My Indian trip from December 25th 2013 until January 6th 2014 contained two parts. The first week I visited Golden Triangle and second week I was in Goa. During the trip I photographed about 150 species of birds, 80 species in Golden Triangle and 100 species in Goa, but only 30 species were photographed in both places. The total number of lifers is 69. About half of all photographed birds! Moreover, 9 families and 2 orders (Trogans and Parrots) became the lifers to me. [...... read more ]

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In Goa I and my wife together rested seven days from December 31, 2013 to January 6th, 2014. Mainly we sunbathed on beach therefore I watched birds at odd times only. Nevertheless I photographed more than 60 birds’ species even within the hotel territory (Majora Hotel) and in adjacent areas. Over hotel area I had opportunity to watch and photograph birds only at 3 days: December 31st. In the program “ One Day in Goa” we visited Dudhsagar waterfall, the spices plantation, Old Goa churches and Hindu temples. January 2nd. In the boat excursion by Mandovi river and visiting Carambolim lake. January 4th. One only special birding day. I visited the rice fields and Bondla Park. During the Goa vacation I photographed more than 100 species of birds in total. For now I uploaded to site exactly 100 species but some birds are unidentified and I didn’t sort all photos I shot. So I can’t tell the exact number of photographed species. In my opinion the most interesting birding [...... read more ]

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