We’ve been in Goa for a week now, staying at the Marinha Dourada hotel near Arpora, and spent most of our time walking to and birding the local sites. We’ve also had a couple of trips out to location less than twenty miles away. Our days start at dawn, around 6.30, when we have our most productive birding seasons before a late breakfast. Then it’s ‘chill time’ over lunch with a beer, raptor watching, and then back out for our late afternoon session until dark, early supper and bed! So far we’ve seen over one hundred and seventy species, many of them ‘world ticks’, with quite a bit of overlap with Thailand, Australia and Britain – the majority being ’self-found’. Tomorrow we go up to Backwoods Camp for some intensive guided jungle birding. Here’s a small selection of the more interesting local birds.
Common Iora
Green Bee-eater
Chestnut-tailed Starling
Indian Roller
Crimson-backed Sunbird
Wire-tailed Swallow
Stork-billed Kingfisher
Brahminy Kite
Red-wattled Lapwing
Lesser Goldenback
Small Minivet
Jerdon’s Leafbird
Jungle Owlet
Oriental Honey Buzzard
Slightly further afield: Bay-backed Shrike
Brown Hawk Owl
Woolly-necked Stork
Pied Kingfisher
and finally, the hard to see Watercock
Hopefully, a further report from Goa on our return from Backwoods.
wonderful images.will come back here for more.Good luck.