Sunday, December 05, 2004

Uran didn't fail to amaze yet again - though the water levels
were much lower since my last visit there on the 31st of October.

We (Pragya and myself) were at the pond in front of JNPT Colony Police
Station a little past 7AM on Sunday the 5th of December, to find a
landscape that I would have probably only imagined in Bharatpur (see photos
attached below). We were welcomed by a small group of Ducks, Grey
Herons and Great Egrets, but a closer look thru the binocs a surprise
awaited us in a pair of Comb ducks. Further on, in the pond where we
had earlier spotted the strangler White Pelican, there was a large
group of Pied Avocets (at least 53 nos.) as we were trying to sink in
our first sighting of these wonderful birds a local fisherman walked
straight into the pond and flew them all away. We had to then settle
for the Sand pipers, Shanks, Terns and a few Eurasian Spoonbills (seen
flying overhead).

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