Let me make a beginning about the various birds we saw on the trip to Delhi....

Here's the Yellow-Footed Green Pigeon.


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Just to give non-birders an idea of how tough it can be to spot birds. Normally I do not post large-size pictures, but this time I will.

Can you spot the Crested Lark in the picture?


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It was a little difficult, after having got home from a Sangeet ceremony for someone's wedding, and gone to sleep at past 2 am, to leave at 5.30 am...so we sort of managed at 6 am instead. We followed AMS' excellent directions and found AMS, Hassath and Ammu waiting for us on the Jaipur highway, and proceeded to the Sanctuary.

( Lots of pictures and the account under this cut.Some were taken by KM,some by me, and several by Abhijit, so I can't give proper credits... )

While we were at Sultanpur Bird Sanctuary, we saw two species of mammals...the Nilgai, and the Touristus Noisii. The latter were students of  "Pathways International School", and arrived in large flocks. Some of them came up to some of us with their "Nature Trip" file folders, one page of which said, "Take an interview of a tourist whom you meet ( Read more... )