Birding in paradise

I spend today in Bird Haven... I was at the Keoladeo Bird Sanctuary in Bharatpur (near Fatehpur Sikri) and here's a few photos from there..

Starting with a couple of images of the park …

Now the birds…

Green bee-eater

Spotted owlet

Rose ringed parakeet

 Collared scoops owl

Black-rumped Flameback (also called  Lesser Golden-backed Woodpecker)

Painted Storks

Spoon billed stork

Mixed heronry – of Pond Herons, Median Egrets, Great Cormorants and Painted Storks

Grey Herons, Median Egrets, Spoon-billed storks and Painted Storks

Grey Heron

And to end a few photos of Mammals from the park

Spotted deer

and a Jackal

The Demoiselles of Keechan

This morning I went to a tiny village called Keechan (around 4 hours from Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India) to see one of the most amazing wildlife spectacles of India. Everyday during winter as many as 10,000 Demoiselle Cranes (Anthropoides virgo) decent to this village to feed (for decades now the villagers have been putting out tones of grains for these winged visitors). 

Here's a few photos of the spectacle: