https://earthstar.blog/2020/01/23/23-366-siberian-chiffchaff-2020/
Doing the numbers Australia
Zion National Park
Bird Race, 190120
Amit, Edgar,Harish, Keerthana, Kumuda, Poorvi,Prem,Radhika, Shreeya, Sriram,Valli, and I
To Ravugodlu.
Shared packed brefus.
to NASA’s for coffee.
To Kaggala halli kere,
Gabbadi kere,
Harohalli kere,
Suvarnamukhi Reservoir. (Ate the rest of the food for lunch)
Did not go to
Bettahalli Kaval kere.
Kabbina haalu on the way back. Coffee and checklist at Checkpost.
Gathering and dinner at Royal Orchid, Manipal Centre. Subbu’s following Salim Ali talk. Too long and not apt for the evening.
The eBird list for Ravugodlu is at
https://ebird.org/checklist/S63541088
The FB album is at
https://www.facebook.com/deemopahan/media_set?set=a.10157241963673878&type=3
and the Flickr album is at
Valley School area: A write-up for Ramki Sreenivasan
As part of the Bannerghatta Biosphere, the area of scrub jungle adjoining and abutting the Valley School ( a day school run by Krishnamurthy Foundation India) has for long been a birding hotspot.
The area that birders frequent comprises surprisingly varied terrain, for such a small acreage. There is scrub, open grassland, and a wooded area; a small stream that can run either full or reduce to a trickle in the dry months, adds a water body. This, of course, does not include the actual School campus, which, after a few instances of drunken behaviour, is not accessible for local birders in general.
As one walks along the path next to the barbed wire from the main gate of the school, one can take a right and get to the open grassland area. Sightings in this area include many flycatchers such as the White-throated Fantail,
and the Tickell’s Blue (resident)
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Birds and brains! IISc students trip to Ranganathittu, 180120
It was a new experience for me…taking 27 students of IISc(from undergrad level to Ph.D. students) along with a professor and his young daughter, to Ranganathittu, on the 18th of Jan, 2020. Arun Kaulige also guided the group. Kiran and Ambarish organized the trip extremely well.
The group. Photo: a passing tourist!
It was a first for me as I have never before taken such a large group which does not hail from Karnataka! Naturally, since the group consisted of people who have secured admission into various programs at IISc, they were from various parts of the country.
I was also a little doubtful about our later-than-usual start…we left Bangalore at 7.15 am, stopped for breakfast at Kumbalgodu, and then proceeded to Ranganathittu…but I need not have worried.
Flycatchers of three kinds…the Tickell’s Blue, the White-breasted Fantail, and a beautiful Verditer flitted around even as we entered the sanctuary. We…
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Raptors vs. Squirrels
Another adult Red-tailed Hawk, another Green-Wood squirrel.
Sunday above Sylvan Water.
How many squirrels are in the cemetery? Not as many, I would guess, as in Prospect Park.
While looking for interesting birds lately I’ve come across a couple of squirrels doing their best to lay low inside conifers. On Sunday, on the other hand, five of them ran towards me before breaking this way and that, including up into a bush. They were acting like new-borns but weren’t. Most of Saturday’s snow was already gone.
