Dear all, Yesterday (Monday 17.3.14) at Hijuli Forest in Ranaghat, Nadia, West Bengal we found at least 70 species of birds between 8.35 a.m. & 4.35 p.m. such as : Asian Openbill (in flight) 1 Black-crowned Night Heron (in flight) 1 Indian Pond heron 2 Cattle Egret 3 Little Cormorant (in flight) 2 Shikra 4 Black Kite 5 Oriental Honey-Buzzard 2 Crested Serpent Eagle 1 White-breasted Waterhen 1 Spotted Dove 35 Eurasian Collared Dove 2 Yellow-footed Green Pigeon 2 Rock Pigeon 6 Rose-ringed Parakeet 6 Common Hawk Cuckoo 10 Asian Koel 8 Greater Coucal 8 Spotted Owlet 2 Little Swift 1 Asian Palm Swift 2 Common Hoopoe 3 Stork-billed Kingfisher 1 White-throated Kingfisher 6 Green Bee-eater 2 Lineated Barbet 5 Blue-throated Barbet 30 Coppersmith Barbet 3 Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker 2 Streak-throated Woodpecker 2 Greater Flameback i.e. Greater Goldenback 5 Black-rumped Flameback i.e. Lesser Goldenback 6 Common Woodshrike 2 Large Cuckooshrike 2 Black-headed Cuckooshrike 2 Common Iora 30 Rosy Minivet 2 Ashy Minivet 2 Small Minivet 12 Black Drongo 15 Bronzed Drongo 15 [Here all the Bronzed Drongos surprisingly are very small] Ashy Drongo 4 Spangled Drongo 12 [Here we got at least 6 Drongos which have no white rictal spots, whose eyes are not red and which are slightly larger than Black Drongos] Black-naped Oriole 2 Black-hooded Oriole 15 Black-naped Monarch 2 Rufous Treepie 12 House Crow 15 Eastern Jungle Crow 12 Great Tit 15 Barn Swallow (in flight) 1 Red-vented Bulbul 35 Red-whiskered Bulbul 4 Common Tailorbird 20 Blyths Reed Warbler 1 Greenish Warbler 12 Yellow-browed Warbler 2 Jungle Babbler 100 Common Myna 5 Jungle Myna 5 Asian Pied Starling 15 Chestnut-tailed Starling 2 Orange-headed Thrush 1 (Male) Oriental Magpie Robin 15 Taiga Flycatcher 4 Pale-billed Flowerpecker 3 Purple Sunbird 15 Purple-rumped Sunbird 2 House Sparrow 3 White Wagtail 1. Participants : Me 2. Santanu Manna 3. Siddhartha Banerjee 4. Somen Sarkar 5. Kasturi Saha 6. Swapan Datta 7. Mou Sengupta 8. Bibidishananda Basu 9. Subhasis Das 10. Bijalpita Roy 11. P.K.Roy 12. Mrinal Suchanti. Habitat : Mainly deciduous dense forest with a few waterbodies and sufficient amount of undergrowth but almost without creepers & with very little amount of grasses. Weather : Nice. Mainly clear sky. It was comfortable. Reamarks : Bird activity was excellent. Trip was successful. We were glad. How to reach : Very easy to reach there. Sealdah North to Ranaghat station by local train (1 hour & 50 minutes). Then to the Forest office on the right side of the station by auto (12 minutes). Birding starts right from the Forest office. No entry fee, no camera charge, no permission required. Save Hijuli. Cheers ! S.Patra Sunday Watch
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 08:33:42 +0000
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