Birds of Mount Abu APRIL 2019 mountabubirds.blogspot.com

Birding in the First week of April 2019. Mt Abu

The end of March saw a steep spike in the rising temperature. The days of the first week of April have been hot, it seems early summer has set in for our part of the world. Most of our winter migrants have left. It's nesting season right now for most of our local birds. I do a spot of birding in the late evenings. Appreciate my collection of birds made during this month.

1 April 2019

Grey Wagtail - Motacilla cinerea 

House sparrow - Passer domesticus - Male

Red-vented Bulbul - Pycnonotus cafer

Red-wattled Lapwing - Vanellus indicus

2 April 2019.

Common Rosefinch -  Carpodacus erythrinus - Male

House Sparrow Passer domesticus indicus   - Juvenile

3 April 2019 

Common Rosefinch -  Carpodacus erythrinus  - Male

Common Rosefinch -  Carpodacus erythrinus  - Female

House sparrow - Passer domesticus - female 

House sparrow - Passer domesticus - Male 

4 April 2019.

Common Tailorbird - Orthotomus sutorius

Grey Wagtail Motacilla cinerea - Male in breeding plumage

Shaheen Falcon - Falco Peregrinus peregrinator

5 April 2019.

Grey Wagtail Motacilla cinerea - Male in breeding plumage

Indian Silverbill  - Lonchura malabarica

Long-legged buzzard - Buteo rufinus

Long-legged buzzard - mobbed by Jungle Crow

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Territorial Dispute The Jungle Crow rule the roost in this area.

Red-wattled Lapwing - Vanellus indicus TRYING TO ATTACK DAMAN

Red-wattled Lapwing - Vanellus indicus - injury-feigning

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Red-wattled Lapwing NO match for the Daman Snake 

6 April 2019.

Went to the Duck Pond on the 6 April 19, probably for the last time this year to check and see how many of our winter visitors were still there. Was surprised to see a solitary Common Teal - Anas crecca - Female. There were a handful of black-winged stilts, a few Red-wattled lapwings, two woolly necked Storks, a few sandpipers and an Indian Pond Heron. Earlier in the day early morning visited another water body the Jawai catchment water body. The duck had also left from here. Here I photographed alone little egret and a little cormorant.  

Common Teal - Anas crecca - Female

( The solitary  Winter visitor still to depart )

Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus 

Little Egret Egretta garzetta 

Little Egret Egretta garzetta 

Red-vented Bulbul - Pycnonotus cafer

7 April 2019

Common Rosefinch -  Carpodacus erythrinus

( Passage migrants )

Eurasian Craig Martin Ptyonoprogne rupestris   - In flight

( Winter visitor )

Red-wattled Lapwing - Vanellus indicus - At nest 

Red-wattled Lapwing - Vanellus indicus - injury-feigning

Shaheen Falcon - Falco Peregrinus peregrinator