LESSER SANDPLOVER

Arpora Salt Pans Goa India April 2014

MARSH SANDPIPER

Always odd birds on Arpora Salt Pans.

INDIAN ROLLER

Baga fields, can be encountered any were in Goa on the fields.

WATER RAIL

BOULTHAM MERE taken last weekend

MUTE SWAN

BOULTHAM MERE

MALLARD

BOULTHAM MERE

GADWALL

BOULTHAM MERE

COMMON GULL

BOULTHAM MERE

BLACK HEADED GULL

Boultham Mere

JUNGLE NIGHTJAR

Mayem Lake, this bird was roosting in exactly the same tree as last year.No one knows if they are resident here or not.

POMPADOUR GREEN - GREY FRONTED GREEN PIGEON

Bondla, views have never been this good, normally very flighty. Male in pictures below on right, chestnut undertail obvious in pictures,

PIPIT TREE

Scarce migrant through Goa

ASHY CROWNED SPARROW LARK

A new bird for me in India, taken at Hampi in Karnataka were common around the ruins.