I’ve visited this place, Ameenpur lake in 2015, 2016, skipped 2017, 2018 and now in 2019. The place has modified quickly with the peripheral areas minimize up into the plots, constructing already rising and chopping the marshes into smaller areas. There are beer bottles left off from nocturnal social gathering animals, aka Homo Sapiens, parked automobiles blaring loud music and a fish market that has sprung up close by. This Lake inspite of all human exercise attracts a big breeding colony of Gray and Purple Herons, Flamingos and Pelicans in the precise season. Nonetheless, all will not be misplaced, as there may be one other group that’s working additional time to maintain this as a pristine lake and a birders paradise. Firstly, inspite of the actual fact of all of the negativity I’ve written about, a concentrated effort of some devoted environmentalists and birders have gotten it recognised as Biodiversity Heritage Website. Infact it could not be fallacious to say that that is the First physique of water in India to be recognised as a Biodiversity Heritage Website and in addition the primary Biodiversity Website to be authorised in an city space. Secondly, a number of roosting platforms for Pelican have been erected and I used to be thrilled that 5 of twenty or so had been occupied to capability with three to 5 birds roosting on them. Lastly, the factor that touched me was 4 birders, armed with gloves, trash luggage had been cleansing the lakeshore of plastic and the on a regular basis trash that was there. It’s to those unsung heros that I’m dedicating this weblog article too. This can be very troublesome to call all of them as variety of them performed a part- large or small – and there have been quite a few organisations that performed the half too. I bear in mind, Ms Tejdeep Kaur Menon IPS, Director Common of Police, Telangana Particular Safety Drive, organising innumerable instances, cleansing of the lake, after which was this concept of hers to have it declared the biodiversity website. That is the place an incredible contribution got here from Mr Sailu Giani of Telangana State Biodiversity and teams like HBP (Hyderabad Birding Friends), TCPC (Twin Cities Pictures Membership), Deccan Birders (erstwhile BSAP), FOTO chronicles and FOFF (Mates of Flora and Fauna) pitched in to make sure that the lake stays a Birders Paradise. I’m positive that I might have missed out 1,000,000 others. It will even be in place to say the names, the unrecognised heroes whom I noticed cleansing the lake and threatened them to pose for {a photograph}. By the way, they’re all members of Deccan Birders, erstwhile BSAP, a birders membership that I too am a proud member of.
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1. Raghusravan Kumar Railla. 2. Deepanwita Purohit. 3. M. S. Ram. 4. Rama Sravani |
Coming to birding correct. The go to was divided into 4 brief sectors. A small marsh earlier than the lake itself alongside the street resulting in the primary lake itself. These marshes by no means fail to indicate some species that reside together with the marshy, lotus coated lake. The record of all of the birds seen is on the finish of the weblog.
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| Ameenpur lake is the massive one on the highest proper half of the screenshot, the lake being mentioned is together with the observe travelled on the underside left. |
Alongside the street are the bushes with Baya Weavers nests hanging over the water. Sparrows feed on the rice thrown by some good samaritan on the roadside. Bronze-winged Jacanas trot the water lily and lotus leaves. Gray-headed Swamphen together with the chicks was throughout. What I missed right here this time over had been the Pheasant-tailed Jacanas. Bee-eaters, the little inexperienced, had been additionally sallying the water prime in search of the bees and dragonflies.
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| One Inexperienced Bee-eater was maybe not likely eager about consuming any extra – a abdomen filled with bees maybe… |
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| Ashy Prinia close by popped out to take a look at on us… |
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| A Gray-headed Purple Swamphen with a chick foraged close to the street, the world fenced off with a chain-link fence. |
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| A Black-winged Kite sat on wires overhead with a eager curiosity in a patch the place the Prinia was within the bush. It noticed our motion and momentarily appeared in direction of us. |
Subsequent, we went to the primary lake the place we stopped for a while over the place the bund begins. This all the time has been an excellent level for overlooking some attention-grabbing waders, Egrets, Painted Storks.
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| The second spot was virtually a km lengthy bund on the South West of the lake. |
This bund is excessive and an incredible stroll alongside the lake. On one facet are the marshes (sadly being crammed and coated up) the place you see Gray Herons breeding in tons of and a few rice fields which have proved to be nice for Snipes, Rails, Swamphens, Ibis prior to now. This time nonetheless we noticed the Gray Herons, Purple Herons, Black-headed Ibis and Shiny Ibis. If there may be sufficient time then looking for Watercock could be an incredible thought right here. It has been noticed by many, apart from me.
On the opposite facet is the huge and commanding expanse of the lake. This made it potential to scan the complete lake with binoculars and pretty precisely rely the Pelicans and the flamingos.
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| South of the lake is one other pond/lake that is called kingfisher lake. |
This lake has a path working on the sides of the lake that has reeds which can be utilized by Streaked Weavers, a wide range of warblers in good season, Prinia, munia, darter, francolins and lots of extra. In all, we noticed 34 species in about an hour we spent right here. A brief distance away, a observe results in a southern level on the lake that’s utilized by native fishermen to promote their catch. Over the previous few years, an increasing number of folks go to purchase a recent catch of fish and this time the group was larger. Nonetheless, we had an surprising customer who flew in entrance of us to steal a titbit of fish – a Black-crowned Evening Heron. They roost within the bushes close by – however to see it so energetic within the morning and to present us some nice photos – it was a deal with.
