Kudri tank

Flamingos in flight...while returning to Madras.

Date: 20 May 2007
Location: Kudri tank, SHAR road, near Sriharikota
Time: 6 AM

Comments: Good birding activity. Falmingos, pelicans, spoonbills, waders, some ducks.
HIGH DRAMA IN THE WATER: The flock of flamingos suddenly rose into th air. A jackal rushed into the water and chased a purple swamphen and finally caught it (see pics.)

Birds:
Greater, lesser flamingos (about 500 together)
Bar tailed godwits
Black winged stilts
Spot billed pelicans
Caspian terns
Whiskered terns
Kentish plover
Lesser sand plover
Common sandpiper
Redshank
Greenshank
Black ibis (lots)
White ibis (lots)
Spoonbills (lots)
Gargeny duck (few)
Spot billed duck (few)
Open bill storks
Grey herons
Painted storks (lots)
L, C, M egrets and pond herons
One lone raptor (shikra ?)
Indian moor hen
Purple moor hen
Other waders, but all far away

Good birding. Back in Madras by 12 noon.

Pictures by Dr Arun Kumar, Madras Naturalists Society