Kabini Wild walk/birding (Morning session of Day1)

Shutterbugs in my office been planning for some trip lately where we can use the shutter in fruitful way. Decided we will head to shimmoga to visit sakkare bailu and the other bird sanctuary. Plan to shimmoga got called off for some reason, and i do not regret for that. We decided go hit kabini, thanks to Arun who already visited that place just 2 weeks before. We made sure that we reach kabini early morning, any of among had hardly slept previous day night.

Keeping our eyes open was just hard, with drowsy state, we reached sarai (a coffee day group resort). Sarai is definitely a resort with classy ambiance & amenities  and is best place for early morning photography. All drowsily disappeared just looking at many birds flying by sides in trees, bushes. continued capturing birds for couple of hours, we realized we were hungry, headed to dining, Sarai serves buffet break fast and is just out of world though is little costly. You never see to cost when it comes to hunger ;)

I had rented a 400mm 5.6 prime lens. Till now i was happy with the shots by this lens as i was able to reach the tiny birds with sharpness. Below are some photographs caught at Sarai premises.

White Browed Bulbul.

Spotted Dove (Streptopelia chinensis)

Yellow wagtail Female catching dragon fly.
 
Spot billed ducks. I felt they are very shy.

White Ibis also called as Black Headed Ibis.

Balck Headed Ibis in flight.

Little Egret in flight.

Red Whiskered Bulbul.

Purple rumped Sun Bird Male.

 Male House Sparrow.

Female House Sparrow.

Another shot of red wishkered bulbul.

Yellow wagtail Male. (Male and Female resemble each other very much).

Here we end with Sarai. After having break fast we headed to waterwoods. Water woods is a place on banks of kabini river, mostly is used for domestic cattle feeding, washing clothes. Sun was right above our head, we could sight many birds here as well, some of below which i could catch them. 

Black Headed Gull.

Indian River tern. More shots of river tern with different angles and in flight.

Green Bee eater.

We were done with water woods. at the same time badly needed a place to stretch ourselves.  We headed to Bison resort. I end this writeup with first half of day. Lets continue the real wild walk (Safari) with next part ;)