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:

1. Little Grebe
2. Great Cormorant
3. Little Cormorant
4. Darter
5. Spot-billed Pelican
6. Purple Heron
7. Grey Heron
8. Black-crowned Night Heron
9. Indian Pond-Heron
10. Cattle Egret
11. Median (Intermediate) Egret
12. Little Egret
13. Glossy Ibis
14. Spot-billed Duck
15. Brahminy Kite
16. White-breasted Waterhen
17. Common Moorhen
18. Purple Moorhen
19. Common Coot
20. Bronze-winged Jacana
21. Pheasant-tailed Jacana
22. Spotted Dove
23. Rose-ringed Parakeet
24. Asian Koel
25. White-breasted Kingfisher
26. Small Bee-eater
27. Coppersmith Barbet
28. Lesser Golden-backed (Black-rumped Flameback) Woodpecker
29. White-cheeked Barbet
30. Black Drongo
31. Ashy Woodswallow
32. Common Myna
33. Jungle Myna
34. Indian (Rufous) Treepie
35. Jungle (Large-billed) Crow
36. Red-whiskered Bulbul
37. White-headed (Yellow-billed) Babbler
38. Plain Prinia
39. Ashy Prinia
40. Streaked Fantail-Warbler
41. Pied Bushchat
42. Tickell’s (Pale-billed) Flowerpecker
43. Large Pied (White-browed) Wagtail
44. Purple-rumped Sunbird
45. Spotted (Scaly-breasted) Munia