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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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
Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus
Little Egret Egretta garzetta
Little Egret Egretta garzetta
Red-vented Bulbul - Pycnonotus cafer
7 April 2019
Common Rosefinch - Carpodacus erythrinus
Eurasian Craig Martin Ptyonoprogne rupestris - In flight
Red-wattled Lapwing - Vanellus indicus - At nest
Red-wattled Lapwing - Vanellus indicus - injury-feigning
Shaheen Falcon - Falco Peregrinus peregrinator
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