Talawe is a regularly visited birding spotted by me but this time the difference was that we tried to explore it in the afternoon.
Being a cloudy day we decided to start as early as 3pm to start birding.
In other seasons it would be difficult to start birding so early due to harsh sun felt in the open grassland of Talawe.
It started with around 20-30 house sparrows right on the path.
Then the usual ashy and plain prinia calls started with a plain prinia seen carrying a grassblade indicating that some were starting to nest while a month back also we had seen lot of prinia activities with nesting material.
There were the pied startlings, redshanks (4-5) , greenshanks(4-5), common sandpiper, caspian terns, gull billed terns, cormorant and brahminy kite flying around the water bodies.
The flowering and butterfly activity has started picking pace.
There were lot of silver cox combs, sesbania and another type of shrub with big white flower along the water front.
We saw common grass yellow, peecock pansy and dragon flies.
On the small plateau there were lot of small purple flowers with their buds dripping with purple colored water.
Little ahead were scaly breasted munia.
They were feeding on the seeds of a grass within the silver cox comb.
Saw a flock of 10-15 black headed munias flying past and a flew baya weavers.
Not many red munias this time.
As were about to call it a day and return back we heard a sharp call from the other end of the plateau and we saw a pied crested cuckoo. This was a surprise.
Going ahead was a bigger surprise with a pair of common babblers.
This was the first time I think common babbler is being reported from Talawe.
There was also yellow eyed babbler, common kingfisher and also saw a flying glimpse of a painted snipe female.
As also experienced Talawe has always something new to offer!!
To have a look at more photos please see visit my album
Some landscape pics taken with my HTC phone!!
Being a cloudy day we decided to start as early as 3pm to start birding.
In other seasons it would be difficult to start birding so early due to harsh sun felt in the open grassland of Talawe.
It started with around 20-30 house sparrows right on the path.
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| House Sparrow |
Then the usual ashy and plain prinia calls started with a plain prinia seen carrying a grassblade indicating that some were starting to nest while a month back also we had seen lot of prinia activities with nesting material.
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| Plain Prinia |
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| Plain Prinia |
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| Plain Prinia |
There were the pied startlings, redshanks (4-5) , greenshanks(4-5), common sandpiper, caspian terns, gull billed terns, cormorant and brahminy kite flying around the water bodies.
The flowering and butterfly activity has started picking pace.
There were lot of silver cox combs, sesbania and another type of shrub with big white flower along the water front.
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| Silver Cox Comb |
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| Terda |
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| Sesbania |
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| Ran Til |
We saw common grass yellow, peecock pansy and dragon flies.
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| Dragon Fly |
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| Common Grass Yellow |
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| Dragon Fly |
On the small plateau there were lot of small purple flowers with their buds dripping with purple colored water.
Little ahead were scaly breasted munia.
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| Scaly Breasted Munia |
They were feeding on the seeds of a grass within the silver cox comb.
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| Scaly Breasted Munia |
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| Scaly Breasted Munia |
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| Scaly Breasted Munia |
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| Scaly Breasted Munia |
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| Scaly Breasted Munia |
Saw a flock of 10-15 black headed munias flying past and a flew baya weavers.
Not many red munias this time.
As were about to call it a day and return back we heard a sharp call from the other end of the plateau and we saw a pied crested cuckoo. This was a surprise.
Going ahead was a bigger surprise with a pair of common babblers.
This was the first time I think common babbler is being reported from Talawe.
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| Common Babbler |
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| Common Babbler |
There was also yellow eyed babbler, common kingfisher and also saw a flying glimpse of a painted snipe female.
As also experienced Talawe has always something new to offer!!
To have a look at more photos please see visit my album
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| 2012-08-15-Talawe |
1 comment:
nice pix alok...pl do let me know whenever you are visiting talawe.would like to join
thanks
subbu
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