Zvezda & Alex BY2022: Back on track

[xelas]

First two birds from India 😜! Goa birding at its best 😆.

 

 

 

[Kitsafari]

welcome back! looking forward to exotic birds!

[xelas]

Not yet back @Kitsafari reporting live from Goa 😀.

[Kitsafari]

18 hours ago, xelas said:

Not yet back @Kitsafari reporting live from Goa 😀.

 

 

[Dave Williams]

Come on Alex, this is hardly live, how’s it going!!!???

 

[Galana]

He is still counting the Bulbuls.

[xelas]

16 hours ago, Dave Williams said:

Come on Alex, this is hardly live, how’s it going!!!???

 

It is hardcore birding from dawn till dusk! No proper food, only 6 hrs to sleep.

[xelas]

13 hours ago, Galana said:

He is still counting the Bulbuls.

Got them all! And they are still coming 😝

[michael-ibk]

But there are some pretty Bulbuls over there! Congratulations on #200, looking forward to your India additions. I really like Kingfisher Beer but I don't think we can allow that. 😉

[xelas]

Our India birding trip has ended! Very positively surprised. Not about every aspect of this country yet its good sides makes us wanting to go back! Soon.

 

Below is the last bird photographed 😁. Sadly while in Tadoba none has been sighted ☹️. This one is from Goa.

 

Edited November 23, 2022 by xelas

[Dave Williams]

India has something of the magical about it and I will return one day hopefully but not while they make it so difficult for us to get a VISA! looking forward to seeing your results.

[TonyQ]

Welcome back @xelas

I see that your latest bird is a different subspecies to the one you posted a bit earlier 

[Dave Williams]

3 minutes ago, TonyQ said:

Welcome back @xelas

I see that your latest bird is a different subspecies to the one you posted a bit earlier 

 

Well spotted Tony. I think they are the same species, the first two were taken having just fledged the nest. The latter is a fully grown adult in full breeding plumage!

[xelas]

First one Lesser second one Greater 🤣. Both ice cold 😋.

[Galana]

On 11/24/2022 at 8:56 PM, xelas said:

First one Lesser second one Greater 🤣. Both ice cold 😋.

I don't care which sub species as long as they migrate into the Jug with the 'andle without too much fuss.

Don't drink and dive.

[Galana]

A week of silence from all on this Shikari. Hope all is well and there are good reasons why we are not seeing anything other than empty Beer bottles and not a whisker of the Tiger(s) and pretty Bulbuls.

 

Let alone a hint of the expected Trip Report(s).

Edited December 2, 2022 by Galana
added text.

[xelas]

The silent on this side is the silent before the storm! We came home with 10000+ photos. I am in process of sorting them, and filling the related birds folders. The first birds for the BY will appear soon. The trip report later. It will be a short one.

[Galana]

Both awaited. With 10,000 it looks like you saw more than bulbuls.

[Soukous]

On 11/12/2022 at 11:38 AM, xelas said:

It is hardcore birding from dawn till dusk! No proper food, only 6 hrs to sleep.

 

Isn't Indian food considered 'proper food'? You seemed to eat a lot of it. 

Edited December 6, 2022 by Soukous

[Soukous]

On 11/23/2022 at 12:00 PM, Dave Williams said:

India has something of the magical about it and I will return one day hopefully but not while they make it so difficult for us to get a VISA! looking forward to seeing your results.

 

Yes indeed, the visa process is currently a nightmare; expensive and time consuming. And all down to Modi's ego

[Soukous]

I can assure you that the Alex & Zvezda tag team worked overtime in India. It was hard trying to keep up with them. Just when I thought I might have caught something they missed I'm reminded there are 2 of them in the hunt, and Alex never stops. Obviously all his training trips with  @michael-ibkhave paid off.

 

[Galana]

5 hours ago, Soukous said:

And all down to Modi's ego

The 'official line' is that it was a Computer programme glitch was an obvious untruth from day one in late 2018 early 2019.

[Peter Connan]

Merry Christmass Alex, Zvezda and Tanya!

[xelas]

Finally I am ready to post birds from our trip to India.

[xelas]

07 & 08 Nov 2022 - Wildflower Villas, Candolim, Goa

 

 

BY 201 / IN 001

Red-vented Bulbul - Pycnonotus cafer

 

 

 

BY 202 / IN 002

Red-whiskered Bulbul - Pycnonotus jocosus

 

 

BY 203 / IN 003

Gray-headed Bulbul - Brachypodius priocephalus

 

 

 

BY 204 / IN 004

House Crow - Corvus splendens

 

 

 

BY 205 / IN 005

Vigors's Sunbird - Aethopyga vigorsii

 

 

 

BY 206 / IN 006

Loten's Sunbird - Cinnyris lotenius

 

 

BY 207 / IN 007

Purple-rumped Sunbird - Leptocoma zeylonica

 

male

 

female

 

 

BY 208 IN 008

Common Tailorbird - Orthotomus sutorius

 

 

 

BY 209 / IN 009

Black-naped Monarch - Hypothymis azurea

 

 

Edited January 1, 2023 by xelas