I've been to Southern India twice now, but neither were birding holidays. The first was to meet the family of my son's...

About 1km from our hotel at Beleza on the Beach there was a small lake known as Betalbatim Lake, which held an interesting array ...

A pair of wire-tailed swallows kept flying around and landing on the wires at Betalbatim Lake. This is a species I really wanted ...

I was picked up at 5:30am by a birding guide and taken to the town of Raynandar about a 40 minute drive from the hotel, to meet a...

Following our boat trip around the mangroves of Dr. Salim Ali Bird Sanctuary, we next headed for the Maina-Raia wetlands. This wa...

Being a wildfowl enthusiast, these were a couple of species that I really wanted to see. Neither are particularly uncommon, but s...

When we stopped off at Singapore on our way to Australia and New Zealand in 2020, there were reports of flocks of openbill stork...

There are several species of sunbird in India and I've already seen a few of them, but this was a new one for me, Vigors's sun...

Photo ©  Aidan Fonseca  www.avocet-peregrine.com I went for a wal...

We've arrived in Goa, a place called Betalbatim, and safe to say that it's chalk and cheese to the other places w...

Last morning in Munnar before we head back to Kochi airport later today, but we had just enough time to do our local walk again....

In the higher regions long-tailed shrike seems to replace brown shrike. I've seen a few but this is about the best I've m...

We hired a taxi for the day and followed the typical tourist route from Munnar to Top Station, stopping at all points in between,...

We've moved accommodation again and are now in the Blanket hotel near Attukad waterfall just outside Munnar. It's a totally dif...

Black-and-orange flycatcher is the iconic Western Ghats endemic that is high on the most wanted list of any birder who visits Mun...

After we left Erivakulam National Park, we called in at a good spot for scimitar babblers, a bird which is so good that it deser...

Anakulam is about 40km west of Munnar and is renowned as an elephant watchpoint. Asian elephants come down to the river in the e...

This crested serpent eagle flew over mid-morning.  Our resident brown shrike continues to show well.

I think I'm going to like it here..... arrived at Flower Valley Plantation homestay near Munnar in the Western Ghats at 3.30p...

The Hotel Seagull is one of our favourite restaurants in Fort Kochi, partly because it's right on the river and has a nice br...