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Barn Swallow - Adult male

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:16:06 +0530

Barn Swallow - Adult male29 viewsDec 18, 2009

Bar-headed Goose - With NU Band

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:57:06 +0530

Bar-headed Goose - With NU Band25 viewsDec 17, 2009

Bar-headed Goose - Flock with banded Goose

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:53:13 +0530

Bar-headed Goose - Flock with banded Goose20 viewsDec 17, 2009

Sulphur-bellied Warbler - Adult

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:49:04 +0530

Sulphur-bellied Warbler - Adult20 viewsDec 17, 2009

Common Rosefinch - Adult male

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:46:06 +0530

Common Rosefinch - Adult male22 viewsDec 17, 2009

Black-tailed Godwit - Adult non breeding

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:12:31 +0530

An unusual sighting for November in Nagpur Black-tailed Godwit - Adult non breeding 40 viewsAn unusual sighting for November in Nagpur Dec 08, 2009

Great Crested Grebe - Adult male

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:10:35 +0530

Great Crested Grebe - Adult male51 viewsDec 08, 2009

Satpuda Botanical Garden and Telandkhedi Lake - 53 birds seen

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:00 +0530

Trip alongwith 14 birders of Nagpur including Tarique Sani, Swati Sani, Rohan and Rohit Chakravarty, Tarun Balpande,Kids Asim and Vedant and others.

Red-vented Bulbul - Family

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:58:59 +0530

Red-vented Bulbul - Family68 viewsAug 18, 2009

Grey-bellied Cuckoo - Hepatic female

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:11:15 +0530

Grey-bellied Cuckoo - Hepatic female48 viewsAug 04, 2009

Grey-bellied Cuckoo - Hepatic female

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:10:52 +0530

Grey-bellied Cuckoo - Hepatic female41 viewsAug 04, 2009

Indian Courser - Adult

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:08:57 +0530

Indian Courser - Adult39 viewsAug 04, 2009

Indian Courser - Adult

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:08:36 +0530

Indian Courser - Adult28 viewsAug 04, 2009

Bank Myna - Adult

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:06:54 +0530

Bank Myna - Adult29 viewsAug 04, 2009

Pied (Pied Crested, Jacobin) Cuckoo

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:04:10 +0530

Pied (Pied Crested, Jacobin) Cuckoo39 viewsAug 04, 2009

Black-headed Munia

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:02:17 +0530

Black-headed Munia54 viewsAug 04, 2009

Black-naped Monarch (Flycatcher)

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:01:25 +0530

Black-naped Monarch (Flycatcher)67 viewsAug 04, 2009

Oriental (Eastern) Skylark - Adult

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:49:58 +0530

Oriental (Eastern) Skylark - Adult48 viewsAug 04, 2009

Oriental (Eastern) Skylark - Adult

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:46:50 +0530

Oriental (Eastern) Skylark - Adult28 viewsAug 04, 2009

Oriental (Eastern) Skylark - Adult

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:46:32 +0530

Oriental (Eastern) Skylark - Adult33 viewsAug 04, 2009

Oriental (Eastern) Skylark - Adult

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:46:13 +0530

Oriental (Eastern) Skylark - Adult26 viewsAug 04, 2009

Matkazari Lake - 42 birds seen

Sun, 2 Aug 2009 01:00 +0530

This trip report is about the census of Great Indian Bustard. I toured with friend Netaji Chinchulakr along a route Pardi,Bhandewadi,Tarodi, Khedi' Dighori,Temasna, Kusumbi, Pandharkawda village and Umbargaon. Important sightings were Southern Grey Shrike, Barn Swallows and Pied Cuckoos.

Sonegaon - 32 birds seen

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 07:00 +0530

Pied Cuckoo was important sighting.

Ambazari Lake and Garden - 16 birds seen

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 10:00 +0530

Trip report of visit to Heronry at Empress Mill and Shukravari talao with Ajitya Joshi and Dr. Upadhyay and his daughter.
Sighting nests of Night Herons, Pond Herons, Little Egret (probable), Little Cormorant, Indian Cormorant. Many Little terns. Sighted one Grey Heron (nesting?).

Ambazari Lake and Garden - 44 birds seen

Tue, 9 Jun 2009 18:00 +0530

Saw an India Pitta and 3 Ruddy-breasted Crakes. Visit with Aditya Joshi.

Wena Lake - 42 birds seen

Wed, 27 May 2009 13:30 +0530

I saw 3 unidentified Gulls. I am putting them as Black-headed Gulls. Nests of Kentish Plovers, Black-winged Stilts (and 10 chicks), Painted Snipe, Small Pratincoles, Red-wattled Lapwings were seen. Sighting of two Indian Coursers.

