Me, Abhijit and Rohit decided to visit Karnala on Monday morning on 21st May.
As we entered we started hearing puff throated babbler and bronzed drongo.
We started walking on the main road leading to the guest house and came accross golden fronted chloropsis, black hooded oriole, oriental magpie robin.
As we reached the guest house we saw 2 bronzed drongos flying around.
And just then above the open area in front of the guest house were 10-15 pompodour green pigeons waiting for the sun to come up.
We went a little farther to get a good view from the side.
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| Pompodour Green Pigeon |
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| Pompodour Green Pigeon |
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| Pompodour Green Pigeon |
Just as we were observing the pompodour green pigeons we saw a pair of large cuckoo shrike.
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| Large Cuckooshrike |
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| Large Cuckooshrike |
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| Large Cuckooshrike |
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| Large Cuckooshrike |
As we started down the mortaka trail a common iora and a flock of brown cheecked fulvettas were dancing around on the side.
Moving ahead saw the Yellow Footed Green pigeons.
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| Yellow Footed Green Pigeon |
As we reached the open dry grassland we heard the Indian Pitta calling from the forest on the left.
We tried to find for almost 10-15 min but could not spot it in the thick vegetation. Finally then it flew and went deep inside the forest giving us just a flight glimpse.
As usual there were lot of chestnut shouldered petronias feeding on the ground every where. We also saw chloropsis, brown headed barbet and a racket tailed drongo.
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| Chestnut Shouldered Petronia |
At the dry stream we saw 2 woodpeckers yellow crowned woodpecker and pygmy woodpecker.
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| Yellow Crowned Woodpecker |
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| Pygmy Woodpecker |
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| Pygmy Woodpecker |
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| Pygmy Woodpecker |
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| Pygmy Woodpecker |
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| Pygmy Woodpecker |
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| Garden Lizard |
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| Garden Lizard |
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| Garden Lizard |
Just after the bridge on the Hariyal trail we came across another flock of brown cheecked fulvetta which were very vocal.
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| Brown Cheeked Fulvetta |
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| Brown Cheeked Fulvetta |
A just a little ahead saw a flash of red with a call of sunbird and immediately saw the beautiful Crimson Sunbird.
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| Crimson Sunbird |
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| Crimson Sunbird |
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| Forest Calotes |
