Monday, October 25, 2021

Birding in October 2021.Mount Abu mountabubirds.blogspot.com

Migratory birds I observed in the first week of October 2021.

The raging pandemic appears to be contained. Tourists to Abu have come in hoards at weekends are overcrowded and vehicular movement poses a massive problem during these days. Birding has been not too bad considering quite a few days of overcast skies. Migratory birds are here. Hopefully, by the end of the month, most of our warblers will be present.

Eurasian Sparrowhawk - Accipiter nisus

1 Oct 2021.

Shikra - Accipiter badius

Brown Rock Chat - Oenanthe fusca

Indian Silverbill - Euodice malabarica

Little Swift - Apus affinis

Rose-ringed Parakeet - Psittacula krameri

White-bellied Drongo - Dicrurus caerulescens

White-throated Kingfisher - Halcyon smyrnensis

Oriental Honey-buzzard - Pernis ptilorhynchus

2 Oct 2021,

Common House-Martin - Delichon urbicum 0F4A9009-COLLAGE.jpeg

RARE for this location and seems out of range I have recorded this species before.

Greater Coucal - Centropus sinensis

Indian Silverbill - Euodice malabari

Oriental Magpie-Robin - Copsychus saularis

Red-vented Bulbul - Pycnonotus cafer

3 Oct 2021.

Black-rumped Flameback - Dinopium benghalense

Coppersmith Barbet - Psilopogon haemacephalus

Dusky Crag-Martin - Ptyonoprogne concolor 0F4A9622-COLLAGE.jpeg

Every day I have been observing these Martin's in the beginning I thought they were showing signs of territorial display but I realized it was more of parental feeding young or could it be a display of courtship like that of the Falcon feeding its mate mid-air.

Eurasian Kestrel - Falco tinnunculus

Long-tailed Shrike - Lanius schach

Rufous Treepie - Dendrocitta vagabunda

White-throated Kingfisher - Halcyon smyrnensis

5 Oct 2021.

Common House-Martin - Delichon urbicum

Common House-Martin - Delichon urbicum
RARE for this location and seems out of range I have recorded this species before.

Dusky Crag-Martin - Ptyonoprogne concolor

Eurasian Sparrowhawk - Accipiter nisus

Gray Wagtail - Motacilla cinerea

Little Swift - Apus affinis

Oriental Magpie-Robin - Copsychus saularis

6 Oct 2021.

Bonelli's Eagle - Aquila fasciata

Changeable Hawk-Eagle - Nisaetus cirrhatus

Common House-Martin - Delichon urbicum

Dusky Crag-Martin - Ptyonoprogne concolo

Scaly-breasted Munia - Lonchura punctulata

Steppe Eagle - Aquila nipalensis
These were a common sight while the dumps functioned . Now that the dumps have
shifted to the base of the hill visits by these and quite a few other eagles have become rare.

Steppe Eagle - Aquila nipalensis

White-throated Kingfisher - Halcyon smyrnensis

7 Oct 2021.

Few migratory ducks had landed here in the first week of September, a sign of early winters here in the Abode. The Grey Wagtail is also one of our first migrants to make it up the hill. I recorded the wagtail on 3 August 2021.