Dhule, being my hometown, I regularly make visit during the festivals and long holidays . And of course explore for bird photography. This is very dry region and becomes very hot during summer times. Water scarcity has been earlier a problem during summer times. However there are lakes around the city built to conserve the water. Nakane is one of the largest lake around the city.
Being a water reservoir it attracts various water birds. It is surrounded small hillocks with sparse vegetation mostly small shrubs and grasses. The lake is about 8 kms from he city centre.
This Dipawali, I explored the area around lake, along the edges to find some of the exciting sightings which included "Long billed Pipit", "Sarkeer Malkoha (couldn't photograph though)" "eurasian wryneck", "Bluethroat", "Common Pochards" "great Cormorant" etc.
I explored the Haranmal road past the ACPM dental college, where towards left side the lake edges are teaming with birds, especially early in the morning. As a golden rule "Early bird catches the worm", early morning is best time to explore and capture birds on camera.
Yellow Eyed Babbler - The vocalist
Zitting Cisticola
Yellow Eyed Babbler
Common Kingfisher - preening
Black Drone
Booted Warbler
Bluethroat
Lesser Whitethroat
Lesser Whitethroat
Lesser Whitethroat
Lesser Whitethroat
Lesser Whitethroat
Purple Sunbird
Bluethroat
Bluethroat
Bluethroat
Bluethroat
Booted Warbler (?)
Booted Warbler (?)
Great Cormorant
Long tailed Shrike
Plain prinia
Plain prinia
Eurasian Wryneck
Bluethroat
Common Hoopoe - Catching up the early morning snack
Common Hoopoe - scratching his head
Common Hoopoe - Whenever this bird takes flight and perches on something, for a split seconds the beautiful. open crest is seen.
Red - Rumped Swallow.
