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Tag: winter migrants

Backyard Birding Notes from Kasavanahalli Lake in winter

Backyard Birding Notes from Kasavanahalli Lake in winter

Bijoy VenugopalJanuary 10, 2018February 20, 2024

Winter has come to Bengaluru’s Kasavanahalli Lake but the migrants are slow to arrive. A few sandpipers here, a few wagtails there and the odd Warbler or Ashy Drongo or two. It’s a slow start to winter birding in 2018

Winter birding – it isn’t over until it’s over

Winter birding – it isn’t over until it’s over

Bijoy VenugopalMarch 7, 2016February 20, 2024

Visiting the same location time and again has been the secret of this year’s winter birding escapades. It’s March but the migrants are still here. Among this week’s surprises was a flock of Garganey, wintering ducks from Europe that I have observed at Kaikondrahalli for the first time

On The Wing: Meet the Grey Plover

On The Wing: Meet the Grey Plover

Sandeep SomasekharanApril 19, 2014

You have probably seen the Grey Plover on a sandy beach in Kerala and not paid it any attention. Up close, its grace and beauty are alluring

Morning Raga by the Kentish Plover

Morning Raga by the Kentish Plover

Sandeep SomasekharanJanuary 15, 2014January 18, 2015

On the first day of 2014, we found this adorable Kentish Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus) in half minds whether to sing or not. Warm sunshine, sandy beaches and blue skies – who wouldn’t want to?

Encounter: White Storks wintering in Polachira

Encounter: White Storks wintering in Polachira

Sandeep SomasekharanJanuary 22, 2013January 18, 2015

In the Polachira wetlands of Kollam, southern Kerala, the sight of a White Stork, a winter visitor increasingly hard to come by in the subcontinent, fills the mind with memories seen and imagined

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