A resident bird of the jungles and forests at higher altitude found in our neighbouring state. They were sighted in good numbers in the forest areas and unlike their common cousins, the common Myna, these birds are relatively quiet and mostly minding their own business.

During that time when we visited the area, they were busy tending to their chicks since it was the peak nesting season. The nests were inside tree burrows - which we could see - but we could not see the chicks. The birds were quite wary as the area had lots of predators. We sighted several Malabar Pied Hornbills, Rufous Bellied Eagles, Hobby, Falcons etc... The Mynas were landing on multiple perches before going on to their nests so as to deter the predators.

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One of the more uncommon Mynas that is found in woody, forest areas and not found in my resident state. This one is a lifer for me and we sighted plenty in the large forest area we visited.

The birds are social in nature and often found in numbers of 2 and more. The behavior is similar to Common Myna, but these birds are less vocal and noisy than its common cousin. We sighted them trying to build nests and carrying nesting materials I suppose. They had small pieces of leaves / twigs in their beaks.

This was part of the 3 day birding trip to a remote forest area that is very vast, but lacked wild animals. There is no mobile network in the entire region which was a blessing in many ways. The heat was scorching, but the place was amazing and I had around 25 lifers few of which are incredibly rare. Unfortunately, the place was incredibly tough for photograph and managed to get few decent shots. But nevertheless, I was absolutely delighted at seeing so many new amazing birds.

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A lifer and an uncommon bird found in the forests of South India in a very narrow range. The bird seems to be quite common across South East Asia though.

They are mostly found around Banana trees in the forests where they are sighted darting off on the top and under looking for spiders. We had to just wait near this Banana flower and it was sighted several times there. The bird - a bit bigger than the common sunbird was quite agile and it was hard to keep up with it in the canopy and bush!

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One of 5 varieties of minivets in the forest we visited and a lifer!. Not the rarest, but definitely quite an uncommon one. It looks similar to the common Scarlet Minivet, but has a rosy frontside due to which it derives that name.

Similar behaviour as that of the other minivets except that it prefers small groups, usually 2 where both the male and female forage together. It is also a high canopy bird and prefers to come out to the open at the top!

ebird doesn't list the forest we visited as a native range of this bird, but since we sighted it during the non-migratory season, assume its resident there. The last trip we even sighted it nesting.

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Looking for the final meal of the day I suppose. There were plenty of them that day and the perches were beautiful.

One of my favorite birds, these small birds are a delight to watch anytime. The birds are social and are always seen in groups. These are resident birds and found throughout the subcontinent. Due to their vivid colors and beautiful eyes, pretty much everyone loves to photograph them!

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A resident bird of the jungles and forests at an altitude found in our neighbouring state. They were everywhere and unlike their common cousins, the common Myna, these birds are relatively quiet and mostly minding their own business.

We saw several in the forest we visited last week. Almost all of them were busy carrying food several times to their chicks. The nests were inside tree burrows - which we could see - but we could not see the chicks. The birds were quite wary as the area had lots of predators. We sighted several Malabar Pied Hornbills, Rufous Bellied Eagles, Hobby, Falcons etc... The Mynas were landing on multiple perches before going on to their nests so as to deter the predators.

Thank you so much in advance for your views and feedback.

Looking for the final meal of the day I suppose. There were plenty of them that day and the perches were beautiful.

One of my favorite birds, these small birds are a delight to watch anytime. The birds are social and are always seen in groups. These are resident birds and found throughout the subcontinent. Due to their vivid colors and beautiful eyes, pretty much everyone loves to photograph them!

Thanks so much in advance for your views, faves and feedback.

Another rarity that we sighted during this recent trip. These birds are found in South India and Sri Lanka albeit in a very small range. It is a bit common in the forests of Western Hills and in a small part of the Eastern Hill range in our neighbouring state.

This is a lifer and we found this in the most unexpected way on the road while returning. It is the only munia found close to forests and I confused it for a common one. The birds were found foraging on the roadsides walking on the road and flying away into the bushes on the side. I had time to lay down on the roadside for a few shots and requested the few vehicles passing on the narrow road to give me a minute or two for shots which they obliged.

