I'm in Kerala, India visiting friends and a large part of it is family based activities, but of course never having been to India before, it's a great opportunity to see some new birds. Today we visited Fort Kochi where the birding highlight was the large numbers of kites and egret. Brahminy kites seem about the most common, but there are also large numbers of black kites.
Black kite.
Egrets were everywhere, eastern great, little and intermediate. Notice
also the diminutive Indian pond herons on the rope.
Eastern great and little egrets.
Indian pond heron.
Indian pond heron.
Black drongo. Note the white dot under the eye at the base of the bill.
Count the kites! This was just a small proportion.
Oriental magpie-robin.
Chinese fishing nets.
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