One more image of the same

This extremely common butterfly is almost impossible to click. When disturbed it flies erratically and takes for ever to settle - mostly by then you have already lost interest in clicking it.

Found these fellows very close to the Tiger congregation. These fellow unlike most of there Moth cousin can be seen flying around in the daytime.

Birding @ Uran

This pond is probably the best place to bird in and around Mumbai. During the peak of birding season you can find at least 50 species of birds in and around here in less than an hour's time.

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).

At our next stop, the pond near the Training centre, there was a largeno. of ducks � Coots, Lesser Whistling Ducks, Garganey Teals, LittleGrebes and a few Unidentifiable Ducks.And at our final halt at a pond near the flyover we spotted a fewBlack winged Stilts, Bar tailed Godwits, and a group of EurasianCurlews (at least 15nos.). I've been told by our dear friend - Addithe Birdie - that such a large group of this species is quiet uncommonnear Bombay.


One more image of the pond near the Police Station

Birding along the creek

Went birding today with the BNHS North Mumbai group to Naigaon to bird along and on the Vasai Creek

But I have to say I was a bit disappointed after the much hype that Vidya had made over this trip.