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At 6:30 am, it was still dark due to the cloud cover. I felt like a real early bird. Saw an Indian Robin as soon as I alighted from the car. The early bird did get the proverbial worm...
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The sun peeped from behind the hovering clouds...
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A Painted Stork was spotted close by. It soon caught a small fry...
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After taking the small snack it continued its pursuit showing off its painted plumes...
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The droplets from the overnight rain gave some good bokeh photography opportunity...
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It was nice to see a Jacobin Cuckoo. It is partially migratory and in India, it has been considered a harbinger of the monsoon rains due to the timing of its arrival...
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Jacobin Cuckoo has been associated with a bird in Indian mythology and poetry, known as the chataka represented as a bird with a beak on its head that waits for rains to quench its thirst...
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A Red-wattled Lapwing was alert to sense any remote threat and was ready to scream out its loud 'pity to do it' calls...
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The male Baya weavers were starting the nest building activities so that they are ready to attract females before the Monsoon rains arrive. The overnight rain was a wakeup call. They were seen making sorties frantically with nest building materials...
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A Yellow-billed Babbler was seen foraging for insects that emerge after the rain...
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Again saw a Red-whiskered Bulbul, this time with a berry...
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It flew away showing its orange vent...
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A first time sighting of a Brahminy Starling here, thanks to a fellow birder K. This was the third variety of Starling, I saw in the last 3 outings. In the earlier trips, I had seen a Rosy Starling and a Chestnut-tailed Starling...
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Best possibility of buttering happens after a rain. I was lucky to see a Crimson Rose Butterfly animatedly fluttering around taking nectar...