Birding trip: Ragihalli

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Last Saturday, Shreeram, Sushant and I had been to Ragihalli on a birding trip. This is a micro report on it.

Route taken: Bannerghatta road – take left at the circle before Bannerghatta national park (I think the Veeranjaneya temple is there too just around the circle ) – keep going about 6-8 Km.

We stopped for birding at 3 spots, one being an open land en route, second being the rocks overlooking Jigani (I think) and the last one being an almost dry lake. Having experienced birders like Sushant and Shreeram helped me spot more birds this time. Highlights to me were the spottings of peacocks, barred button quail, juvenile yellow wattled lapwing, rufous treepie, etc. Also, when I was walking near a bush, a hare jumped out of nowhere and ran away just near my legs.. almost giving me a scare!

Here is the full list of birds seen on this trip. (Thanks to Sushant and Shreeram for contributing to the list).

1. Ashy prinia
2. Asian Koel (heard)
3. Barred button quail
4. Black Drongo
5. Black kite
6. Cattle Egret
7. Common myna
8. Common Tailorbird
9. Coucal
10. Green bee eater
11. Grey wagtail
12. House Crow
13. House Sparrow
14. Indian Pond Heron
15. Indian robin
16. Indian Silverbill
17. Jungle Crow
18. Lark
19. Laughing dove
20. Little Egret
21. Magpie Robin
22. Oriental Honey Buzzard
23. Paddyfield pipit
24. Peacock
25. Pied bushchat
26. Plum headed Parakeet
27. Puff-throated Babbler (heard)
28. Purple rumped sunbird
29. Purple Sunbird
30. Red vented bulbul
31. Red wattled lapwing
32. Red-whiskered Bulbul
33. Rose-ringed Parakeet
34. Rufous treepie
35. Scaly breasted munia
36. White eyes
37. White-browed Bulbul
38. White-browed Wagtail
39. Yellow wattled lapwing
40. Yellow-billed Babbler

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