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