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| The ultimate vacation spot was the Northern portion of the lake the place the Pelican Roosting platforms have been erected. |
The observe in blue reveals all the hassle it took us to achieve the Northern spot, there have been some fallacious turns because the tracks had been unpaved at many of the locations and building particles dumped right here and there. Lastly, on reaching the Northern facet, we made an attention-grabbing commentary, all of the platforms that had been comfortably out of attain of shore, in water had been the one ones that the Pelicans had occupied. These on the banks or close to the banks had been all empty. By this time the pelicans that had been fishing/swimming had been roosting. By the point we left this place after about two hours, the pelicans had began hovering within the sky. We additionally noticed the Crimson-naped Ibis, thus seeing all of the three variants of Ibis present in India at totally different locations on this lake itself.
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| Black-headed Ibis with a hidden Purple Heron… |
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| Shiny Ibis had been virtually missed and disregarded until I caught this one close by. |
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| Our Pelicans on the Roost… |
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| As we stared on the Pelicans – Crimson-naped Ibis flew overhead and landed close by… |
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| A Pat of flamingos was close by however extraordinarily range so we stayed at a good distance. |
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| A candid shot of our warriors… |
And right here I shut my weblog with the record of birds seen throughout the half day journey…
Ameenpur Lake, Hyderabad
10-Sep-2019
07:00
Touring
0.64 km
21 Minutes
All birds reported? Sure
Feedback: Submitted from eBird for iOS, model 1.9.3 Construct 13
3 Noticed Dove
6 Gray-headed Swamphen (Purple Swamphen)
1 Crimson-wattled Lapwing
6 Bronze-winged Jacana
2 Little Cormorant
2 Nice Cormorant
4 Nice Egret
11 Cattle Egret
1 Indian Pond-Heron
1 Black-winged Kite (Black-shouldered Kite)
1 Black Kite
3 White-throated Kingfisher
7 Inexperienced Bee-eater
2 Home Crow
1 Ashy Prinia
2 Asian Pied Starling (Pied Myna)
1 Indian Robin
1 Purple Sunbird
20 Baya Weaver
2 Indian Silverbill (White-throated Munia)
10 Home Sparrow
2 White-browed Wagtail (Giant Pied Wagtail)
Variety of Taxa: 22
Ameenpur Lake, Hyderabad
10-Sep-2019
07:30
Touring
0.87 km
22 Minutes
All birds reported? Sure
Feedback: Submitted from eBird for iOS, model 1.9.3 Construct 13
7 Better Flamingo
3 Noticed Dove
5 Eurasian Coot
2 Black-winged Stilt
1 Little Ringed Plover
1 Collared/Oriental Pratincole
12 River Tern
7 Painted Stork
71 Spot-billed Pelican — All had been effectively spaced out within the lake. Counted in progressive line. Rely pretty correct as no birds flying
30 Gray Heron
2 Purple Heron
1 Little Egret
1 Widespread Kingfisher (Small Blue Kingfisher)
1 Pied Kingfisher
1 Widespread Tailorbird
2 Asian Pied Starling (Pied Myna)
1 Pied Bushchat
Variety of Taxa: 17
Close to Kingfisher Pond
10-Sep-2019
08:01
Touring
1.38 km
71 Minutes
All birds reported? Sure
Feedback: Submitted from eBird for iOS, model 1.9.3 Construct 13
2 Lesser Whistling-Duck
4 Indian Spot-billed Duck
4 Indian Peafowl
3 Gray Francolin
2 Little Grebe
2 Laughing Dove (Little Brown Dove)
3 Asian Koel
2 Eurasian Moorhen
3 Eurasian Coot
5 Crimson-wattled Lapwing
1 Painted Stork
1 Oriental Darter
7 Little Cormorant
3 Nice Cormorant
1 Purple Heron
2 Indian Pond-Heron
1 Black-crowned Evening-Heron
1 Black-winged Kite (Black-shouldered Kite)
1 White-throated Kingfisher
1 Pied Kingfisher
7 Inexperienced Bee-eater
13 Home Crow
2 Ashy-crowned Sparrow-Lark (Ashy-crowned Finch-Lark)
3 Ashy Prinia
2 Plain Prinia
2 Crimson-vented Bulbul
7 Widespread Myna
2 Indian Robin
2 Purple-rumped Sunbird
3 Streaked Weaver
6 Indian Silverbill (White-throated Munia)
2 Scaly-breasted Munia (Noticed Munia)
1 Tricolored Munia (Black-headed Munia)
2 White-browed Wagtail (Giant Pied Wagtail)
Variety of Taxa: 34
Ameenpur Lake, Hyderabad
10-Sep-2019
09:30
Touring
9.32 km
101 Minutes
All birds reported? Sure
Feedback: Submitted from eBird for iOS, model 1.9.3 Construct 13
2 Indian Spot-billed Duck
13 Better Flamingo
8 Noticed Dove
5 Laughing Dove (Little Brown Dove)
1 Better Coucal
X Little Swift (Indian Home Swift) — Quite a few
29 Eurasian Coot
11 Gray-headed Swamphen (Purple Swamphen)
24 Black-winged Stilt
32 Crimson-wattled Lapwing
2 Widespread Sandpiper
1 Whiskered Tern
3 River Tern
10 Painted Stork
1 Oriental Darter
6 Nice Cormorant
5 Indian Cormorant (Indian Shag)
41 Spot-billed Pelican
8 Little Egret
10 Cattle Egret
2 Shiny Ibis
3 Black-headed Ibis
7 Crimson-naped Ibis (Indian Black Ibis)
1 White-throated Kingfisher
3 Blue-tailed Bee-eater
7 Black Drongo
1 Widespread Tailorbird
8 Barn Swallow
23 Asian Pied Starling (Pied Myna)
1 Pied Bushchat
3 Scaly-breasted Munia (Noticed Munia)
Variety of Taxa: 31
