It was a very exciting Third Sunday Nature Trail for many of the 33 nature lovers when they spotted the Red Necked Falcon at Nandanavana Layout.
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| Photo by Arun Ramu |
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| Photo by Arun Ramu |
Two budding naturalists made their impact too. Venkat Holla's lovely kids enthusiastically spotted many a insects and other small creatures. Hope to see them again.
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| A scorpion like creature managed to attract everyone's attention when a young member of the group spotted it. Sudhir has id.d it as Whip Scorpion Here are two of his photo links http://www.flickr.com/photos/sudhirnaik/4898387602/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/sudhirnaik/4897885262/ |
Thanks to Mahesh ( mahesh81chand@yahoo.com) for locating this place, and hope to extend the trail a bit longer in future ,as I am sure, we will have many more gems out there.
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| Indian Silver Bills Here is the list of all that was seen..again thanks to Anand (anand.srinivasa@gmail.com) for promptly compiling the list. |
- Chestnut Headed Bee-eater
- Green Bee-eater
- Red-necked Falcon
- Oriental Honey Buzzard
- Black Kite
- Rufous-tailed Lark
- Baya Weaver
- Scaly-breasted Munia
- Black-headed Munia
- Indian Silverbill
- White-browed Bulbul
- Red-whiskered Bulbul
- Red-vented Bulbul
- Red-rumped Swallow
- Grey Francolin
- Oriental White-eye
- Great Tit
- Purple Rumped Sunbird
- Little Cormorant
- Indian Robin
- Greater Coucal
- White-breasted Kingfisher
- White-browed Wagtail
- Plain Prinia
- Ashy Prinia
- Black Drongo
- Blue-faced Malkoha (Doubtful)
- Rose-ringed Parakeet
- Red-wattled Lapwing
- Laughing Dove
- Spotted Dove
- Hare
- Whip Scorpion
Sarthak Singhal's photo link can be found here.
Two of my pics::
ReplyDeletehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/sudhirnaik/4898387602/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sudhirnaik/4897885262/
Thank you ma'am for the help in bird namings. For commenters here, I have placed my photo set at http://bit.ly/NandavanaLayout
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