Whenever one thinks about Srinagar, Dal lake, Shikara boat ride and snow capped mountains afar must come to ones mind. But Srinagar also is a paradise for bird watchers! I was kind of lukcy to visit this beautiful city in december 2021 for a short trip. I ended up experiencing many things where the birding…
Mcleodganj, Near Dharamshala in Kangra Valley of Himachal Pradesh is famous for His Holiness Dalai Lama and as a hill station. It is also famous for Tibetan dwellings as well as Gorkha Dwellings. It is base camp for trekking to Indrahar Pass, Kareri Lake and the amazing Triund Top! Triund Top trek, an easy trek…
While its very difficult to ascertain which are “top X birding destinations or places in Rajasthan’ or in any state, country for that matter, still, it is good to have a list of birding sites, or bird watching places where some other bird watchers have visited and had been happy about it! Rajasthan is a…
Continuing our exploration of backwaters of Jaisamand Lake for bird watching, last week on 7th March 2021, we went to Naya Kuan Village, located at backwaters of Jaisamand lake, also known as Dhebar lake. This location seems to be good bird watching spot for both morning and afternoon. There were many fields where villagers grow…
Jaisamand Lake, also known as Dhebar lake, is the second largest man made lake or artificial lake in Asia and the largest mane made lake in India. It has approx 83KM square area and surrounded by at least 8 villages along its back waters. It gets water from 9 rivers and 99 small ‘nala’ from…
Black Necked Grebe is quite rare bird for Mewar region as its not sighted regularly. But during regular bird watching tour by Vijendra Prakash ( Ace Birder and IndiBirding founder), known as sharp bird spotter among peers, has again sighted this beautiful rarely seen bird at Menar’s Dhund talab in the month of January 2021!…
Udaipur is surrounded by many forests as well as wetlands. Almost every village near Udaipur city in Rajasthan has a lake, small or big. These lakes in in villages host lot of birds, some residents and some migratory birds. One such interesting bird watching location, which has not really got attention from bird watchers Udaipur…
Birding or Bird Watching is an interesting hobby which require a person to travel to distant places, walk in muds, sands and forces one to get up early in the morning! India is blessed with unique bio-diversity where its western part is desert land. Rajasthan is a state which has big National Park without any…
Udaipur is known as lake city in and situated in the Aravali mountain range at the height of approx 1500 feet. Rajasthan state is known to be desert state through out India as well as abroad. But, those who visit Udaipur, they might be pleasantly surprised to find Udaipur all greens! Even during peak of…
We visited Menar, a birding destination in Udaipur, Rajasthan on 15th Jan 2017 with my friends from USA, Tom Piwowarski and his wife, Roselie, my firends Vijendra, Varun and Nirmal in the morning at 6:30AM. We first went to Mangalwar to check out how the wetlands are doing there and if many birds have arrived!…
