We've moved accommodation again and are now in the Blanket hotel near Attukad waterfall just outside Munnar. It's a totally different habitat to the last place, much more mountainous, with tree plantations and eucalyptus forests, neither of which are native of course, with both being introduced for different reasons during the British rule of India, but they do at least offer a different suite of birds. One of the commonest birds here is the chestnut-headed bee-eater.
There are plenty of Indian swiftlets and a few dusky crag martins around the hotel, including this bird which landed just below me.
Black eagles are amongst the commonest raptors in the area, alongside crested serpent eagle.
A few shots of the hotel.
Not a bad view from the room!
Blyth's reed warbler is quite a common winter visitor in southern India.
Brown shrikes are also quite common.
White-browed wagtail.
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