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Narayanavanam, Andhra Pradesh

A resident bird of the jungles and forests at an altitude found in our neighbouring state. They were everywhere and unlike their common cousins, the common Myna, these birds are relatively quiet and mostly minding their own business.

We saw several in the forest we visited last week. Almost all of them were busy carrying food several times to their chicks. The nests were inside tree burrows - which we could see - but we could not see the chicks. The birds were quite wary as the area had lots of predators. We sighted several Malabar Pied Hornbills, Rufous Bellied Eagles, Hobby, Falcons etc... The Mynas were landing on multiple perches before going on to their nests so as to deter the predators.

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A typical nuthatch found much of the subcontinent in tropical dry forests foraging on the dry trunks of trees. Last year, I struggled to see them due to their small size, but now I see them everywhere and they are more common than I thought.

In the forest we spent last week, they were sighted in good numbers. Summer is the breeding season and hence we sighted many in pairs. The birds were actively foraging on tree trunks and the forest was unusually lush due to some rains in the dry season. That would breed insects in the bark which is food to many birds. This is a photography lifer as I couldn't manage a shot before this.

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The bird was unusually quiet for a cuckoo. It wasn't singing in its beautiful voice, but just looking around quietly.

A locally migratory Cuckoo very rare in our state, but apparently not uncommon in the region we visited. We came upon this bird at several places. They are here in time for the breeding season of the resident birds where they find a host to lay their eggs in.

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The area was full of Bee Hives and small birds. I didn't realize it then, but now when I think of it, glad this raptor who loves Honey combs didn't attack a hive. We could have been sitting targets for the deadly wild bees.

A Bronzed Drongo continuously troubled this Buzzard so much that it soon flew away. These large raptors are migratory, but in our part of the country, they are resident birds seen throughout the year. In this forest we visited, they were seen everywhere in good healthy numbers.

Unfortunately, while the light was soft, the sun was against us, so the white balance in this image is a bit off!

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One of the more uncommonly found Kingfishers that we stumbled across during our last birding trip. This is not found in our state, but there were only 1-2 sightings prior to our trip in our neighbouring state. And we sighted 3-4 of them - all of them hunting and possibly nesting on the walls of the small river banks. It could be called a stream maybe, 20 feet wide at best and very less water in the summer.

This is small Kingfisher - 15-16 cms tall maybe and is very similar to the Common Kingfisher with some notable differences. One - the Blue color on the body is a much darker shade and a white / orange patch on the ear that is seen in Common Kingfisher is missing for this species. The habitat too is quite different - this is found in the forest areas, specifically around streams that flow through the forests. I think what we sighted is an adult male.

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I know almost nothing about Damselflies except that they are so amazing and beautiful insects. So when we walked down to a forest stream looking for the Blue-Eared Kingfisher, we found not just that, but 30-40 of these Damselflies.

A friend who follows these insects, identified them by name as Streaming Glory. They are metallic green insects that were sparking in the light. The insects were flying above the shallow moving water and would land on the rocks where we took some shots. We didn't get any of the Kingfisher shots nor of any bird the few hours we spent on that day in the stream, but we enjoyed wading in the water and shooting these beautiful damselflies.

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A lifer and an uncommon bird found in the forests of South India in a very narrow range. The bird seems to be quite common across South East Asia though.

They are mostly found around Banana trees in the forests where they are sighted darting off on the top and under looking for spiders. We had to just wait near this Banana flower and it was sighted several times there. The bird - a bit bigger than the common sunbird was quite agile and it was hard to keep up with it in the canopy and bush!

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A medium sized woodpecker named after its rufous color and found much across the country in deciduous forests. The birds apparently have a strong preference for Bamboo forests and the place I visited last week has plenty of them.

I had sighted this bird several times before in previous trips when it was hunting insects on the trees. They prefer termites and particularly Arboreal ants and larvae. The birds forage in pairs and are often seen together. One interesting thing is that the birds nest within the nests of Arboreal / Tree ants. We had seen so many of these arboreal nests in the forests - large brown muddy bulbous things on tree tops. I wasn't aware that these woodpeckers nest within them. I guess they have a ready supply of food for their chicks.

