It was great not to be in any kind of competitive mode, but to take a lot of people (and children) around, to show them as many birds as possible.

It started with sunrise (each day generally does!)

Here’s our group….5 teams…25 people….

It was delightful to watch a flock of ROSY PASTORS land on the Palash tree to feast on the flowers. The "Zoo Parking Lot RUFOUS-TAILED LARKS" did not disappoint us! A WHITE-BELLIED DRONGO was apparently a lifer for many in the group. I liked the morning light on this LITTLE CORMORANT at the Kingfisher pond. Beautiful raptor alert! Here's team Black Stork, receiving the prizes, that we later gave to a Green Team, because they deserved it more than we did:

If you saw my verse and the cartoon in my last post, here are the perpetrators of the crime:

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