Prasanth's Birdwatching Report 26-8-2012 Part II

Time : 10.35 am to 12.00 noon

Location : Kadamakkudy, Ernakulam

Weather : Cloudy sky

Birds

1. Little Grebe (1)
2. Little Cormorant (10+)
3. Darter (1)

4. Little Egret (1)

5. Grey Heron (30+)
6. Purple Heron (1)
7. Indian Pond Heron (10+)
8. Brahminy Kite (1)

9. Lesser Sand Plover (100+)
10. Greater Sand Plover (5+)

11. Common Redshank (100+)
12. Common Sandpiper (2)

13. Little Stint (1)
14. Curlew Sandpiper (3)

15. Black winged Stilt (20+)

16. Gull billed Tern (6)

17. White breasted Kingfisher (1)

18. Baya Weaver (50+)

19. Common Myna (2)
20. Black Drongo (1)
21. House Crow (10+)

Prasanth's Birdwatching Report 26-8-2012 Part I

Time : 8.30 am to 10.30 am

Location : Pizhala, Ernakulam

Weather : Cloudy sky with occasional showers.

Birds

1. Little Grebe (5)

2. Little Cormorant (20+)

3. Great Cormorant (1)
4. Darter (2)

5. Little Egret (3)

6. Purple Heron (4)

7. Large Egret (3)

8. Indian Pond Heron (10+)
9. Black crowned Night Heron (2)
10. Lesser Whistling Duck (2)

11. Spot billed Duck (20+)
12. Brahminy Kite (1)

13. Purple Moorhen (6)
14. Red wattled Lapwing (2)

15. Common Sandpiper (4)

16. Black winged Stilt (1)

17. River Tern (10+)

18. Small Blue Kingfisher (2)

19. Stork billed Kingfisher (1)
20. White breasted Kingfisher (2)

21. Ashy Prinia (8)
22. Plain Prinia (4)
23. Jungle Myna (1)
24. House Crow (10+)

Prasanth's Birdwatching Report 15-8-2012

Time : 7.30 am to 10.30 am

Location : Kadamakkudy, Ernakulam.

Birdwatchers : Vishnu Sivadas, Dr. Renjith Kumar, Dr. Jogi Joshua and Dr. S. Prasanth

Weather : Cloudy sky with occasional showers.

Birds

1. Little Grebe (5)
2. Little Cormorant (10+)

3. Indian Shag (1)

4. Great Cormorant (2)

5. Darter (3)

6. Little Egret (6)
7. Grey Heron (10+)
8. Purpler Heron (4)

9. Large Egret (1)
10. Median Egret (2)
11. Indian Pond Heron (10+)
12. Glossy Ibis (2)
13. Oriental White Ibis (4)
14. Lesser Whistling Duck (4)
15. Garganey (1)
16. Brahminy Kite (6)
17. Osprey (1)
18. Purple Moorhen (2)

19. Lesser Sand Plover (20+)
20. Greater Sand Plover (1)
21. Red wattled Lapwing (2)
22. Common Redshank (6)
23. Wood Sandpiper (4)

24. Common Sandpiper (4)

25. Black winged Stilt (100+)

26. Gull billed Tern (10+)
27. River Tern (4)

28. Common Tern (4)
29. Rose ringed Parakeet (1)
30. Greater Coucal (2)
31. Stork billed Kingfisher (2)

32. White breasted Kingfisher (2)
33. Lesser Golden backed Woodpecker (3)
34. Oriental Magpie Robin (1)

35. Ashy Prinia (8)

36. Plain Prinia (10+)

37. White rumped Munia (2)
38. Spotted Munia (4)

39. Baya Weaver (50+)
40. Common Myna (6)

41. Black Drongo (2)

42. Ashy Woodswallow (4)
43. House Crow (10+)

Prasanth's Birdwatching Report 5-8-2012

Time : 7.45 am to 11.45 am

Location : Kadamakkudy, Ernakulam.

Weather : Cloudy sky in the morning and later changed to sunny day.


Birds

1. Little Grebe (30+)

2. Little Cormorant (100+)

3. Great Cormorant (20+)
4. Darter (2)

5. Little Egret (20+)

6. Grey Heron (30+)

7. Purple Heron (10+)

8. Large Egret (10+)
9. Median Egret (10+)
10. Indian Pond Heron (30+)

11. Black crowned Night Heron (1)

12. Glossy Ibis (10+)

13. Oriental White Ibis (20+)

14. Lesser Whistling Duck (10+)

15. Spot billed Duck? (2) - seen two ducks larger than Lesser Whistling duck from a distance. When I reached near them they flew away with a quack..quack sound very similar to Common duck. Id confirmation difficult due to blue speculum.

16. Brahminy Kite (10+)

17. Osprey (1)

18. Purple Moorhen (20+)

19. Pacific Golden Plover (10+)

20. Lesser Sand Plover (300+)

21. Greater Sand Plover (4)

22. Red wattled Lapwing (6)

23. Common Redshank (50+)

24. Wood Sandpiper (10+)

25. Common Sandpiper (6)

26. Little Stint (6)

27. Curlew Sandpiper (10+)

28. Black winged Stilt (150+)

29. Gull billed Tern (10+)

30. River Tern (8)
31. Asian Koel- call heard.
32. House Swift (50+)

33. Small Blue Kingfisher (1)
34. Stork billed Kingfisher (4)

35. White breasted Kingfisher (6)

36. Oriental Magpie Robin (2)
37. Streaked Fantail Warbler (2)

38. Ashy Prinia (8)

39. Plain Prinia (10+)

40. Baya Weaver (50+)

41. Blyth's Starling (50+)
42. Common Myna (8)
43. Jungle Myna (4)

44. Black Drongo (4)

45. Ashy Woodswallow (6)
46. Indian Treepie (1)
47. House Crow (20+)