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A lifer for me in the most unexpected way. We travelled half a day to a bird sanctuary / grassland to see a rare bird. And in the area there were known to be two of these Owls.

When we were driving to the spot, it was spotted on a nice perch on the side of the road waiting for roadkills. Apparently there were two of them and one of them died while collecting roadkill, so only this one was left.

Barn Owls are nocturnal owls and we often find them around granaries and warehouses which often have lots of rats in and around them. But these Owls require night birding and a high powered torch to take some shots. I am happy I saw it and it blew away my expectations. Quite beautiful and large too.

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A resident songbird with loud beautiful calls and of course a pretty long tail. They are in the peak nesting / breeding season and hence the forests are filled with their calls.

We found it resting under the canopy trying to beat the heat and at the same time keeping a watchful eye on us. The forest area we visited is notorious for hot temperatures which touch around 114-117 deg F or around 45-48 deg C routinely in summer. Apparently that is the best time to bird in that region since the birds are quite easily visible. In winters, the place is filled with calls, but sightings are quite impossible!

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This is considered a rare sighting in much of the state / country, but in this region, they are present in dozens. I was quite happy with the sightings.

A pretty large shrike, visibly larger than the other shrikes in that we often see around. The bird is truly black, white and grey without any other visible color on it - much like the era of black and white films. We found it perched on small shrubs from where it would dive to the ground or to a plant to catch something - often an insect or caterpillar. When we tried to get a tad closer, she flew onto the power cable where it rested for quite a while!

A 3 day visit to a wonderful sanctuary yielded almost nothing except for some birds that I have seen before. It was raining cats and dogs in my hometown, while it was quite hot and too bright in the sanctuary - due to that there were little interesting there.

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I sighted a pair of rare Watercocks in a relatively young paddy field. Those birds didn't come out into the open, but the kingfisher - which was around 20 feet from them - was busy looking for snails and other insects in the wet fields. This small border fence provided me with a great shot of this bird while I unsuccessfully waited for the Watercocks to come out into the open.

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A migrant to the South Indian Forests from Himalayan Foothills, these very beautiful birds are prized among photographers for their beauty. They are called "Navrang" in Hindi language or the "9 colored bird" and fully mature adults display those colors very beautifully - like the one in this shot!.

We shot this on the side of a forest road where they were present in large numbers. They are hard to side, but their calls are audible. We had to stop on the roadside and waited silently to listen for these birds. These birds forage in the upper canopy during mornings, after roosting on the treetops, but during the day come and forage on the ground. They are solo birds or usually seen in 1-2 numbers. Though in a small area, a larger number maybe present, the birds tend to forage solitarily. We couldn't get a closer shot since the bird didn't come down to the ground despite waiting for long.

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Another rarity that we sighted during this recent trip. These birds are found in South India and Sri Lanka albeit in a very small range. It is a bit common in the forests of Western Hills and in a small part of the Eastern Hill range in our neighbouring state.

This is a lifer and we found this in the most unexpected way on the road while returning. It is the only munia found close to forests and I confused it for a common one. The birds were found foraging on the roadsides walking on the road and flying away into the bushes on the side. I had time to lay down on the roadside for a few shots and requested the few vehicles passing on the narrow road to give me a minute or two for shots which they obliged.

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A very common Kingfisher found easily across our state in pretty much all kinds of habitats. The bird is a predator and adults do get pretty big - the size of smaller dove maybe - much bigger than most of the other kingfishers we normally see.

They are opportunistic predators and can be seen with a variety of prey in their beaks. This includes reptiles like Lizards and Skinks, smaller birds like White-Eyes, Flowerpeckers and even chicks of other birds, fish, beetles and Grasshoppers. They are aggressive and quite territorial. On a rare occasion, I sighted a territorial fight between this bird and the largest Kingfisher in South India, the Stork Billed Kingfisher. It was not a contest since this Kingfisher flew away from the area almost immediately.

