Thattekere, a small village, after Ragihalli is another spot for bird watching. Our idea was to celebrate one of our friends’ Birthday and cover the stretch of Ragihalli up to Thattekere. In most of our visits to Ragihalli, we used to go till the village and come back. But this time, we went ahead and crossed a small water pool(yes, this is how the road is meant to be… else you need to take a longer route) and reached Thattekere. While crossing Ragihalli, we spotted lots of birds. A common tailorbird which comes into the Prinia family and pair of spotted Owlets.
 Common Tailorbird |
 Spotted Owlet Baby |
Advantage of so many visits of Ragihalli is that we have come to know the Kingfisher spot. Don’t know how much true, but Kingfishers can be spotted at the same location. At least in Ragihalli, we have hit ratio of 1:1. A lovely female Parakeet, we spotted.
 Rose-ringed Parakeet Female |
 White throated Kingfisher |
Crossing the stretch of Ragihalli, first time we spotted a Brahminy Starling, a small and a beautiful bird. Bushlark was also screaming loudly in the morning.
 Jerdon's Bushlark |
 Brahminy Starling |
 Eurasian Collared Dove |
 Mourning Dove |
Further ahead we also spotted lots of Black Drongos, Indian Robins and Bushlarks. further a pair of Red rumped Swallows sitting on wire caught our attention.
 Black Drongo |
 Small Blue Kingfisher |
 Black Kite - Working for nest |
 Brahminy Kite in flight, searching food |
 Small green bee eater |
 Indian Robin (Male) |
 Red rumped Swallow |
 Darter(Snake Bird) |
 Red-Whiskered Bulbul |
 Bay-Backed Shrike(back side is Indian Robin 🙂 ) |
 Ashy Drongo |
 Indian Robin- Female |
 Green Bee Eater |
 Brown Shrike |
 River Tern
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 White-Breasted Kingfisher
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A scenic view of Thattekere Lake and a black IBIS :).
Black Ibis
View of Thattekere Lake
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Awesome Show .. Loved the IBIS Picture ..
super alignment ka…. loved it …. Indian Robin Female pic rocks
this looks like an awesome place. Lovely photographs.
Amit, I will suggest you this place.. Noticeable bird places:
1. Before the entrance gate of Ragihalli Road, there is a place on right hand side… quite a open land… (left of which is a road and a house) – Quick check of birds there.
2. That full stretch of Ragihalli Road from Entrance Gate to Exit Gate is cool… thought after the Exit gate, there is a flower land(farm land) on right hand side, just before the village starts. Check out little deep in that road. Kingfisher(White throated, Pied, Parakeet).. and many other birds can be sighted there.
3. Road from Ragihalli upto the place where Priyanka has written you have to cross water stream, that full place is heaven(time around 8.00 AM).
4. Thattekere lake is a big one .. we have almost roam around 1.5 to 2 Km that day. And when you reach to this lake, you will find a temple and just after temple, you can view the lake… initially you will think that other side is not reachable, but it is .. how ? You need to find out 😛
Thanks for the detailed info. Will surely try this place some weekend.
Hi Vaibhav, I dont see Priyanka’s post. can you please tell me Ragihalli to which place there is a cross water stream. Your reply wud be much appreciated as I am planning for a visit next week. Thanks in advance.
super !! 🙂 ..
FYI, Bird list:
Bird List:
Babbler, Yellow Billed
Bee eater, Small Green
Bulbul, Red-vented
Bulbul, Red-whiskered
BushLark, Jerdon
Cormorant, Little
Crow, Jungle
Crow, House
Darter (Snake Bird)
Dove, Spotted
Dove, Collared Turtle
Dove, Mourning
Drongo, Black
Drongo, Ashy
Egret, Small
Egret, Cattle
Heron, Pond
Heron, Grey,
Hoopoe
IBIS, Black
Kite, Black
Kite, Brahimy
Kingfisher, blue
Kingfisher, white throated
Lapwing, Red Wattled
Mynah, Commmon
Mynah, Jungle
Oriole, Golden
Oriole, Black Naped
Owl, Spotted (Baby)
Parakeet, Rose Ringed (Female)
Prinia, Ashy
Shrike, Bay-Backed
Shrike, Brown
Sparrow, House
Sunbird, Purple (Male, Female)
Sunbird, Purple Rumped(Male, Female)
Swallow, Red Rumped
Treepie, Rufous
Tailorbird, Common
Tern, River
Wagtail, Grey
Hi, Thanks for the info. Just visited Ragihalli and Thattekere lake. Unfortunately Thattekere lake is now guarded by forest officials and I was not allowed to shoot there. They said wild elephants are frequenting the lake and one need to have permission from sate forest department to go there for photography. However I had been to that lake earlier and had a great time photographing the birds. Debjit
Hi Vaibbhav/ Debjit Das,
Which is the best month to visit this place ? Is it fine to travel this weekend or the next ?
Debjit, did you spot any birds during the september visit ? Could you post some of the pictures !
Thanks,
Prabu.T
The lake is beautiful, birds are beautiful, the place is beautiful.
@ Amit, yes its a lovely place, nice big open strech.
Nice one di.. And thank you guys for celebrating my bday in different way :D..
Awesome awesome awesome! Loved the small owlet.. 🙂
Dear Birder,
Your photos and birding interest is much appreciated.But disappointing to know about the birth day celebration at such spots.
Take care of your nature.. .
A Homo Sapien
Hi,
The birthday celebration was done keeping in mind we do no harm to nature. Actually uing the word celebration is a little misleading. We basically cut a water melon intead of the regular birthday cake, wished Prathima and continued with our regular stuff. That’s what she meant by “celebrating my bday in different way”.
Sushil
wow beautiful pics… Yes Thattekere Indeed a good place…We spotted a herd of Wild Elephants bathing in Thattekere. !!!!!
Thanks for this. ddn’t know about the place
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