Vulture at Wadi!

Today, after lunch, myself and Swati decided to explore the neighborhood of the new place. As I have written earlier it is surrounded by rich birding ground.

After walking about 500m we were already seeing birds like Yellow wattled lapwing, Red winged Bush lark, Black breasted finch lark, Rain quail….

Well it is their habitat and while other bird watchers have to trek long to see these we realize that we are fortunate – then it happened once again!!

Coming over the horizon I spotted a huge bird flying towards us, Once again I gasped “Vulture” and Swati  said “Can’t be …”

But as it soared above us there was no doubt it was an Indian long billed vulture! Unfortunately this time I did not have a camera 🙁 but I guess this is not the last time, we are on to something  here !

  • I am very ignorant in this area, but is it not extremely rare to have vultures in well-populated areas? The elders usually do not like spotting them coz it means that there is fresh vulture grub around or something.

    • Vultures are now critically endangered… so yes it is *very* rare to spot them this close to city but then thats the uniqueness of Nagpur’s location 🙂

  • Oh, lovely, Tarique, waiting for more posts from you! I am so glad your new home seems so rich in a variety of Creation!