Tuesday 19 April 2011

Day 5 Dona Paula

Today we stayed in local Areas firstly just a bit of birding around the grounds until Breakfast,
where we found
Little & Pond Heron
Large billed & House Crow
Black & Brahminy Kite
Greenish Warbler
Common Sandpiper

After Breakfast we set off for the British Cemetery and Scrubland
here we had
Brahminy & Black Kite
Gull-billed Tern
Red Whiskered & White-browed Bulbul
Purple-rumped Sunbird
Ashy Prinia
Golden Oriole
House Sparrow
Common Tailorbird
White cheeked & Coppersmith Barbet
Chestnut-tailed Starling
Red-necked Falcon
Swallow
House Swift
Cattle Egret
Asian Koel
Greater Coucal
White-rumped Munia
Black-rumped Flameback
Indian & Magpie Robin
Jungle Myna
White-breasted Kingfisher
Red-wattled Lapwing
Asian Paradise Flycatcher
Tickell's Blue Flycatcher
Clamorous Reed Warbler
Ashy Drongo

as the sun was getting too hot we headed back to the hotel for a cold drink and a swim until the afternoon when it cooled off again.
Then we headed off for a area unknown to us Taleigao Dump & Scrubland not knowing what we would find if anything we left the camera's behind and had a nice walk around.
Birds found
Purple & Purple-rumped Sunbird
Red & Yellow wattled Lapwing
House Sparrow
House Swift
Brown-headed & White-cheeked Barbet
Little Green & Blue-tailed Bee-eater
Richard's Pipit
House Crow
Black & Brahminy Kite
Ashy Prinia
Magpie & Indian Robin
Cattle & Intermediate Egret
Spotted Dove
Jungle Myna
Red Whiskered Bulbul
Rose-coloured Starling
Plum-headed Parakeet

made a great days birding and thanks to the locals for putting us onto it.
Magpie Robin - Female

Jungle Myna

White-browed Bulbul

Bee of some sort?

Purple-rumped Sunbird

Asian Koel

Tickell's Blue Flycatcher

Tickell's Blue Flycatcher

Ashy Drongo

Ashy Drongo

Ashy Drongo

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