{"id":3798,"date":"2012-03-26T20:07:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T11:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=3798"},"modified":"2014-05-28T23:05:14","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T14:05:14","slug":"uiwang-reservoir-march-24th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=3798","title":{"rendered":"Uiwang Reservoir, March 24"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bird News by Subhojit Chakladar<\/strong><\/p>\n

I surveyed a part of the Uiwang Reservoir (Southern and Western edges) on foot. Though it was bright and sunny, the wind was quite strong, which made it somewhat difficult to photograph and observe the birds that were towards the middle of the lake.<\/p>\n

After a spell of rain towards the end of the week, the rice fields adjoining the reservoir were flooded. Apart from the usual Spot Billed Ducks<\/strong>, there were Eurasian Teals<\/strong> (2), Coots<\/strong> and Gadwalls<\/strong> (~20). There were isolated clusters of waterfowl scattered throughout the lake, almost always in mixed flocks. Close to the island and reed beds in the center of the lake, there were Mallards<\/strong> and around 20 pairs of Northern Shovelers<\/strong>. The Grebes had acquired summer plumage with the Great Crested Grebes<\/strong> (at least 10 pairs in the part of the lake surveyed) engaging in occasional courtship dances. There were 4 Little Grebes<\/strong> on the western part of the lake, also in summer plumage. White Wagtails<\/strong> (leucopsis<\/strong><\/em>) were struggling to fly in the strong winds, as were 3 Grey Herons<\/strong> and a single Great Egret<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Towards late afternoon, a group of Bean Geese<\/strong> noisily flew overhead. In the rice fields on the western side, a Common Buzzard<\/strong> was hunting for its dinner. There were Great Eastern Tits<\/strong>, Marsh Tits<\/strong> and Yellow-throated Buntings<\/strong> in the trees.<\/p>\n

I also had a distant views of a Starling but looking in the direction of the setting sun, made it difficult to ID it with certainty. I took a number of images. It had a moustache with lighter cheek patches, crest and chin. The flanks and underparts were also considerably lighter than the wings. The mantle and scapulars were not uniformly dark. Because I was at an odd angle to it, I could not see the whole profile of the bird. The legs had a somewhat orange hue but it could be due to the light. Are there any lighter morphs for White-cheeked Starling? Or is it another species? <\/strong><\/em>Some images of the bird are shown below.<\/p>\n

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Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis<\/em>. Photo \u00a9 Subhojit Chakladar.<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n

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Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus<\/em>. Photo \u00a9 Subhojit Chakladar.<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n

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Can you identify this starling?<\/em> Photo \u00a9 Subhojit Chakladar.<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n

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Unidentified Starling?<\/em> Photo \u00a9 Subhojit Chakladar.<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n

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Unidentified Starling?<\/em> Photo \u00a9 Subhojit Chakladar.<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bird News by Subhojit Chakladar I surveyed a part of the Uiwang Reservoir (Southern and Western edges) on foot. Though it was bright and sunny, the wind was quite strong, which made it somewhat difficult to photograph and observe the … read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[196],"class_list":["post-3798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-sightings","tag-uiwang-reservoir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3798"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12838,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798\/revisions\/12838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}