Observations by ragoorao

A regular winter visitor to the slopes of the hill in Mysore.

A Hoopoe, foraging on insect grubs in the grassland.

Large Gray Babbler, trying to locate a gnawing insect grub, inside a rotting tree trunk, by hearing the sound of the grub.

A Striated Heron, uses a dry leaf as bait to lure fish closer. The dry leaf was picked up from a little distance and brought here for baiting. This was done several times until it caught fish.

Winter visitors to this region.

A Male Black-headed Cuckooshrike foraging in a lakeside woodland.

A winter visitor to this hill side.

A rare visitor to this location. Sighted for the first time in this lakeside, deep inside the Urban area.

Was gleaning cobwebs from the tree trunks, probably to use as nesting materiel.

Probably a nesting biu8rd, was trying to distract me away from the nest.

This species in not sighted often here. This juvenile was in a flock of about 12 birds.

This species was sighted for the first time in this lake.

A mother Grebe, carries her three 2 days old chicks on her back, to take them out foraging.

An Eurasian Coot, nest with eggs. A nest that is stationery but floats, being made of hollow and flexible aquatic plants.

A Brown Boobo / Brown Hawk Owl - Ninox scutulata, sighted in thius locality for the first time. Never been sighted inside an Urban area befor this sughting.

A Garden Lizard- Cslotes versicolr, in a tree cavity.

A Little Cormorant hunting fish in a canal, catches a huge one and manages to swallow it.

An Indian Silverbill, taking over an abandoned nest of a Baya Weaver.