Talawe Birding (26/6/11)

We* visited Talawe at Palm beach road, vashi on sunday 26th june 2011. This rainy day birding rewarded with sighting of *Cinamon Bittern* and flock of 100+ Lesser Flamingos, mostly all of Juveniles, settled in the pond for resting on one leg and their necks tucked in.

The blue-tiger butterflies were just hatching from their pupa and it was amazing to see them to take flight after it.

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The Green pupa of blue-tiger butterfly

Blue-Tiger just came out of pupa (on the left you can see the butterfly in the pupa)

Fresh Colors

Regular sigthts of Noisy prinias (ashy, plain) busy in taking care of nestlings. Lapwings, Bayas and Munias (red, black-headed and spotted). Few others also included Spot billed duck, grey heron, black-crowned night heron, brahminey kites, gull-billed terns, slender billed gulls, brown-headed gull and common red-shanks.

Black-Headed Munia

Red Munia

-Ritesh Bagul, Alok Bhave.

Forest Calotes.

This Forest Calotes male was persuing the female, taken under almost no light conditions in forest of Karnala...Transformations after rain are simply mind-blowing, and drama of life isn't small for small creature..