I was picked up at 5:30am by a birding guide and taken to the town of
Raynandar about a 40 minute drive from the hotel, to meet a ferry at 6:15am
which would take us over to Dr. Salim Ali Bird Sanctuary. From there we had
another short drive to a small harbour where we took another much smaller boat
and spent a couple of hours touring around the mangrove swamps looking for
birds.
The star attraction is the collared kingfisher of which there are only about
30 or so left in Goa. We managed to see about five, plus other kingfishers
such as stork-billed and the ubiquitous white-throated. Other new birds today
included lesser adjutant stork, spot-breasted fantail and orange-breasted
green pigeon. Also white-bellied sea eagle.
Lesser adjutant, a major target species for me before the holiday.
Striated heron.
Black-crowned night heron.
Oriental darter.
Brahminy kites.
It was a very low tide and the boatsman had to wade out knee deep in the mud to push us off.
The ferry.
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