It's Deepawali today. To all my readers and our Guests in Abu, I wish all a stress-free and safe passage and hope you enjoy your Diwali holiday in the Abode of the Gods. Welcome to Mount Abu, please avoid littering and throwing empty water bottles and beer bottles on the hillsides.

A HAPPY Diwali TO ALL OUR GUESTS MAY YOU ENJOY YOUR HOLIDAY TO YOUR HEARTS CONTENT.

Birding in the first week of December 2021.

Birders heading here for Mount Abu should shun the first 10 days of November(Post Diwali). Abu at the moment is House FULL and there is a continuous movement of vehicular traffic throughout the day and late into the evening. Also, the weekends till December should be a NO. Birders seek to make it mid-week when there is a respite in the visitor movement.

We have migratory winter visitors like Alpine Swift, Eurasian Marsh-Harrier, and Pallid Harrier, as well as passage migrants like Eurasian Sparrowhawk and Eurasian Crag-Martin. We also have Greenish Warbler, Hume's Warbler, Common Buzzard, Gray Wagtail, and various wild ducks such as Northern Pintail, Northern Shoveler, and Common Pochard. The Green Munia should be a must on all birders’ lists, as Abu is doubtless one place where a birder can nail this exquisite bird in his collection.

1 Nov 2021.

HAPPY DIWALI FROM MOUNT ABU

Green Sandpiper - Tringa ochropus
WINTER VISITOR

Greenish Warbler - Phylloscopus trochiloides

Hume's Warbler - Phylloscopus humei

Indian White-eye - Zosterops palpebrosus

Indian Yellow Tit - Machlolophus aplonotus

Long-tailed Shrike - Lanius schach

Oriental Magpie-Robin - Copsychus saularis

Red-breasted Flycatcher - Ficedula parva

Shikra - Accipiter badius

Spot-breasted Fantail - Rhipidura albogularis

White-throated Kingfisher - Halcyon smyrnensis

2 Nov 2021.

Gray Wagtail - Motacilla cinerea

Indian Pond-Heron - Ardeola grayii

Indian Yellow Tit - Machlolophus aplonotus

Peregrine Falcon (Shaheen) Falco peregrinus

White-throated Kingfisher - Halcyon smyrnensis

Dusky Crag-Martin - Ptyonoprogne concolor

3 Nov 2021.

Black-winged Kite - Elanus caeruleus

Long-tailed Shrike - Lanius schach

Oriental Magpie-Robin - Copsychus saularis

Peregrine Falcon (Shaheen) Falco peregrinus

Rufous Treepie - Dendrocitta vagabunda

It's Tweet Tweet for now
Cheers to the Diwali Season

Migratory and local birds observed in November 2020.

These are the few birds that I recorded in the second week of November 2020.

They are Dusky Crag-Martin, Eurasian Crag-Martin, Eurasian Griffon, Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Greenish Warbler ,Hume's Warbler, Northern Pintail, Northern Shoveler, Green-winged Teal, Gadwall , Common Pochard, Indian Vulture, Long-legged Buzzard and the Sulphur-bellied Warbler.

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Birds recorded in Mount Abu second week November 2020.

Indian Vulture Gyps indicus

Indian Vulture Gyps indicus also was known as the Long-billed Vulture: Used to be a Resident. Till the early seventies, these birds were a common sight here in Mount Abu. These birds also nested here. After the eighties, this bird became a rarity, if someone spotted one it was a joy for the birder spotted him.