Trogon male, wings spread
Originally uploaded by shivanayak.
Durga RF, Karkala
Monday, December 26, 2011
Sunday, December 25, 2011
Woody @ Durga RF
Woody @ Durga RF
Originally uploaded by shivanayak.
It was a pleasant weekend. This winter was good so far, in terms of
weather and birding.
It was another fantastic day with Malabar Trogon, I could get few frames
to fill my frame full !! Working on those, will post soon.
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Marsh harrier ( male ) @ Malyadi, Kundapura
Marsh harrier ( male ) @ Malyadi, Kundapura
Originally uploaded by shivanayak.
Marsh harrier ( male ) @ Malyadi, Kundapura
Friday, December 16, 2011
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Common Stonechat or Siberian Stonechat ( Saxicola maurus ) — at kaup , Karnataka.
Common Stonechat or Siberian Stonechat ( Saxicola maurus ) — at kaup , Karnataka.
Originally uploaded by shivanayak.
Common Stonechat or Siberian Stonechat ( Saxicola maurus ) — at kaup,
Karnataka.
Common Stonechat or Siberian Stonechat ( Saxicola maurus ) — at kaup , Karnataka.
Common Stonechat or Siberian Stonechat ( Saxicola maurus ) — at kaup , Karnataka.
Originally uploaded by shivanayak.
Common Stonechat or Siberian Stonechat ( Saxicola maurus ) — at kaup,
Karnataka.
Monday, December 12, 2011
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Black baza @ Pilarkhan , Udupi, Karnataka
Black baza @ Pilarkhan , Udupi, Karnataka
Originally uploaded by shivanayak.
First sighting for me from this region.
-Shiva
Wednesday, December 07, 2011
Tuesday, December 06, 2011
Thursday, December 01, 2011
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Indian Pitta
Indian Pitta
Originally uploaded by shivanayak.
This small little beauty pops out every winter. I had failed to frame it
so far, for some reason it allowed me to frame it today early morning.
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Monday, November 21, 2011
Another one of this beautiful bird " indian scimitar babbler " ..
Another one of this beautiful bird " indian scimitar babbler " ..
Originally uploaded by shivanayak.
Indian Scimitar Babbler /Pomatorhinus horsfieldii /
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Indian Scimitar Babbler
Indian Scimitar Babbler
Originally uploaded by shivanayak.
This was on my wishlist for quite sometime!
At KNP, 2011_11_20
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Friday, November 18, 2011
Dusky crag martin . 2011_11_13
Dusky crag martin . 2011_11_13
Originally uploaded by shivanayak.
Karkala, Karnataka.
2011_11_13 5pm.
When I was going through some of the frames I had captured successfully,
I was surprised to see the Martin catching an insect. This was in high
fps mode and I was able to capture only two frames. The focus not
sharp, wanted to share the record shots of this incident.
-Shiva
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Bar-tailed Treecreeper ( Certhia himalayana )
Bar-tailed Treecreeper ( Certhia himalayana )
Originally uploaded by shivanayak.
20070311
Satkol, Uttarakhand
Monday, November 14, 2011
Dusky Crag Martin ( Hirundo concolor ) @ Karkala, karnataka
Dusky Crag Martin ( Hirundo concolor ) @ Karkala, karnataka
Originally uploaded by shivanayak.
Dusky Crag Martin /Hirundo concolor
/2011_11_13 @ Karkala, karnataka
-Shiva
Sunday, November 13, 2011
River tern
River tern
Originally uploaded by shivanayak.
Rangantittu, the only place I have seen so far the terns/egrets are so
use to humans presence.
Feb 2010
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Black-crested Bulbul in nest
Black-crested Bulbul in nest
Originally uploaded by shivanayak.
2011_03_05
Durga RF, Karkala, Karnataka.
-Shiva
Wednesday, November 09, 2011
Tuesday, November 08, 2011
Swinhoe's Storm-petrel
Swinhoe's Storm-petrel
Originally uploaded by shivanayak.
Swinhoe's Storm-petrel ( /Oceanodroma monorhis/ )
Swinhoe's Storm-petrel
Swinhoe's Storm-petrel
Originally uploaded by shivanayak.
Swinhoe's Storm-petrel ( /Oceanodroma monorhis/ )
Monday, November 07, 2011
Sunday, November 06, 2011
Saturday, November 05, 2011
ashy drongo
ashy drongo
Originally uploaded by shivanayak.
