Birds At Pobitora

Last week I said that I'd be posting pictures of aquatic birds at Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary. As you can see from the picture above, the flat land has stretches of water and aquatic plants. Locally this kind of area is known as beel. The road has the beel on one side and rice fields on the other. It was a magical sight to see hundreds of ducks in flight as we headed towards the sanctuary. Below are some of the birds that I saw. There were more but the pictures weren't at all good.

Lesser Adjutant stork

The Lesser Adjutant Stork's main nesting area is said to be the north-eastern region. My book of birds says that it's normally solitary and its diet consists of fish, frog, reptiles and invertebrates.

Little Cormorant

Can you spot the doves? As we were returning I saw a pair of Spotted doves on this tree. Egrets, herons, the bronze-winged jacana, water hens, and hundreds of ducks were what we saw.

Closer home, the most common birds such as the bulbul, crows, mynas, and the drongo (pictured above) were feeding on the nectar of the blooms on the Corky Coral tree.


This post is for World Bird Wednesday.

Nature Notes/Birds at Pobitora

Ducks in flight at Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary

I'm a day late in posting. With the marriage season in full swing there are quite a few social commitments. Hence the delay. I'm sharing two pictures from our Sunday trip (details in my last post). I've never seen so many birds at any point anywhere. This was my first so you can imagine the excitement. The first picture shows ducks in flight. There were hundreds of them. The wetlands surrounding this nature park is a haven for migratory birds. This year's census was conducted in January by the Assam Forest Department and an environmental organisation. The week-long survey ended on January 29, 2012. According to the survey there were 12,000 birds of 26 species at Pobitora. The second photo shows a kingfisher on the wires, and beyond that are hundreds of ducks, herons, egrets, water hens, and storks. The migratory birds stay on till it gets warm. The last of them leave by March. I'm glad we made that trip. This is surely a sight that I'll remember for a long time.


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Nature Walk

                                                                     

Yesterday we spent an afternoon on the banks of Deepor Beel, the largest water body in our vicinity. It is home to several varieties of aquatic life, local and migratory birds, reptiles and insects.

Guess who was the first to greet me? Not something that I expected as soon as I reached the place! A snake got out of its hole, looked around and disappeared. I just managed this shot and I made sure I wouldn't go near its den even if the prettiest butterflies led me there!

The Grey Pansy butterfly in its natural habitat. So far I have shot this one only in my garden so it was a delight to be able to photograph it in the wild.

To swim or not to swim seems to be the question for these pretty ducks.

Another Grey Pansy on a dry leaf. And now for some colour!

A damselfly, the Coromandel marsh dart on a lantana leaf. There were several damselflies but I couldn't get a good shot of the more colourful ones.

The lantana blooms attract several butterflies. These skippers look pretty happy!

There were clouds of dragonflies flying in the air. If you click on the picture below, you'll see several of these beautiful black and gold dragonflies known as Picture Wings. Below is a picture I had taken of this kind of dragonfly a few years ago  .

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

I hope you liked joining me on my walk today!