Trip to Guindy National Park

Guindy National Park

On Saturday, 4th November 2006 a few of us from IIT visited the nearby Guindy National Park. We were: Bimal, Sanand, Swapna, Vinu and Sudheesh and myself. Dr.Venil Sumantran, a biochemist too joined us. Dr.Kamaraj, the park biologist was our guide. Incidentally, Dr.Sumantran was the first non-IIT birder I have met.

It was a nice and interesting trip. Dr.Kamaraj spotted most of the birds for us. He has intimate knowledge of the park. He told us much about the plants and animals of the park.

Birds sighted:

Indian Pitta
Booted eagle (?)
Serpent eagle
Female paradise flycatcher
Forest wagtail
Shikra (sound only)
Golden backed woodpecker
Common iora (sound)
Bee eater
Kind of warbler or flowerpecker (could not identify properly)
In addition to common ones like parakeets, koels, magpies, coppersmith barbrets, spotted dove, black drongos, hawk cuckoo, spotted owlet, bablers, bulbuls (white throated, red vented), loten sunbirds

According to Dr.Kamaraj, migratory birds would come to the park by January. So we look forward for a visit to the park then.

Bimal took some nice photos. You can see some of them here: http://picasaweb.google.com/vbimal/GuindyNationalPark