Location : Kadamakkudy, Ernakulam
Weather : Cloudy sky with occasional rains and occasional sunshine.
Birds
1. Little Grebe (1) - First time seen in Kadamakkudy.
2. Little Cormorant (35)
3. Great Cormorant (2)
4. Darter (1) - Immature bird sitting in a pole.
5. Little Egret (5)
6. Grey Heron (3)
7. Purple Heron (6)
8. Large Egret (4)
9. Median Egret (2)
10. Indian Pond Heron (10)
11. Black crowned Night Heron (2)
12. Chestnut Bittern (1)
13. Oriental White Ibis (2)
14. Lesser Whistling Duck (4)
15. Brahminy Kite (10) - Four of them were juveniles.
16. Purple Moorhen (5) - Seen less number of birds. Because Pokkali rice plants had grown in the fields so that birds cannot be seen.
17. Red wattled Lapwing (10)
18 Common Redshank (60) - Seen last time here on 5-6-2011, after that they had gone. There was a flock on a mud bank in the middle of paddy field.
19. Common Greenshank (10) - Seen along with Redshanks.
20. Common Sandpiper (4) - Seen along with Redshanks.
21. Black winged Stilt (6)
22. River Tern (20) - A flock were seen sitting on a mud flat in the middle of a paddy field. Some birds were seen flying above the fields.
23. Rose ringed parakeet (2)
24. Small Blue Kingfisher (1)
25. Stork billed Kingfisher (1)
26. White breasted Kingfisher (6)
27. White cheeked Barbet - call heard.
28. Oriental Magpie Robin (5)
29. Streaked Fantail Warbler (1) - courtship display.
30. Franklin's Prinia (2)
31. Ashy Prinia (20) - Every bush near the fields have at least one bird in it.
32. Plain Prinia (4)
33. Purple rumped Sunbird (5)
34. Purple Sunbird (4)
35. Black headed Munia (2)
36. Baya Weaver (50) - Most of the birds seen on paddy fields collecting paddy leaves. Also seen some birds building nests. Nests were on two coconut trees at the side of a canal. There are 26 half build nests.
37. Blyth's Starling (60) - Two flocks seen, one sitting in coconut trees and other on electric lines.
38. Common Myna (10)
39. Jungle Myna (4)
40. Black Drongo (4)
41. Ashy Woodswallow (8)
42. House Crow (52)
43. Jungle Crow (2)
Black winged Stilt, Common Redshank and Common Sandpiper
River Terns, Chestnut Bittern and Large Egret