This was shot after rain the in the evening, 2011_11_05.
Friday, November 04, 2011
Plain Flowerpecker ( Dicaeum concolor )
Plain Flowerpecker ( Dicaeum concolor )
Originally uploaded by shivanayak.
Plain Flowerpecker / Dicaeum concolor /
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Wilson's storm-petrels @ off coast Udupi, karnataka
Wilson's storm-petrels @ off coast Udupi, karnataka
Originally uploaded by shivanayak.
Feeding on the something looked like dead fish. When showed it to fisher
man, he mentioned that its bone of a "Jelly fish"!?
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Day light sea robbery!
Day light sea robbery!
Originally uploaded by shivanayak.
Below is the trip report from good friend Subramanya (Subbu) from
Bangalore, on the same Pelagic bird survey.
We went out to sea again on the third West-coast Pelagic Birding
expedition on October 15-16, 2001, off the coast of Udupi. Thanks to
Shivashankar of Karkala (Shiva) for making excellent
arrangements, that 20 of us could have a great time watching those
species that usually loathe to get anywhere close to the coast. What’s
more?: we were blessed with a calm sea and near fair weather to gawk
at some of unbelievable lifers.
Setting out from Malpe harbour, we traveled about 70Km out into the
sea, stayed overnight - drifting about, as we slept on the boat and
to caught-up with birding next morning at day-break. We were back at
port by about 4.00 pm on 16th October.
Watching those pelagic birds as they materialize within one’s viewing
distance from virtually nowhere in that vast expanse of trackless sea,
where even the ubiquitous fishing boats were a rare sight, was an
exhilarating experience. If you expected that there was a bewildering
array of bird species to gloat over, you are mistaken: we observed
just 11 species and just over 400 of them in all. Our list of birds
sighted and observed on the trip included:
1. Swinhoe's Storm Petrel: encountered first at 10.61 Km from
Malpe Port, 58 birds seen in all during the trip
2. Parasitic Jaeger: first seen at 12.50 Km from the Port, 27
birds in all, with several instances of their marauding attacks on
Great Crested Terns
3. Great Crested Tern: first seen at 16.03 Km from Port, 78 birds in all
4. Bridled Tern: first bird seen at 16.88 km from Port, 95 birds in all
5. Common Tern: 2 birds seen in all, the first one seen at 16.91 Km
6. Wilson's Storm Petrel: 98 birds seen in all during the trip
with the first one encountered at 20.48 Km
7. Masked Booby: Solo seen on the second day when we were about
12.31 Km from Malpe Port. The bird that we observed was a juvenile
with a distinct white collar behind a dark brown head. The bird
departed swiftly with two Skuas in hot pursuit.
8. Gulls : 3 birds identity to be confirmed
Besides, these pelagic birds, we had surprise encounters with three landbirds:
9. Wagtail, unidentified, chanced upon at about 12.50 Km
10. Barn Swallow: 37 birds in all, the first one seen at 18.33 Km
from Maple and individuals seen as far out as 63.65 Km in the sea.
Clearly, these were no wanderers, but migrating individuals flying
across the sea to head landwards.
11. Pipit, an unidentified individual, encountered at 62.59 Km.
And a Bat!!: This medium sized chiropteran was a surprise visitor,
that came from across the sea at about 7.00 am on our way back on 16th
October at 62.58 Km, promptly landed on our boat and traveled all the
way back to Malpe with us. The species is yet to be identified.
Most of us on that fishing boat that took us around in the sea were
armed with cameras and the images of birds that we came across were
taken in thousands in all, with GBs in memory cards tumbling like nine
pins, and they proved to be invaluable in confirming the identity of
several of the birds that passed well away from our boat. A sample of
these images that remind us of some the best birding moments can be
seen at:http://www.flickr.com/photos/shivanayak/sets/72157627787467975;
www.flickr.com/photos/shivanayak/sets/72157627787467975/w...
;http://www.flickr.com/photos/shivanayak/6249658051/in/photostream
What was special in this trip? Not those spectacular aerial chases of
Parasitic Skuas harassing helpless Great Crested Terns, but it was
actually watching Wilson Storm Petrels for the first time, and it was
an unforgettable experience:
Wilson’s Storm Petrel is by far the smallest of our pelagic species
and was the most numerous of all species that we observed. This is a
dark sooty brown bird with a distinct white rump patch. It has short,
rounded wings and long legs that project beyond the square-tail while
in flight. One of Shiva’s photographs captures the underside of the
Wilson's Storm Petrel which clearly shows the dark brown underside:
(www.flickr.com/photos/shivanayak/6249658051/in/photostream/).
