[Leica] Birds in the Bush

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Instead of sparrows, we have an urban area full of pigeons...

I jest. There are plenty of pigeons, but Chennai has plenty of waterbodies
full of sea birds and migratory birds - from thousands of Greater Flamingos
to the smallest prinias. Cannot really complain.

>From my bedroom, which opens out into the Bay of Bengal, in addition to the
inevitable crows and pigeons, I have often spotted Painted Storks,
Open-billed Storks, Spot-billed Pelicans, Cormorants, Cattle and
Intermediate Egrets, Sunbirds, Koel, Mynahs, Kingfishers (Common,
White-throated and Pied), Black Kites, Shikra and many more. Unfortunately,
all a bit too small (I live on the fifth floor of a condo comfortably above
the surrounding vegetation), or a bit too far away to photograph - but good
to dust off the binoculars from time to time. At ground level, within the
residential complex lurks two grey mongoose and young, so no doubt, there
are plenty of snakes around. All in all, not too shabby in an urban area of
8-10 million people!

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/WIndia/PLBS/

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/WIndia/Vedbirds/

Cheers
Jayanand



On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 3:51 PM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

> Good ol' Monsanto and their ilk!?? Who needs birds anyway - all that
> twittering noise in the mornings.
> I hope they've put up plenty of benches to give depressed birdwatchers
> somewhere to sit down and cry.
>
> Nice shot, Chris
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> Douglas
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> On 01/09/2020 03:00, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote:
> > Nice to see sparrows. They have disappeared completely from Urban India,
> > which has been attributed to their feeding on pesticide infused grain.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Jayanand
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 2:54 AM Christopher Crawford <
> > chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote:
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> >> This row of bushes was COVERED in hundreds of sparrows! I photographed
> >> them in the evening shortly before sunset one day last week.
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