Golden Triangle. The 3rd day. Jaipur

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2013-12-27| Gennadiy Dyakin

At 6 am I left hotel to walk and birding. At the first I spotted Rose-ringed Parakeet. But right this moment I noticed the uncharged battery in camera. So I had to go back to the room.

Excursion to Amber Fort. In the park of Amber Fort the Common and Bank Mynas were recorded, Collared Doves flew to watering in fountain. On the stony slope I watched birds look like a Variable Wheatear, but I was not sure to add them to trip-list. There was Ashy Prinia in slope bushes. In Fort’s pond there were four Little Grebes, Moorhen, Red-wattled Lapwings, Black-winged Stilts, White-browed Wagtail.

On Man Sagar Lake I recorded some Indian Pond Herons and Little Egrets, about two dozens of Great Cormorant, House Crows, House Sparrows, Red-wattled Lapwings.

In the city a lot of Rock Pigeons (all birds in “wild” plumage); Collared and Laughing Doves, Common and Bank Mynas, House Crow, Black Kite, House Sparrow, Rose-ringed Parakeet are usual birds. I saw also Swifts and Swallows but couldn't identify them.

In the evening we climbed up to the hill over the city. In the hill-top there is the little altar with the scattered seeds. A lot of birds were pecking this seeds under altar. I noticed Chestnut-shouldered Petronias, Indian Chats, Large Gray and Jungle Babblers, Rufous Treepies, Red-vented Bulbuls, bird look like Partridge (not identified), Tits on fountain, and one unknown Leaf Warbler. On the way noticed Peacocks, Drongo. Over the hill 3 Crested Honey-Buzzards and Common Buzzard soared.

So, today I recorded about 30 species, including 4 Lifers.

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