The wings look blackish and what is unusual that you observe in this
image is that, the white feathers of the rump appear to spillover and
extend underneath on both sides of the tail base.
This is a species which has long nimble stick-legs that hardly look
strong-enough to support the bird, but they do aid the bird in
pattering along the water surface like the coots, before they get
airborne. Such pattering is very characteristic of the species. As we
noticed in one of Nanda Kumar’s images
(picasaweb.google.com/105864714565942851478/KarnatakaPelag...),
the inner webbing of the bird feet is pale yellowish and that shows–up
clearly even in the reflection in the water: this is something that no
bird fieldguides clearly illustrate.
These petrels were usually seen in ones, twos or in small parties of
up to about 8 birds. Quite often, you see them flocking in small
numbers about a feeding site. From a good distance, they look all
bunched up together, fluttering their wings that are held above their
bodies in a wide-V formation or even holding them near horizontal with
every bird trying to feed on the water surface. At such times, they
look like a group of fluttering mud-puddling butterflies. Also,
while feeding, they appear to remain stationary with rapid fluttering
of wings that gives them a hovering effect, but at other times, their
rapidly fluttering wings keeps them airborne - their feet barely
touching the water as they patter forward. This gives an effect that
these petrels are actually walking on the surface of water - as they
keep dipping their beaks into water to feed on floating food and pick
up small prey which could mostly probably be planktonic
(www.flickr.com/photos/shivanayak/6254465854/in/set-721576...). One of these petrels that we
observed was feeding on what appeared to be dead fish.
Also, this trip yielded three new records for Karnataka- recorded for
the first time off Karnataka coast: Wilson’s Storm Petrel, Swinhoe’s
Storm Petrel and the Masked Booby – which were lifers for me too.
The bunch of us who went sea-faring included: Amit Bandekar , Arun
Nandavar, Dipu K , Ganesh Hebbar, Gopal Bhaskaran, Harsha J, Jayaram
Jahgirdar, Kesavamurthy, N anda Ramesh, Rajesh Shah, Sandeep Murthy,
Seshadri K.S. , Shiva Nayak, Shyamal Laxminarayanan, Sudhir Naik ,
Prasanna Parab, Prashanth Badarinath, Prashanth S ., Vinay Das and
Your’s truly . The trip log with GPS tracking was mainatained right
through by Sudhir Naik .
I just can’t wait to go out into the sea again – Pelagic birding…!!
-Subbu.
Monday, October 24, 2011
Wilson's storm-petrel @ Udupi, Karnataka
Wilson's storm-petrel @ Udupi, Karnataka
Originally uploaded by shivanayak.
Wilson's storm-petrel pattering along the water surface.
Date - 2011_10_15
-Shiva
Monday, October 17, 2011
Arctic skua chasing Great Crested tern
Arctic skua chasing Great Crested tern
Originally uploaded by shivanayak.
Frame #4 of the previous collage of frames..
www.flickr.com/photos/shivanayak/6252966141/in/photostream
Arctic skua chasing Great Crested tern
Arctic skua chasing Great Crested tern
Originally uploaded by shivanayak.
Collage of 6 frames from a fraction of second, the drama of chase . It
was a wonderful to watch these chase.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Masked Booby
Masked Booby
Originally uploaded by shivanayak.
Masked Booby
Second lifer from the off coast Udupi Pelagic .
Wilson's Storm-petrel
Wilson's Storm-petrel
Originally uploaded by shivanayak.
Wilson's Storm-petrel .
Off Udupi coast, Karnataka
Sunday, October 09, 2011
Off coast Mulki
Off coast Mulki
Originally uploaded by shivanayak.
As a part of the continued effort to survey our seas, we
would be going again off-shore from the coast of Udupi on
15th & 16th of October. Given fair weather, we are staying
overnight at sea (anchor in mid-sea) to maximize bird
sightings - as it was done during the recent Kerala Pelagic
survey.
The trip will be on actual cost sharing basis and the
sea-expenses will be approx 1,500 per day: boat hire charges
+ food. You need to reach Udupi and return at your own
expense. Email me for more information shivanayak _at_ gmail.com
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