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A rare bulbul in our place, but pretty common in the surrounding forests outside our state. These Bulbuls prefer dense wooded areas and often found in many jungles around the state, but not near human population or cities unlike their more common cousins Red Vented Bulbuls.

We sighted many in the summer carrying food and nesting materials. The Bulbul nesting season also attracts Cuckoo's which prefer Bulbuls for dropping their eggs. These birds are also social and always seen in good numbers together. They prefer to protect their areas by attacking in droves whenever a predator like the Coucal, Cuckoo's, or Owlets make their presence.

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A very common bird in the grasslands easily heard and seen. They are usually seen on the edges of the road looking for insects on the hard soil in groups of 3-4.

They are resident birds of the subcontinent and can be seen throughout the year. During rainy seasons and onset of winter, they are in breeding mode and hence lot of calls could be heard. The call is distinctive and easy to remember too.

On this day, we sighted this casually crossing the Sanctuary road in front of the safari vehicle. What surprised me was that it just took a casual in front of the dark green colored extremely loud safari vehicle while it ran in front of quiet white SUV. I always suspected the white color of the vehicle scares birds away and confirmed that theory in this trip.

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A beautiful Drongo with a metallic glossy plumage that shines in the sun. This has been a target for long and though we had seen many of the them several times, still don't have a satisfactory shot.

The birds are found in thick woody forests where they are sighted hunting in the canopies for insects. They have a nice metallic call that is easy to recognize. These are often confused with the other drongoes in the habitat which include the Greater Racquet Tailed Drongo, Hair Spangled Drongo, Black Drongo, Ashy Drongo and the White-Bellied Drongo all of which were present in the forest we visited. Luckily, it was summer and the light was good, so it was easy to identify the glossy plumage.

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The day was quite hot for a rainy season and the light was harsh much of the day. The evenings though were fantastic and the light was incredible. Alas - there was little activity.

We were treated to a double rainbow on this lovely path which was wonderful. To the left of the image where the cattle strayed into the protected grassland was the place we sighted the very rare and near threatened Lesser Florican. The shepherd also had a couple of dogs which made everyone nervous.

Shot on my mobile while balancing a heavy lens!

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A common resident parakeet often sighted around our region flying from one tree to another. This is also one of my favorite birds - especially the male. The colors are vibrant and very beautiful. These two are nestlings - maybe ready to fledge in a couple of days or a week max.

Shot near a tribal village in a deep forest - the area was very good with birds and open perches and we sighted several birds including Jungle Myna's, Sunbirds, Parakeets, Scarlet Minivets and even an Oriental Honey Buzzard sitting in the open like this. Unfortunately, the day became crazy hot with harsh light and we were forced get back to our ride very quickly.

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A colorful small flycatcher about 12-13 cms long and mostly found in forested areas in the country. They are easy to identify due to their unique colors.

The bird is thought to be migratory and breeds in the forests down South or in the Himalayan Forests. Imagine our surprise when we found several of them in the forest we visited last week where there are few records of the bird. It confused us since this bird is thought to be a winter resident to the region. Interestingly, we found several other migrants like the Eurasian Hobby and Asian Brown flycatcher during peak summer.

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. . . the poor you will always have with you. . . (from the archives)

One of 5 varieties of minivets in the forest we visited and a lifer!. Not the rarest, but definitely quite an uncommon one. It looks similar to the common Scarlet Minivet, but has a rosy frontside due to which it derives that name.

Similar behaviour as that of the other minivets except that it prefers small groups, usually 2 where both the male and female forage together. It is also a high canopy bird and prefers to come out to the open at the top!

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A wild rooster that is an ancestral stock of the domestic chickens. They are found across much of Eastern India and often heard, but pretty difficult to sight given their amazing camouflage.

The birds are a bit larger than the domestic chickens and much more bold in the colors. They frequent the under bush and we can probably get a glimpse of the head or tail sometimes. I have sighted them several times mostly running away into the bushes or at too far away. In many trips, we heard their calls a lot often for several days. But I never managed to see them in the open in a forest somehow.

