Last Saturday, Shreeram, Sushant and I had been to Ragihalli on a birding trip. This is a micro report on it.
Route taken: Bannerghatta road – take left at the circle before Bannerghatta national park (I think the Veeranjaneya temple is there too just around the circle ) – keep going about 6-8 Km.
We stopped for birding at 3 spots, one being an open land en route, second being the rocks overlooking Jigani (I think) and the last one being an almost dry lake. Having experienced birders like Sushant and Shreeram helped me spot more birds this time. Highlights to me were the spottings of peacocks, barred button quail, juvenile yellow wattled lapwing, rufous treepie, etc. Also, when I was walking near a bush, a hare jumped out of nowhere and ran away just near my legs.. almost giving me a scare!
Here is the full list of birds seen on this trip. (Thanks to Sushant and Shreeram for contributing to the list).
- Ashy prinia
- Asian Koel (heard)
- Barred button quail
- Black Drongo
- Black kite
- Cattle Egret
- Common myna
- Common Tailorbird
- Coucal
- Green bee eater
- Grey wagtail
- House Crow
- House Sparrow
- Indian Pond Heron
- Indian robin
- Indian Silverbill
- Jungle Crow
- Lark
- Laughing dove
- Little Egret
- Magpie Robin
- Oriental Honey Buzzard
- Paddyfield pipit
- Peacock
- Pied bushchat
- Plum headed Parakeet
- Puff-throated Babbler (heard)
- Purple rumped sunbird
- Purple Sunbird
- Red vented bulbul
- Red wattled lapwing
- Red-whiskered Bulbul
- Rose-ringed Parakeet
- Rufous treepie
- Scaly breasted munia
- White eyes
- White-browed Bulbul
- White-browed Wagtail
- Yellow wattled lapwing
- Yellow-billed Babbler