It’s been a while since I have indulged in my hobby for bird watching. So it was with some excitement that I made my way to Hebbal Lake on Sunday to join the bird watching session organised by Bngbirds every first Sunday of the month at Hebbal Lake, to the north of Bangalore.

Hebbal Lake is a fair distance away from where I live in Bangalore, but thanks to the reasonable efficient bus transport, I was able to reach it comfortably and inexpensively.

It was a cold, quiet morning with surprisingly few people around, even at 7:30 am. We were a diverse group of 10 and observed birds from the periphery of the lake for about a couple of hours.

The list of birds seen:

1. Great Cormorant
2. Little Cormorant
3. Darter
4. Purple Heron
5. Indian Pond Heron
6. Cattle Egret
7. Median Egret
8. Little Egret
9. Oriental White Ibis or Black Headed Ibis
10. Northern Pintail
11. Spot-billed Duck
12. Black Kite
13. Brahminy Kite
14. Shikra
15. Booted Eagle
16. White-breasted Waterhen
17. Purple Moorhen
18. Common Sandpiper
19. Asian Koel
20. White-breasted Kingfisher
21. House Crow
22. Jungle Crow
23. Red-throated (Taiga?) Flycatcher
24. Blyth’s Reed-Warbler
25. Great Tit
26. Tickell’s Flowerpecker
27. Purple-rumped Sunbird