2014_241-243_29-31Aug14_Masinagudi Ooty Trip

Date	Op. Time	Cl. Time	Km	Place
28-Aug	6:30	7:45	50	Home > Film City
	18:00	21:00	105	Film City > Srirangapatna (Amblee Resort) Stay + Dinner
29-Aug	5:00	14:00	120	Srirangapatna > Bandipur Safari
	14:00	15:00		Lunch + Rest
	15:00	17:00		Birding @ Masinagudi
				Dinner + Rest
30-Aug	7:00	9:30		Birding + Breakfast
	9:30	15:00	42	Masinagudi > Paykara
	15:00	17:00	42	Paykara > Masinagudi
				Dinner + Rest
31-Aug	7:00	9:30		Birding + Breakfast
	9:30	15:00	22	Moyar River Visit
	15:00	21:00	290	Masinagudi > Home
			671 Km

01.  Yellow-billed Babbler (Turdoides affinis) - Adult
ID by  Richard Grimmett : Have creamy-white lores, forehead and crown, dark mottling on throat and breast (diffusely streaked on most similar Jungle races), pale grey panel on wings, and also (in some birds) pale bluish-white iris.

02. Green Bee-eater (Merops orientalis) - Adult
ID by  Richard Grimmett : Small with elongated central tail feathers, blue or green throat with black gorget, variable golden-brown to rufous crown and nape, and green tail. 

03. Brahminy Starling (Sturnia Pagodarum) - Adult - 21 cm
ID by  Richard Grimmett : Myna-like profile. In flight, shows white sides and tip to dark tail, and uniform wings without white wing patch. Adult has black crest, and rufous-orange sides of head and underparts. Has yellowish bill with blue base, and blue or yellow skin behind eye. Juvenile lacks crest, but has grey-brown cap, paler orange-buff underparts, duller bill and eye-patch. Voice Song is short, gurgling drawn-out cry followed by a bubbling yodel.

04. Red-vented (Bulbul Pycnonotus cafer) - Adult Male - 20 cm
ID by  Richard Grimmett : Short-crested black head, white rump, white-tipped black tail, and red vent. White rump helps separate from other bulbuls in flight. Juvenile has browner head, rufous edges to flight feathers, buffish cast to white rump, and lacks white tips to tail. Considerable subspecies variation, mainly in extent to which black of head reaches onto mantle and breast and in prominence of whitish fringes to feathers of mantle and breast.

05. Pied Bushchat (Saxicola caprata) - Female - 12.5-13 cm
ID by  Richard Grimmett : Male is entirely black except for white rump and patch on wing; duller due to rufous fringes to body in non-breeding and First-winter plumages. Female has dark brown upperparts and rufous-brown underparts, with rufous-orange rump. Females in peninsula and Sri Lanka are darker and more prominently streaked than in North.

06. Pied Bushchat (Saxicola caprata) - Male - 12.5-13 cm
ID by  Richard Grimmett : Male is entirely black except for white rump and patch on wing; duller due to rufous fringes to body in non-breeding and First-winter plumages. Female has dark brown upperparts and rufous-brown underparts, with rufous-orange rump. Females in peninsula and Sri Lanka are darker and more prominently streaked than in North.