Collared

Spent most of the day in Bharatpur looking for one bird - Collared Scops' Owl, after visiting all the known roost sites with no luck, managed to find one at a new site and giving great views to boot. In between checking all the sites, bumped into a few other bits and pieces - several Greater Spotted Eagles, a few Indian Grey Hornbills, 2 Black-necked Storks, a Wryneck, a couple of Black-shouldered Kites and up to 8 Grey-headed Canary Flycatchers.

Black-necked Stork

Black-shouldered Kite

Collared Scops' Owl

Indian Darter

Grey-headed Canary Flycatcher

Greater Spotted Eagle

Ring-necked Parakeet

Wryneck

28th January 2010 Thol Area.

After getting a car and a driver sorted out, eventually headed of towards Thol Sanctuary. On the way stopped at Ognaj village, where the large village tank offers some close views of water birds - 300+ Ruff, 150+ Little Stints, 4 Avocets, 8 Black-tailed Godwits and 20 Greater Flamingo were all within 100 yards of the road.
Got to Thol at about 10:30 and spent most of the rest of the day there - Thol is massive, even with a 'scope, it's massive, so after a while gave up on trying to scan through the huge rafts of Ducks in the distance, and just spent the day birding. 30+ River Terns, 40+ Black Ibis, 20+ Glossy Ibis, 120+ Painted Stork and 10 Whiskered Tern were all seen relatively close to the banks. 100+ Greater Flamingo, 70+ Common Crane and 5 Sarus Crane on distant islands, 2 Red-breasted Flycatcher and a Sykes Warbler in the Acacia Woodland (Thol was the only place we saw Sykes Warbler), and 4 Painted Francolin were seen around the car park. A distant Eastern Imperial Eagle was 'scoped from the car park.
Went on to an area of dried up fields just to the east of Thol village, this area had plenty of Desert Wheatears, Short-toed Larks and about 150 Blackbucks.
Between Thol and Ahmedabad picked up a soaring group of raptors, these turned out to be mainly Black Kites with 3 Steppe Eagles, 1 Griffon Vulture, 1 White-rumped Vulture and a Common Buzzard.


Avocet.

Black-tailed Godwit.

Greater Flamingo.

Ashy Prinia.

Common Langur.

Common Cranes.

Indian Darter.

Glossy Ibis.

Hoopoe.

Painted Stork.

Pied Kingfisher.

River Terns.

Indian Silverbills.

Blackbucks.

Mongoose.

Comb Duck.

Steppe Eagles.

March 7th 2008. India.

Morning spent on the Zuari River trip.

11 Collared Kingfisher, 2 Spoonbill, 9 woolly-necked Stork, 8 Ruddy Shelduck, 1 Osprey, 2 Pied Kingfisher, 1 Lesser Adjutant, 2 Stork-billed Kingfisher and 3 Crocodile. Also had half-decent views of a Pitta that looked more like Mangrove than Indian - uniform brownish crown, much blue in wing and long billed.