Showing posts with label Eurasian Sparrowhawk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eurasian Sparrowhawk. Show all posts

Thursday, November 4, 2021

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

 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
HAPPY DIWALI FROM MOUNT ABU

Green Sandpiper
Green Sandpiper - Tringa ochropus
WINTER VISITOR

Greenish Warbler
Greenish Warbler - Phylloscopus trochiloides

Hume's Warbler
Hume's Warbler - Phylloscopus humei 

Indian White-eye
Indian White-eye - Zosterops palpebrosus

Indian Yellow Tit
Indian Yellow Tit - Machlolophus aplonotus

Long-tailed Shrike
Long-tailed Shrike - Lanius schach

Long-tailed Shrike
Long-tailed Shrike - Lanius schach

Oriental Magpie-Robin
Oriental Magpie-Robin - Copsychus saularis

Red-breasted Flycatcher
Red-breasted Flycatcher - Ficedula parva

Red-breasted Flycatcher
Red-breasted Flycatcher - Ficedula parva

Shikra
Shikra - Accipiter badius

Shikra
Shikra - Accipiter badius

Spot-breasted Fantail
Spot-breasted Fantail - Rhipidura albogularis

Spot-breasted Fantail
Spot-breasted Fantail - Rhipidura albogularis

White-throated Kingfisher
White-throated Kingfisher - Halcyon smyrnensis


2 Nov 2021.
Gray Wagtail
Gray Wagtail - Motacilla cinerea

Indian Pond-Heron
Indian Pond-Heron - Ardeola grayii 

Indian Yellow Tit
Indian Yellow Tit - Machlolophus aplonotus

Peregrine Falcon (Shaheen)
Peregrine Falcon (Shaheen) Falco peregrinus 

Peregrine Falcon (Shaheen)
Peregrine Falcon (Shaheen) Falco peregrinus 

White-throated Kingfisher
White-throated Kingfisher - Halcyon smyrnensis 

White-throated Kingfisher
White-throated Kingfisher - Halcyon smyrnensis 


Dusky Crag-Martin
Dusky Crag-Martin - Ptyonoprogne concolor

3 Nov 2021.

Black-winged Kite
Black-winged Kite - Elanus caeruleus

Black-winged Kite
Black-winged Kite - Elanus caeruleus

Long-tailed Shrike
Long-tailed Shrike - Lanius schach

Oriental Magpie-Robin
Oriental Magpie-Robin - Copsychus saularis

Peregrine Falcon (Shaheen)
Peregrine Falcon (Shaheen) Falco peregrinus

Peregrine Falcon (Shaheen)
Peregrine Falcon (Shaheen) Falco peregrinus

Rufous Treepie
Rufous Treepie - Dendrocitta vagabunda 

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





Thursday, April 23, 2020

Birds of Mount Abu FEBRUARY 2020 mountabubirds.blogspot.com

III week February Birds of Mount Abu.

Black Redstart
Black Redstart 

Black Redstart
Black Redstart 

Indian Pond-Heron
Indian Pond-Heron 

Oriental Magpie-Robin
Oriental Magpie-Robin

Spot-breasted Fantail
Spot-breasted Fantail 

Yellow-throated Sparrow
Yellow-throated Sparrow  

Yellow-throated Sparrow
Yellow-throated Sparrow 

16 Feb 2020.

Black Redstart
Black Redstart 

Indian Yellow Tit
Indian Yellow Tit

Long-legged Buzzard
Long-legged Buzzard 

Spot-breasted Fantail
Spot-breasted Fantail 

Sulphur-bellied Warbler
Sulphur-bellied Warbler 

17 Feb 2020.


Greenish Warbler
Greenish Warbler 
Greenish Warbler
Greenish Warbler 

Indian Yellow Tit
Indian Yellow Tit 

Laughing Dove
Laughing Dove 

Little Swift
Little Swift 

Purple Sunbird
Purple Sunbird 

Shikra
Shikra 
Shikra
Shikra

Shikra
Shikra 


18 Feb 2020.

ID needed 

ID needed
ID needed 
ID needed
ID needed 


Oriental Honey-buzzard
Oriental Honey-buzzard 

Oriental Honey-buzzard
Oriental Honey-buzzard 

Oriental Honey-buzzard
Oriental Honey-buzzard 



19 Feb 2020.

Always wanted to see the "Black Kite" This was the first time seeing this species here in Abu. 
BUTLER recorded this species in 1875 as ABUNDANT. McCann (1942) found the species “common”. 
WHY THEY DISAPPEARED FROM HERE IS ANYONE'S GUESS. 
PROBABLY THE ABSENCE OF FOOD. The existing slaughterhouses probably closed. Abu is predominately vegetarian. 


Black Kite
Black Kite 

Black Kite
Black Kite 

Black Kite 

Black Redstart
Black Redstart 


Indian Pond-Heron
Indian Pond-Heron


Indian Silverbill
Indian Silverbill 

Large-billed Crow
Large-billed Crow 

Purple Sunbird
Purple Sunbird 

Purple Sunbird
Purple Sunbird 

Purple Sunbird
Purple Sunbird


Purple Sunbird
Purple Sunbird 
Purple Sunbird
Purple Sunbird 

Red-breasted Flycatcher
Red-breasted Flycatcher


Shikra
Shikra 


Spot-breasted Fantail
Spot-breasted Fantail 
Spot-breasted Fantail
Spot-breasted Fantail 

19 Feb 2020


Black Redstart
Black Redstart 


Cattle Egret
Cattle Egret 


Common Buzzard
Common Buzzard 

Eurasian Sparrowhawk
Eurasian Sparrowhawk

Long-legged Buzzard
Long-legged Buzzard


Long-legged Buzzard
Long-legged Buzzard 

Long-legged Buzzard
Long-legged Buzzard 

Long-legged Buzzard
Long-legged Buzzard 

Shikra
Shikra 
Shikra
Shikra 

White-breasted Waterhen
White-breasted Waterhen 


20 Feb 2020.

Lesser Whitethroat
Lesser Whitethroat 



Black Stork
Black Stork 

Bonelli's Eagle
Bonelli's Eagle 

Brown-headed Barbet
Brown-headed Barbet 
Brown-headed Barbet
Brown-headed Barbet 

Brown-headed Barbet
Brown-headed Barbet 

Long-legged Buzzard 

Long-legged Buzzard

Long-legged Buzzard 
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Indian Yellow Tit
Indian Yellow Tit 

21 Feb 2020.


Booted Eagle
Booted Eagle 

Brown Rock Chat -
Brown Rock Chat 


Common Chiffchaff
Common Chiffchaff


Gray Wagtail
Gray Wagtail 

Indian Yellow Tit
Indian Yellow Tit

Shikra
Shikra 

Yellow-throated Sparrow
Yellow-throated Sparrow 

22 Feb 2020.

Brahminy Starling
Brahminy Starling 
Brahminy Starling
Brahminy Starling 

Greenish Warbler
Greenish Warbler 

Oriental Magpie-Robin
Oriental Magpie-Robin 

Purple Sunbird
Purple Sunbird 

Purple Sunbird
Purple Sunbird 

Rose-ringed Parakeet
Rose-ringed Parakeet

White-breasted Waterhen
White-breasted Waterhen


23 Feb 2020.

Green Sandpiper
Green Sandpiper 

Long-legged Buzzard
Long-legged Buzzard 

Sulphur-bellied Warbler
Sulphur-bellied Warbler 



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