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Thursday, October 6, 2011

Birding at Hebbal lake,Bangalore

  Let me tell you about hebbal lake first. It was created by kempegowda way back in 1537. The park is maintained under public-private partnership and the management allows birdwatchers and photographers freely between 6.30 AM to 9.30 AM without any restrictions. So its a very good place for amateurs to learn.
 The habitat is favoured by many species of birds such as the Spot-billed Pelican, Eurasian Spoonbill, Shoveller, Pintail, Garganey, Little Grebe, Coot and Spot-billed Duck. We can also find sandpipers and other waders as well as Purple Moorhens, Purple Herons and Grey Herons in the shallow zone.

Ashy prinia
  Inside the park we can easily spot pale billed flower pecker, parakeets,ashy prinia, great-tit, white eye, kingfisher,tailor bird and all species of sun birds.With a standard zoom lens we can easily take good pictures. Birds inside the park are not at all shy, with little bit of patience we can get close up pictures, these pics are shot with sigma 70-300mm lens without any tripods.
female sun bird
 Make sure that you visit on weekdays to skip weekend photographer crowd, if you want to get suggestions from others, visit on weekends and feel free to talk to others, most of them are kind enough to help the beginners and they will share their tricks and techniques.

Male sun bird
After few visits you will get to know where to wait for, to spot particular species, there are many bird nests inside the park and if you are lucky enough to get the pictures of birds with hatchlings you can walk out of the park proudly with bunch of fabulous pictures. Hebbal lake is noteworthy for bird watchers.

pale billed flower pecker
  Stay tuned for my next post which includes water birds from hebbal lake.

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16 comments:

  1. Excellent shot!!! Lovely pictures and awesome photography.

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  2. Lovely pictures and great photography.

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  3. beautiful pics.. last one looks so innocent

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  4. I just visited the Hebbal lake today to take some scenic pictures, never knew there was so much bird activity..These are really awesome pictures

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  5. thanks prashm. birds are very cooperative too, its pretty easy to make a good framing with little bit of patience.

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  6. Wow..So cute pics..I really like your work. Its fantastic!

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  7. Good and interesting information with nice photos..
    Thanks

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  8. Hi there,

    I am new to birding and this is a very informative post for me. These pictures are lovely and colourful. Vibrant birds in action is a rare view, and I am yet to capture them using my lens, so the post is a good one in the series.

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  9. It's really a great place for amateurs. There are lot's of birds for taking photographs. You have taken awesome picture of the birds. I like all the pictures. Thanks for sharing these amazing pictures.

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  10. It's really lovely images and great photography.

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  11. Hello srivathsa,
    I really love your post on different birds. I love birds alot. I love to see different kind of birds. There are around 10,000 different types of species of birds around world but still its not clear yet. I love your photography too. Thanks for your beautiful post
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