch

Asian Koel Male

Brahminy Starling

Bushchat Male

Cattle Egret

Common Iora

Mynah

Coppersmith Barbet really Hungry one

Cormorant

Drongo

Eursian Collared Dove

Coucal

Green Bee eater

Grey Heron

Grey Heron

Grey Hornbill

Hoopoe

Indian Courser

Indian Courser Pair

Indian Golden Oriole

Indian Peahen

Indian Robin Male

Indian Robin Female

Laughing Dove

Peahen and Peacock

National Bird

Display Moment

The place near water tank was all flooded with Sunbird in the afternoon to seep water from leaking tank and rope hanging there due to scorching summers…

Purple rumped Sunbird

Purple rumped Sunbird

Purple rumped Sunbird

Purple Sunbird

Red vented Bulbul

 

Red vented Bulbul in front of Moon

Red vented Pair

Red wattled Lapwing Incubating

indian rufous Treepie

Indian rufous treepie

Shikra in late evening

 

Tickell’s blue flycatcher

White breasted Kingfisher Pair

White breasted Kingfisher bright plumage

White brown Bulbul juvenile

White browned Bulbul

Wooly necked Stork Pair

Wooly necked Stork

Wooly necked Stork

Yellow eyed babbler

Yellow footed green pigeon

Yellow Wattled Lapwing

 

In terms of my birding journey I count this one as most rewarding and satisfying experience,I guess reason might be increased experience and patience which is key to success in birding.I will soon share more of  Bidar journey and nature clicks in my second part of blog.

Happy Birding

Cheers

Ashu