simplicity is a bird, who just knows how to fly…
Its been one & half years since we moved into this area & we have seen & observed many of our co-residents on the farm and also while taking a walk around the farm & also while driving towards the farm.
Some of them we have a visual record, some we have a audio/video record, some we have just seen & enjoyed their presence & not bothered to take out our cameras… you know sometimes birds also are very wary of the paparazzi !!
So, here is the list of the birds seen in & around the farm. Actually a bird census or a bird count from “Paabeghat to Madheghat” !
1. Little Cormorant
2. Little Egret
3. Cattle Egret
4. Grey Heron
5. Black Necked Stork
6. Glossy Ibis
7. Spot billed Duck
8. Oriental Honey Buzzard
9. Black shouldered Kite
10. Black Kites
11. Brahminy Kites
12. White Backed Vultures
13. Crested Serpent Eagle
14. Short Toed Snake Eagle
15. Shikra
16. Changeable Hawk Eagle
17. Kestrel
18. Painted Francolin
19. Common Quails
20. Jungle Fowl
21. Peafowls
22. White Breasted Waterhen
23. Red Wattled Lapwing
24. Sandpiper
25. Spotted Dove
26. Parakeets
27. Pied Crested Cuckoo
28. Caucal
29. Spotted Owlet
30. Jungle Nightjar
31. Small Blue Kingfisher
32. White Breasted Kingfisher
33. Pied Kingfisher
34. Green Bee eaters
35. Indian Roller
36. Grey Horn bill
37. Coppersmith Barbet
38. Crested Lark
39. Wire tailed Swallow
40. Common Swallow
41. Red rumped Swallow
42. Pied Wagtail
43. Citrine Wagtail
44. Paddyfield Pipit
45. Small Minivet
46. Scarlet Minivet
47. Wood shrike
48. Red vented Bulbul
49. Red whiskered Bulbul
50. Common Iora
51. Bay backed Shrike
52. Magpie Robin
53. Indian Robin
54. Pied Bush chat
55. Slaty headed Scimater Babbler
56. Large Grey Babbler
57. Jungle Babbler
58. Red Throated Flycatcher
59. Purple Sun bird
60. Crested Bunting
61. Red Munia
62. Scaly Breasted Munia
63. Black headed Munia
64. Baya Weaver
65. Brahminy Mynah
66. Common Mynah
67. Black Drongo
68. Golden Oriole
68. Treepie
69. Leaf bird
70. Orange headed Thrush
71. Eurasian Blackbird
72. Fantail
73. Ashy Prinia
74. Redstart
75. Brown Fish Owl
76. Blyth’s reed warbler
As our friend Nikhil always says: “may we always hear the whisper of the wings”
Ciao !!