This particular shot was taken from long distance while 2 of these birds were calling each other - probably competitive / territorial calls. We spent a while watching them and getting few shots before they disappeared!

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A common animal in the ever shrinking grasslands of the state. This one is a male and he was overseeing his herd while being watchful of the competition. There were atleast two other males who were eyeing the herd.

The place had a pretty large number of these Blackbucks - maybe 200-300 of them. A pattern we saw is that one male would have a large number of females in its protection along with a couple of other younger males too. When another male wants to lead the females, there is a small fight where each of them lock their horns and push each other. That quick battle decides the winner. I was able to capture some of the action and was happy that the battle was a quick painless affair.

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A rare and uncommon iora with sparse distribution in India - this is a lifer that I have been chasing for 2 yeas now. The bird looks very much like the Common Iora, but has a distinctive tail with white edges and white underside. The call is also different, a trained ear maybe able to pick out those differences in call quickly. This is endemic to the Indian Subcontinent and found in Srl Lanka and few dots in India.

The birds habitat is scrublands and scrub forests and is known to prefer areas with wild acacia - an invasive plant that grows crazily and dots tens of 1000s of acres in the country. There is a lot not known about this bird and apparently lot of research is needed.

After 3 hours of search and not getting any sighting, we decided to leave. But as a last call, we diverted to a scrubland and sighted these birds much to our delight.

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A Common raptor often sighted in the grasslands around the state. This one was a sub-adult I suppose since its plumage was not fully developed. In the field I had some difficulty identifying it.

The bird was walking in a dry field and picking up insects from the ground. It walked almost 20-25 meters and I found that incredulous since I had not seen that behaviour before. Suspected it may have been injured, but thankfully it wasn't and flew away when I approached close.

White-Eyed Buzzard is a resident bird of the subcontinent and are often seen in grasslands and on the edges of grasslands where there is some canopy. They are shy birds and it is a bit hard to get close to them. Unfortunately on this day, while the bird wasn't far, the place was hot and fumes ruined almost 100+ shots, just letting me recover 5-6 at best - mostly for record keeping purposes.

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One of the 9 species of Hornbills in India and an endemic bird of South Asia (India and Sri Lanka). This is a large bird, around 65 cms - bigger than many raptors we have here. This was a chance sighting when we went to sight the Green Avadavat, but couldn't. On a wrong turn, we sighted 9 of them on a fig tree that is full of ripe of figs and several species of birds were enjoying them.

There was a fallen fig tree next to a stream that is still growing and now is fruiting. 9 of these Hornbills, over a dozen hill mynas, several Jungle and Common Mynas and other birds were enjoying the fruit. Adding to the drama was a murder of crows that chased away all these birds, but the hornbills came back soon and chased the crows away. The haze was bad - but nevertheless it was a fun evening for us!

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A Black Kite was hovering above a paddyfield for a catch for a long time. For over next 30 mins she was was diving and trying to catch something, but the Drongoes would chase it away. The field saw a whole lot of action which was quite thrilling. Finally the Black Kite dived into the field and picked this thing up, not sure what it is, but it is not a prey for sure. And it rested on this boundary pillar for a while making it sure its not watched and then flew away to its nest atop a Palm tree I think. I had seen it landing there several times, but didn't go any closer since I didn't want to disturb it.

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I wasn't sure of this bird which appeared to be a Stilt to me. But I was clear of the differences and was sure it was not the very common Black Winged stilt. So took a couple of shots and turned out to be a Marsh Sandpiper. The bird was found near a marsh on the edge of a bird sanctuary.

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A beautiful long tailed song bird with a wonderful voice and easily heard than sighted. I had heard these birds calls several times, but never had a good sighting. This bird is found in the thick dense forests of South India and South East Asia.

We sighted the bird in the twilight period and literature suggests that the bird is "Crepuscular" (a new term for me) - which means active during twilight period. The birds are sexually dimorphic - meaning male and female look different. This picture is that of a male, blackish body and long tail. Females are more grayish on the neck and till middle of the back.