Gorewada Lake and Forest - 43 birds seen

Sun, 24 May 2009 08:00 +0530

This is trip report of the birdwatchers visit to Kanhan river, Kamptee cantonment. Saw nesting colony of Blue-tailed Bee-eaters and got two dead Spotted Owlets. And a nest of Purple Sunbird. Best thing was the gathering of birdser who came in three cars and did the birding.

Paradgaon Lake - 69 birds seen

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:00 +0530

First time lucky at Paradgaon, all thanks to Mr.Tarun Balpande. Highlights were 3 Little Terns, Sirkeer Malkohas on 2 occassions and an active nest of a Yellow-crowned Woodpecker. Bar-headed Geese were spotted, which preferred staying too far away from us. No migratory waders were seen. But was rather happy to see 3 Openbills, after a long time. They nearly seem to have vanished from the city! 'Question'marked' sightings include a Crested Bunting and Zitting Cisticolas which made very brief entries, only enough to make their presence felt! :)

Paradgaon Lake - 72 birds seen

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 07:30 +0530

highlights- upto 300 bar-headed geese, a flock of upto 180 great cormorants, 2 eurasian sparrowhawks, 4 blackbucks.

Satpuda Botanical Garden and Telandkhedi Lake - 83 birds seen

Sun, 9 Nov 2008 06:45 +0530

Myself, Tarique Sani accompanied by Tarun Balpande. The migrants are definitely less in numbers - though most of the species can be seen. We reached the backwaters of Telankhedi this time

Ambazari Lake and Garden - 120 birds seen

Sun, 2 Nov 2008 09:30 +0530

This was one of my highest species count trip and also a very short one. Even though the species count was high the sheer number of birds was less.

Lot of fishing activity and the number of migrants are less - Unfortunately very few photographs :(

Zilpi Forest - 54 birds seen

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:00 +0530

We had decided to go to Wena lake from Nimji side so see the migrants which were expected to be seen around this time of the year.

Rohan arrived with Azhar at our place in Wadi and we were soon joined by Jaimesh Thapar and his daughter Ananya. Myself, Rohan and Azhar left for Wena a bit ahead to scout for interesting things....

To our dismay Wena lake was almost barren - yes, the commoners were there but no ducks except for a few Cotton Teals and Gargneys - We did see an Eurasian Sparrow hawk flying by .

At Wena lake we were joined by Dr. Sudhansu Kothe - On Rohan's suggestion we decided to move to Zilpi to see the spot where had spotted the Amur Falcon. Along the way we caught up with Adv Anand Jaiswal and Radhika

The place is near Zilpi lake a bit secluded from the road but a haven for Raptors....

As we walked in Aasim spotted a Crested serpent eagle. The place had plenty of birds but we Nagpurians are spoilt I would say - we did not sight anything unusual - A lazy list for the day was as follows

Zilpi Forest - 41 birds seen

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:15 +0530

the star of the trip was a gorgeous adult female amur falcon. other highlights were a male pallid harrier (which i was unable to photograph), a nilgai and chinkaras.

Ambazari Lake and Garden - 63 birds seen

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:30 +0530

saw 6 gulls flying towards amravati road, which i failed to photgraph/identify.others include a few duck arrivals and other migrants

Telgoan or Salai Menda Lake - 86 birds seen

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 07:00 +0530

We (Tarun Balpande, Milind Gaikwad, Tarique Sani, Swati Sani and Aasim Sani) went to Salai menda lake - the first visit of this winter season. To our dismay the amount of water was very little as the dam is still not repaired - however the birds did not disappoint us. The highlight was me able to get pictures of Alexandrine Parakeets and Thick Billed flowerpecker

Hazaripahad - 52 birds seen

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 07:30 +0530

went to hazaripahad in search of the montagu's harrier, but could not phtograph it inspite of sighting it, 'courtesy'- black drongos :( other highlights were a tickell's leaf warbler, a short-toed snake eagle, lots of common kestrels and a blue rock thrush.

Koradi Lake - 78 birds seen

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 08:00 +0530

Went with Swati to take a look at Koradi Lake - there was too much human activity and fishing going on and the number of birds were significantly less. However the migrants have started arriving. Got some good pictures of the Bank Myna and also a very good picture of Juvenile Rosy Starling - something which can be confusing for new bird watchers.

Ambazari Lake and Garden - 44 birds seen

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:00 +0530

couldnt spot a good number of species as the weather was damp, but the highlights of the trip were a black bittern (a species i am seeing for the first time in nagpur) and a small pratincole.

Ambazari Lake and Garden - 61 birds seen

Sun, 11 May 2008 07:00 +0530

Telgoan or Salai Menda Lake - 55 birds seen

Thu, 1 May 2008 06:00 +0530

Team: M.S.R. Shad, Tarique Sani, Swati Sani and Aasim Sani