Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Trip to BR hills
Over the weekend made a trip to BR hills. It is a lovely place with a very diverse variety of birds and animals. Since it was for only one day could manage only one safari. Saw the following list of animals and birds

1. common flower pecker
2. bronzed drongo
3. asian elephants
4. nilgai
5. wild boar
6. giant wood spider
7. rufuous treepie
8. plum headed parakeet
9. plain drongo
10. green cheeked barbet
11. brahminy kite
12. magpie robin
13. blue bearded green bee eater
14. golden fronted leaf bird
15. golden oriole
16. scarlet minivet female
17. scarlet minivet male
18. hanging parakeet
19. flameback woodpecker
20. jungle myna
21. terrapins
22. white browed wagtail

2 comments:

vinu said...

quite a good sighting?? you will be posting the snaps rt..

Mahesh Devarajan said...

Hi vinutha,
It was good. But I should say I was not well prepared. We did a bird watching trek in the morning. The guide showed number of birds. But unfortunately things were happening so fast I ended up using the SLR like a point and shoot camera so some of the shots turned out like record shots.