We started our travel early morning 6.30am towards Fulay viilage with packed breakfast with us. Fulay village is a habitat with lot of Meswak, thorny scrubs and Ber trees.It is also of very rare Winter visitor Grey Hypocolius habitat in India.
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| Grey Hypocolius |
Some times it went inside branches and slowly come out from top branches with feeding on ber fruits. Although sighting was very good
but I did not get that much good photos because I forgot to change the settings of my camera.
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| Grey Hypocolius inside -Ber(Ziziphus mauritiana ) Tree |
Other commoner like
White eared Bulbul, Purple Sunbird,
Small Minivet too seen near by bushes.
Bluethroat and
Lesser white throat just give their glimpse and went inside dry scrubs.
While returning back towards vehicle
Rufoes Tailed Shike sighted in near to Caster farm.
Common Babbler,
Laughing Dove,
Black Drongo,
Common Hoopoe was seen enjoying company together.
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| Four's Company - (Black Drongo ,Common Babbler ,Laughing Dove, Common Hoopoe) |
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| Common Babbler |
We had our breakfast on the way to Charidhandh. On the way we stopped for some special species those were seen in the route. Desert Wheatear seen on top of bush at side of road.
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| Desert Wheater |
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Common Crane was sighted very far 30mtr inside dry grassland.
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| Common Crane |
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| Common Crane |
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| Common Crane In Flight |
50+ folks of Greater Short Toed Lark was seen feeding on ground, They were flying and returning to grounds as vehicle passing creating tide like effect.
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| Greater Short toed Lark |
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In route we come across of habitat of very special bird Creme Coloured Courser. This highly camouflage species only found at semi -desert habitat.
Watching this plover family bird was great fun It was running on ground suddenly stop seeing up. Because of this behavior this species also called as Dhavarya in Marathi.
As we came near to wetland, Long leg Buzzard sighted in flight .
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| Long Leg Buzzard |
At Chari -Dhandh already has well constructed watch -tower to make birdwatcher sighting bit easy.
We reached Chari -Dhandh at 12.45pm it was full of waterfowls spread in depth of waterbody.
Common Coot ,
Little Greabe,
Great Crested Greabe scattered all over.
Whiskered Tern and
Gull billed Terns was flying around.
White Throated Kingfisher , Common Kingfisher, Yellow Wagtail , Little Cormonrant was sighted around. Two
Dalmatian pelican sighted very far while were active feeding inside waterbody.
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| Chari-Dhandh Wetland Habitat - Photo Courtesy Shobha Chavada |
In raptors we sighted
Eurasian Marsh Harriar flying over the mangroves but no sighting any other Aquila Eagles which very common to this habitat. Mid noon we started towards Hokada to having our lunch.
On the way we came across amazing Habitat were sighted plenty of Indian courser. It was so close to vehicle some less than minimum focusing distance of camera.
White Stork which is rare winter migrant to India also sighted on the route
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| White Stork |
Adesh & Mandar already booked for us very nice resort in Rann
Shaam E- Sarhd for Lunch which developed by UDEP. Even-though we were already late( 3.30pm) but the nice eco -friendly resort with local food dishes refreshed & energized all of us.
After lunch we started towards special habitat known as
Banni Grassland.
For Short Eared Owl our jeeps started driving inside rann. Short Eared Owl which roost normally in day light at ground below the bushes and active in night. Our two jeeps sighted it first very close by but it went inside before our jeep birders able see it.We decided to take different routes so everyone can see it.
Really it was wonderful experience to spot this Big owl, which we sighted very near bush to left side of our vehicle. It was amazing to see its head rotating to 360 degree.
While returning back from Banni to Nakhatrana
Variable Whaeter given nice pose for all us to take nice photos. It was perched on Timber kept near to home in village. Here photo which only resized .
Returning journy from Banni Grassland was thrilling we all also experienced the well known phenomena of Chir-Batti in Rann.
