Sunday, October 16, 2005

Kralingse Lake @ Rotterdam

After a month of not birding I was about to kill someone when I finally got to get out my Binoculars and head for the lake close to my school here in Rotterdam. And boy it was a great birding outing!!!
If my memory serves me right I had seen this beautiful bird near Dibrugarh in Assam in the might Brahmaputra more than a year back.
These beautiful Geese are seen all most everywhere here - in the small canal and streams that criss-cross this country.
Though all most all the birds seen here are also found in some part of India - they were mostly lifers for me and I'm sure they wouldn't have allowed me to approach them so easily back in India.
The woods around the lake revealed a few intersting birds including -
Wood Pigeon, Eurasian Collared-Dove, Winter Wren, Eurasian Robin, Blackbird, Blue Tit, Short-toed Treecreeper, Eurasian Magpie
I'll end my post of this weekend with this beautiful landscape shot.

And heres a complete bird list -
  1. Podiceps cristatus - Great Crested Grebe
  2. Tachybaptus ruficollis - Little Grebe
  3. Phalacrocorax carbo - Great Cormorant
  4. Blauwe reiger - Ardea cinerea - Grey Heron
  5. Alopochen aegyptiacus - Egyptian Goose
  6. Anas platyrhynchos - Mallard
  7. Anas querquedula - Garganey
  8. Gallinula chloropus - Common Moorhen
  9. Fulica altra - Eurasian Coot
  10. Larus ridibundus - Black-Headed Gull
  11. Columba palumbus - Wood Pigeon
  12. Streptopelia decaocto - Eurasian Collared-Dove
  13. Troglodytes troglodytes - Winter Wren
  14. Erithacus rubecula - Eurasian Robin
  15. Turdus merula - Blackbird
  16. Parus major - Great Tit
  17. Parus caeruleus - Blue Tit
  18. Certhia brachydactyla - Short-toed Treecreeper
  19. Pica pica - Eurasian Magpie
  20. Corvus monedula - Eurasian Jackdaw
  21. Corvus corone - Carrion Crow
  22. Sturnus vulgaris - Starling