With sightings of sandpipers, garganeys and harriers in August at local lakes, can't wait for other arrivals at a couple of freshly "rejuvenated" wetlands around me. With every rain, water levels in these lakes swell, reducing habitat types, not much can be done with how Bangalore has grown, lake habitats have become extremely inconsitent and unreliable for birds in the city. But authorities claim sewage diversion channels have increased capacity now with a promise of letting lesser sewage into these lakes during heavy rains. So, fingers crossed. In video:
1) Barn swallows come in huge flocks to our lakes, here are 2 birds preening.
2) A tickell's leaf warbler, one of the more quiter warblers, but you can't miss that yellow when you see it.
3) A male blue throated blue flycathcer, passes a lake near home like its preprogrammed, in october and April.
4) Yellow wagtail foraging.
5) An unknown tern species. I couldn't get good enough records and so experts couldn't conclude the species. But this bird could've have been a white winged black tern, or is it just a whiskered tern? Either tern would be a great sigting in these lakes now.
6) Garganey flock foraging.