13th February 2010 Valsura and Lakhota Tank.

We visited a place called Valsura, an area of salt pans just north of Jamnagar in the afternoon. The usual stuff was on the salt pans including - 50 Painted Storks, 150+ Black-headed Ibis and 200+ Greater and 50+ Lesser Flamingo. Also a fly over Pallid Harrier and 1000+ Slender-billed Gulls heading for a nearby roost, on the main road through the pans there were 12 Sand Larks.
The evening was spent at Lakhota Tank in Jamnagar, where there were - 350+ Spot-billed Ducks, a Mallard (the only one of the trip), 400+ Ruff, 20 Whiskered Terns, 2 Pallas's Gulls and a Common Buzzard.

Sand Larks.

Black-headed Ibis.

Slender-billed Gulls.

Black-winged Stilt.

Pallas's Gull.

Spot-billed Duck.

February 14th 2008. India.

A full day out - morning at Maem Lake and Chorao Island, afternoon at Morjim Beach and evening at the Biera Mar.

1 Grey Nightjar, 1 Indian Nightjar, 1 Emerald Dove, 2 Crested Tree Swift, 1 Pied Kingfisher, 2 Red Spurfowl, 1 Yellow-crowned Woodpecker, 1 Tickel's Blue Flycatcher and 1 Shikra at Maem Lake.

2 Lesser Spotted Eagle and a Black-shouldered Kite at Chorao Island.

4 Turnstone, 8 Slender-billed Gulls, 70+ Pallas's Gulls, 120+ Greater Sandplover, 200+ Lesser Sandplover, 20 Kentish Plover and 30 Lesser Crested Tern at Morjim Beach.

2 Painted Snipe, 2 Clamorous Reed Warbler, 4 Night Heron and an Oriental Honey Buzzard at the Biera Mar.