I went to Kharghar Hills Birding Trail with BNHS on 9th Jan. Kharghar Hills is Part of Hills which Covers CBD Belapur on North West Side. The easy way to reach Hills is from CBD Belapur Bus Depot, its hardly 10 min walking distance. The gate is along the Sion-Panvel Highway, but not directly on the highway, there is one road going parallel to highway, the gate is just 50-100 meters from the end of the bridge towards panvel side. Kharghar Hills is declared as Nature Park by Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation. Access to this areas is allowed from 6:00 AM to 6:00 PM only.
I reached the gate by 7:25 AM. Few people were already there. Once we registered with BNHS Volunteer Rahul. The trail guide was Julius, a knowledgeable volunteer of BNHS. Total some 20-25 people were there for the trail. We can hear lot of chirping of birds at the Gate itself.
This Nature Park has Motor-able Road through out. People from nearby area came here for Morning Walk, few came walking and many came by Cars !!!
Once Started on Trail along with Mr. Julius, we saw small birds commonly found in bushes. Julius was identifying birds by Call or by visual confirmation. He was also explaining about trees and bushes found along the trails. It was quite informative.
Looking at big mob birds were keeping safe distance from us, could not get any good photo of any bird. We walked till 10:30 AM looking for birds, trying to catch them in Camera. I saw few birds for the First time along with few commonly available everywhere.
Following is the list of Birds I saw:
- Tawny-bellied Babbler
- Plain Prinia
- Grey Breasted PRinia
- Ashy Prinia
- Golden Oriole
- Common Iora
- Purple Sunbird
- Palm Swallow
- Dusky Crag Martin
- Red vented Bulbul
- Red Whiskered Bulbul
- Oriental Magpie Robin
- White Throated Fisher
- Drongo
- Greater Coucal
- Green Bea eater
- Rose Ringed Parakeet
- Dove (Could not identify as flying fast)
- Indian Robin
- Black Kite
- Black Shouldered Kite
- Common Krestrel
- Booted Eagle (Pale Morph)
- Oriental Honey Buzzard - (Could not confirm)
After trail, I went along with Suvrashish Sarkar, to Vashi Mini Choupati, in hope to see some water birds, but the Shore Line was too far from Choupati, hence we came back empty handed.
Following are some of the photos I could manage to catch..
Tawny-bellied Babbler
Black Kite
Common Krestrel
Black Shouldered Kite
Dusky Crag Martin
Purple Sunbird Female
Indian Robin
Plain Prinia
Ashy Prinia
Golden Oriole
Common Iora
Booted Eagle (Pale Morph)
Oriental Honey Buzzard ( We guessed, no clear visual or picture)
Some Warbler
Milk Weed Seeds
Comments and Critiques Welcome
Have a Nice day
Sameer
1 comment:
Very nice pics captured and your Wild Life database is amazing
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