The Spotted Owlets
Grey Hornbill
Golden Oriole
Am reminded of my last trip where my nieces caught a bit of the birding fever with us. Mansi and Mahi accompanied us on some walks around the campus. The herbarium of the hospital seemed like a little treasure chest for them with a couple of white mice, white pigeons and parakeets as pets and whole lot of others free. The sight of their jaws dropping on seeing the dance of peacock on the terrace of a water works building was priceless. They squatted pretty on the boundary wall of the herbarium and watched some sparrows play in a puddle. Thats probably the longest happy silence I've seen the two in.
Very soon, we had Mansi shrieking ...."Maasi ....woh dekho Kauwe jaisa hai" sending an unsuspecting coucal into a startled flight! The younger of the two had us rolling with laughter while she tried to quieten the elder one's banter with ssh's sharper than our pressure cooker whistle! For some reason , they felt that the paths we were walking were also frequented by snakes and that pretty much put a temporary halt to our watching for the day.
The campus where our home is offers such bounty and I say this with a tinge of regret that I never got around to exploring much of it during my college days. Well, better late than never here's starting with a bird list
In our visits between March 2010 to July 2010 we were able to identify these birds inside the Holy family Hospital Campus in Delhi. There are plenty more that we have not seen yet or identified and hopefully in the time to come we'll get to see more
- Black Drongo
- Brown Headed Barbet
- Common Hoppoe
- Common Maina
- Eurasian Golden Oriole
- Greater Coucal
- Green Bee eater
- Grey Hornbill
- House Crow
- Indian Cuckoo
- Indian Koel
- Laughing Dove
- Oriental Magpie Robin
- Peacocks
- Purple Sunbird
- Red Vented Bulbul
- Rock Pigeons
- Rose ringed Parakeet
- Spotted Owlet
- Tawny Eagle
- White Breasted Kingfisher
- Yellow Footed Green Pigeon
..... to be continued
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