Third Sunday Outing-18th October 2009-Trip report by Ulhas P A

Here is the report of the Third Sunday Outing of October by Ulhas P A (http://wildcards.blogspot.com)


Place: Behind Ramakrishna Mission School (Google Map Link:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=12.722772,77.57206&num=1&t=h&sll=12.760743,77.624567&sspn=0.009397,0.019162&hl=en&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=&ll=12.72239,77.57199&spn=0.002794,0.003449&z=18)


Start Time: 8:15 AM
Date: 18th October, 2009
Weather: Clear & sunny, no clouds
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List of Birds*

1. Black Headed Cuckoo Shrike
2. Red Wattled Lapwing
3. Oriental White-eye
4. Red Vented Bulbul
5. Palm Swift
6. Ashy Wren Warbler
7. Copper Smith (calling)
8. Red Whiskered Bulbul
9. Laggar Falcon
10. Small Green Bee-eater
11. Hair Crested Drongo
12. Purple Sunbird
13. Jungle Crow
14. Pariah Kite
15. Loten's Sunbird
16. Tickell's Blue Flycatcher
17. Greenish Leaf Warbler
18. White Breasted Kingfisher (calling)
19. House Crow
20. Paradise Flycatcher (male, brown with long tail)
21. Magpie Robin
22. Small Green Barbet (calling)
23. Bright-green Leaf Warbler
24. Tailor Bird
25. Indian Shag
26. Little Cormorant
27. Collared Scops Owl
28. Jungle Wren Warbler
29. Gold Fronted Chloropsis (mimicking the call of a Shikra)
30. Short-toed Eagle

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List of Butterflies*

1. Common Rose
2. Crimson Rose
3. Common Leopard
4. Blue Mormon
5. Unid. Bush Brown
6. Dark Blue Tiger
7. Common Crow
8. Unid. Dart
9. Two Spot Grass Yellow
10. Three Spot Grass Yellow
11. Common Gull
12. Double Branded Black Crow
13. Psyche
14. Common Sailer
15. African Babul Blue
16. Small Grass Yellow
17. Emigrant
18. Striped Tiger
19. Tailed Jay
20. Tawny Coster
21. Glassy Blue Tiger
22. Common Mormon
23. Common Lime
24. Spotless Grass Yellow
25. Common Castor
26. Common Wanderer
27. White Orange Tip
28. Plain Tiger

After the group birding, we headed out to Jigani Tank for old time's sake :)

Place: Jigani Tank (Google Map Link: http://bit.ly/ 2Y6jL1)
Start Time: 12:35 PM
Date: 18th October, 2009
Weather: Sunny, with sparse tufts of cumulus

Here's the list.

1. Black-bellied Tern
2. Red wattled Lapwing
3. Coot
4. River Tern
5. Darter
6. Dabchick
7. Large Egret
8. Median Egret


Also link to Gowrishankar's photos


http://picasaweb.google.com/shankarsg77/BirdingShivanahalliOct09?authkey=Gv1sRgCKmdtsPqwd_PowE