A few weekends back, I finally visited a lake that I have been wanting to for a while. Located off Sarjapur Road, Saul Kere is a medium sized lake that is still, thankfully, untouched by the blight of modern development. The natural landscape with abundant greenery on and around the lake is host to numerous species of birds. A checklist of birds I saw over the course of a couple of hours is below:
- Little Grebe
- Great Cormorant
- Little Cormorant
- Darter
- Spot-billed Pelican
- Purple Heron
- Grey Heron
- Black-crowned Night Heron
- Indian Pond-Heron
- Cattle Egret
- Median (Intermediate) Egret
- Little Egret
- Glossy Ibis
- Spot-billed Duck
- Brahminy Kite
- White-breasted Waterhen
- Common Moorhen
- Purple Moorhen
- Common Coot
- Bronze-winged Jacana
- Pheasant-tailed Jacana
- Spotted Dove
- Rose-ringed Parakeet
- Asian Koel
- White-breasted Kingfisher
- Small Bee-eater
- Coppersmith Barbet
- Lesser Golden-backed (Black-rumped Flameback) Woodpecker
- White-cheeked Barbet
- Black Drongo
- Ashy Woodswallow
- Common Myna
- Jungle Myna
- Indian (Rufous) Treepie
- Jungle (Large-billed) Crow
- Red-whiskered Bulbul
- White-headed (Yellow-billed) Babbler
- Plain Prinia
- Ashy Prinia
- Streaked Fantail-Warbler
- Pied Bushchat
- Tickell’s (Pale-billed) Flowerpecker
- Large Pied (White-browed) Wagtail
- Purple-rumped Sunbird
- Spotted (Scaly-breasted) Munia
Sanjay Varma 