Spent a morning with old friends at Sultanpur. Excellent Birding. The Painted Storks were feeding their chicks on the tree tops in the middle of the lake. The moustached warbler, the Blue throat and the Large Grey Babblers were also present in large quantites. In the Basai Treatment Pond were over a thousand Bar headed geese having flown from Tibet and China right over Mount Everest.
Bird List:
Shrikes (2 types),
Coucals, Hornbills, Parakeets(2 types), Owls(2 types), Sparrow Hawks,Black Ibis, Drongos(2 types), Cormorants(3 types), Herons(4 types), Moorhens(2 types), Lapwings(2 types), Grebes(2 types), Waterhens, Egrets (3 types), Sandpipers(3 types), Redstarts, Stonechats, Pigeons(2 types), Doves (3 types), Mynahs(4 types), Ducks (5 types),
Redwinged Stilts, Kites (2 types), Peacocks, Partridges (Francolins), Quail, Robins, Treepies, Magpie Robins, Bushchat, Brown Rockchat, Bulbul(3 types), Hoopoe, Woodpecker(2 types), Spoonbills, Munias, Sparrows, Wagtails(3 types), Larks (2 types), Common Kestrel, etc etc etc
A lot of these photographs are available at
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2049590&id=1209762187
Even though the sighting was great there were two mystery birds that I could not identify. Perhaps someone can help…














































