31st August 2008 7.15am to 9.30am Rajesh, Jayanthi and I spent a couple of hours at Talawa. The path was really lush with vegetation and alive to the calls of...
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manoj sharma
treeswift
Sep 1, 2008 8:48 am
The existence of dark phase Little Egrets is doubtful. They are supposed to occur in Eastern Africa but it is believed that these are hybrid of Little and...
10205
Mandar Khadilkar
mandar_talks
Sep 1, 2008 11:01 am
Hi, We visited Uran on Saturday and Sunday to see the arrival of Waders and other migratory birds. We saw more no. of birds on Sunday (about 5000) than on...
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Dr. Vaibhav
drvaibhav
Sep 1, 2008 11:15 am
Dear Mandar Hi! We visited Akshi on Friday morning to see status of migrating waders, the flock of Common Tern was there with many Yellow Legged Gulls,...
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Julius Rego
xvr_rego
Sep 1, 2008 2:03 pm
On Sunday 31st Aug, at Rabale MIDC the seasons first Longtailed Shrike and Grey Wagtail was seen. Â julius ... From: Mandar Khadilkar <mandar1773@...> ...
10208
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Sep 1, 2008 2:38 pm
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Sep 1, 2008 2:38 pm
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Debi Goenka
mangrovesindia
Sep 2, 2008 5:16 am
Dear Sangeeta Many thanks for these inputs, and the additional information that we exchanged. I have taken up this very serious issue with Dr Munde, and I am...
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Alok Bhave
alok_bhave
Sep 2, 2008 5:18 am
Hello Kalpana, Nice report. So the waders are back. Last time around 16th August also there were some but only a few of them. In fact in the last month visited...
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ashish gb
gb_85shish
Sep 2, 2008 5:18 am
Dear Girish, Could you please mention if the flamingos you saw were Lesser or Greater Flamingos. If possible what time did you see them and the exact date they...
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raju kasambe
kasambe.raju@...
Sep 2, 2008 5:21 am
Dear All, These are trip reports from Mr. Rohit Chakravarty who had just been to China. Please visit the blogs to feel the truth yourself. Regards, Raju ... ...
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Adesh Shivkar
adeshshivkar
Sep 2, 2008 7:21 am
Dear All, I too would like to add on this issue. We faced ditto situation as mentioned by Dr.Sangeeta. I and Sanal Nair were to lead a nature education walk...
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meghna laghate
megsl82
Sep 2, 2008 7:38 am
Dear friends, We have been getting positive observations from birders that the Waders are here. To enjoy the nature's, yet another season do join CAT in...
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Salil Choksi
sschoksi
Sep 2, 2008 7:52 am
Hi Debi, Adesh, Sangeeta and all, The reason for the FD staff's belligerence is very obvious . Some months ago Bob (Iwan Roberts) and myself were apprehended...
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DPBannerjee
deb_bannerjee
Sep 2, 2008 8:29 am
Hi, Birders, Just an interesting excerpt from an US based Birdwtaching Newsletter. Happy birding DPBannerjee Birdwatching Dot Com newsletter. See it...
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Adesh Shivkar
adeshshivkar
Sep 2, 2008 8:46 am
Dear All, Indeed the migration season has started and the birds are arriving in our region in batches....... offcourse they must be surprised every year they ...
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Ravi Vaidyanathan
ravi_anna
Sep 2, 2008 12:21 pm
Dear All I think i hv written on this extortion too..... we are frequent visitors to Yewoor and the forest officials are never there in the morning when we...
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jitu11in@...
jitu11in
Sep 2, 2008 12:21 pm
Hi sangeeta, Once again after years same story, which our group had witnessed while returning from our Silonda trail, seemed to have been witnessed at Tulsi...
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subu_855
Sep 2, 2008 2:16 pm
Hi Sangeeta, This year on the 15th of August, Natura Outdoors Education Trust had organized a clean up drive at SGNP. There was a decent turnout of 160 people...
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Sunjoy Monga
mumbaibirder@...
Sep 2, 2008 2:50 pm
Hi there, The issue re SGNP and visitors is much the same as with the Dept in general and people anywhere. Everywhere, in and around every PA, there is a...
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Julius Rego
xvr_rego
Sep 2, 2008 4:48 pm
Hi Meghna  I will not be avaliable on 6th as I willbe at Nanaj.  Regards  julius ... From: meghna laghate <megsl82@...> Subject: [birdsofbombay]...
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Sunjoy Monga
mumbaibirder@...
Sep 3, 2008 2:26 am
Sangita ... the arguements can go on and on and on ..... in a nutshell, the time is ripe to have a small team, learn from some of the points already expressed...
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Sunjoy Monga
mumbaibirder@...
Sep 3, 2008 4:12 am
Hi there, Last Sunday, when out with some media and several naturalist colleagues, including herpetologist Vijay Awsare, to the Kanheri area of the National ...
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Dr. Vaibhav
drvaibhav
Sep 3, 2008 4:21 am
Dear Sunjoy Hi! About 3 years ago I had seem Malabar Pied Hornbill at Chikhal Gan at Phansag WLS with Mr. Naik forest guard. Still waiting for it's second...
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Kiran Srivastava
kiranjo@...
Sep 3, 2008 5:47 am
I received a copy of "Loke Wan Tho's Birds", a coffee table book brought out by the BNHS and Oxford University Press. It contains some beautiful photographs...
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Pradnya Shenoy
pradbing
Sep 3, 2008 7:54 am
Hi, Sujit & I had been to talawada, sawantwadi (my native place) for 3 days, from 28th to 31st aug 08. We birded mostly in our mango grove and the neighbouring...
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Dr.Sangeeta Dhanuka
indianwebartist
Sep 3, 2008 4:13 pm
After reading last week's reports, 4 of us (Jayesh Timbadia, Prajit, Uma & me) decided to spend Ganesh Chaturthi at Uran. And what a day it turned out to be!! ...
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Dr.Sangeeta Dhanuka
indianwebartist
Sep 3, 2008 4:13 pm
Sunjoy, as u said, the arguments can go on. I can't comment on why the WWF did not voice its protest, yet I don't agree it is fair to charge students for the...
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prashant bhagat
prashnature
Sep 3, 2008 4:16 pm
hi all well this is d issue which is hard from solving coz it requires peoples interest in doin such forest jobs. forest officials r not concered bout our...
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Shruti Nagar
shrutiwrites
Sep 3, 2008 4:17 pm
Hi! About this off topic... the souvenir shop is still very much there and seems to be run by some private agency, all that I could see in the shop of hoards...