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Also known as Indian Scissor Bills, these are endangered birds that are found only in a few places in the country. They are somewhat like terns and behave like them both in flight and roosting behaviour, but are larger around 40-45 cms. These are mainly found in rivers and estuaries and are impossible to miss due to their bright orange, white and black colors.

The distinctive feature is the bill, with a long lower mandible and a short upper mandible. The birds skim on the water with their beaks open and grab fish, shrimp and other crustaceans and larvae. They are a delight to watch and we were lucky to sight around 300+ of them and spent an hour on the mossy wet ground shooting them.

The birds habitat degradation is the main reason for their endangered status. The colonies lie in the sandbars on the estuaries making them very hard to protect as well.

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A beautiful bird with a long tail and known for its mimicry. It has a pretty loud call that is easy to recognize. But the bird is also known for imitating other bird calls - I am not sure why it does that since there is ample food in the forest spot we visited. Maybe birds find comfort in the presence of other safe birds - a theory that I am seeing lot more. Just have to read up a bit about that aspect.

The area was dark due to dense foliage. I was nervous about snakes and the area was rocky near a small stream and full of bamboo trees - a nice habitat for different kinds of snakes.

We sighted several uncommon birds like the very beautiful Indian Scimitar Babblers - around 8-10 of them but couldn't even get one in focus, the Brown Cheeked Fulvetta, Indian Yellow Tit, Black Naped Monarch etc... After an hour of tremendous frustration with this one shot, just enjoyed the calls for 5 minutes and left the area.

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A resident bird of the jungles and forests at an altitude found in our neighbouring state. They were everywhere and unlike their common cousins, the common Myna, these birds are relatively quiet and mostly minding their own business.

We saw several in the forest we visited during the summer. Almost all of them were busy carrying food several times to their chicks. The nests were inside tree burrows - which we could see - but we could not see the chicks. The birds were quite wary as the area had lots of predators. We sighted several Malabar Pied Hornbills, Rufous Bellied Eagles, Hobby, Falcons etc..

A few of the mynas landed on this bushes on the roadside and started pulling out leaves and I suppose looking for insects inside them. I don't know anything about this plant, but suspect that this plant could be some kind of magnet for insects that attracted these birds.

Thank you so much in advance for your views and feedback.

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A Pelican sanctuary in the larger bird sanctuary area and we thought it was good to check. There were about 5-6000 Pelicans, a few thousand Ibis'es, Painted storks and other birds. Since the sun was high, took a few flight shots and moved on.

Shooting a Pelican in flight is always fun and I shoot these birds as practice for flight shots.

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Shot this bird flying over a Fish Farm on a narrow road with ditches on both sides. The Terns were too close and almost full frame which made it very hard to track them with a long lens. Adding to the challenge was a high barbed wire fence which obstructed the view much of the time.

There were over 50 terns and I just managed to get 2-3 good shots. And nothing with a green background, thanks to fence. I enhanced the sky a bit in Photoshop to give a bit of perspective.

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A medium sized raptor found in the forests across India and South East Asia. The bird is named after its preference for snakes though it hunts other reptiles like Monitor lizards, small birds, fishes, and even small mammals like Giant Squirrels and maybe Civet cats.

During our trip to a remote forest region in the neighbouring state, we came across 5-6 of these birds - usually in the mornings sitting relaxedly with one leg up and surveying the area around. I suppose it roosted on the same branch during the previous night. The birds are known for being perched long hours at the same spot.

These eagles can grow from 50 - 75 cms and have a variable size. They are also stocky and have a spotted frontside and definitive underwing pattern that make them one of the easiest raptors to identify. I had seen it in action few times hunting and it is exciting to watch how it identifies a snake from so far and catches it.

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More action today in the large trees in front my parents house. There were lots of Purple Sunbirds, Pale billed flowerpeckers, tailorbirds, squirrels, koels, and cats too. This sunbird grabbed a spider (I think) which seems to be sumptuous meal. It had a bit of difficulty to eat it, but finally managed to stuff the insect into its mouth. After that, she waited for maybe 30 seconds before flying away at the sight of a cat near the base of the tree.

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