Monday 17th January
Bondla Wildlife Sanctuary
Well I have decided to use taxis for the trips to the Western Ghats so I might as well use some of the bird guides as I said before I have been out with Rayman and he is very good. So a early start pick up at 5-50 it took 1 hour 10 minutes to get there on arrival we stopped at a spot that Rayman always stops at (the list of lifers was a total of 35 so I will list them separately) as you can imagine birds where coming fast being with the guide helped a lot as if I had been on my own I would not have worked it the way he did we spent some time here as Rayman called Blue Bearded Bee Eater that flew over but we could not relocate it, we then stopped at another spot on the way to the main entrance to the sanctuary we were looking for Trogan here with no luck, we then stopped and paid our entrance fee and stopped once on the way to the picnic area by the river we were looking for the Blue Eared Kingfisher wich Rayman had seen the last time here which was last Friday but with no luck new birds seen were Brown capped Pygmy Woodpecker, Greater flamback, Brown Headed Barbet, White Checked Barbet, Malabar Grey Hornbill, Malabar Pied Hornbill, Nilgirl Wood Pigeon, Crested Serpent Eagle, Crested Hawk Eagle, Asian Fairy Bluebird, Blue Winged Leavebird, Black napped Oriole, Large Cuckoo Shrike, Bronzed Drongo, Greater Rachet Tailed Drongo, Blue Capped Rock Thrush, Red Throated Flycatcher, Tichell’s Blue Flycatcher, Chestnut Headed Staling, Velvet Fronted Nuthatch, Grey Headed Bulbul, Black Crested Bulbul, Yellow Browed Bulbul, Ashy Prinia, Western Crowned Warbler, Bright Green Warbler (race of the Greenish Warbler), Brown Cheeked Fulveter, Plain Flowerpecker, Purple Rumped Sunbird, Crimson Sunbird, Little Spidereater, Forest Wagtail, Black Headed Munia. As we were leaving we had the 2 raptors mention above as we approached Calagute we had a Indian Roller on the wires, The other birder on this trip said do you fancy doing this again so it was decided to go this Saturday and I am looking forward to it
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Wednesday 19th January
Today I spent some time just riding around a few of the areas that I have been doing over the past month just trying to get some pictures mainly of birds sitting on the wires will be putting some on blog if I have Enough credit on my Dongle as it cost to up/down load items
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Thursday 20th January
Lake Mayem
6-30 start today again a trip with Rayman the main birds were nightjars and a kingfisher with Rayman’s knowledge of this site it did not take that long to find the 2 nightjars Grey & Indian but no luck with the Orientale Pygmy Kingfisher Rayman did see it fly but we could not relocate it other birds seen included Orange Breasted Pigeon, White Browed Wagtail, White Bellied Drongo, Ashy Drongo, Golden Oriole, Eurasian Blackbird, Puff Throated Babbler, Blue Tailed Bee Eater, Changeable Hawk Eagle, as we were leaving and heading for another site we had 2 Pied Kingfisher’s on the wires we then went to a site south east of the lake We drove round the site looking for Lesser Adjutant with no luck but did have a Greater Spotted Eagle we then went to the other side near the river were we had Gull Billed Tern, Whimbrel, Redshank, Little Egret, Intermediate Egret, Great White Egret, Grey Plover, and then flying around a Lesser Adjutant, and the Greater Spotted Eagle again as we were heading back to the car we had a Striated Heron in the ditch and good views (got some video of it)we then took the ferry across to the road leading to Panjim where we stopped at some paddy’s as the tide was high here we had Lesser Sand plover, Temminck’s Stint, Little Stint, Redshank, Greenshank, and Rayman found a Greater Sand Plover then it was back to Calagute so ending another good days birding.
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Friday 21st January
Quite morning did a bit of ridding round the Philern area did find Indian roller on the wires then spent about ¾ of a hour trying to get some video of it no luck it just kept moving found this a lot lately think some of the birds are just arriving aftwr the bad monsoon spent the afternoon updating my reports then spent a couple of hours this evening in Apora Wood this was to see if I could finally see Indian Pita got to the spot to find a Finnish bird group there and where they noisy amazed they saw anything but after about 20 minutes they left and I was on my own could hear a Pita Calling then after about a hour and a half I was watching a Puff Throated Babbler and it just popped up in front a Indian Pita sat there for about 30 seconds and was gone so at last I have seen one
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