Bengal Birds

Friends,



This sunday i made a wonderful trip at Nalban and surrounding
bheri....i started my birding at around 6.15 in the morning. I take
the route from left side of the jheel horizontal to the SDF building
opposite face....At the entry one can find a banabibi temple....there
i find 4 types of kingfisher - stork billed , common , white throated
and pied. One pied kingfisher was circling in the sky and i find it
near the temple. Moving forward - i spot two grey herons among the
floating gadwals. Mainly gadwals and pintails i was able to find in
the water. Opposite the jheel - i find long tailed shrike in good
number (12 - 15 ) and the striated grassbird (5 - 6) ...... white
wagtails are missing - only 2 / 3 yellow wagtails i find.



Here is the complete list of birds i find :



1) Grey heron


2) Northern pintail


3) Gadwals


4) Long tailed shrike


5) Brown shrike


6) Striated grassbird


7) Clamorous reed warbler


8) Small blue kingfisher


9) Pied kingfisher


10) Stork billed kingfisher


11) White throated kingfisher


12) Yellow wagtail


13) Barn swallow


14) Large billed crow


15) Little Egret


16) Common sandpiper


17) Coppersmith barbet


18) Black hooded oriole


19) Yellow bittern


20) Little cormorant


21) Plain prinia


22) Spotted dove




Well, i find march month is always good for birding at Nalban bheri -
plenty of birding oppurtunities here and there.



Thanks,



Amit