On our visit to the Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary, several birds thrilled us through the day.

this

TAWNY EAGLE

put in a thrilling appearance, and was mobbed by crows:

A distant BAY-BACKED SHRIKE smiled at us: Everywhere there were PIED WAGTAILS: It's only when we see the BLACK-WINGED STILT out of the water, that we see how well-named it is! This GREEN SANDPIPER was cleaning itself: a GREY HERON walked gracefully through the water: several GREAT TITS hopped around: some BRAHMINY STARLINGS sat on a wire. A female and a male PURPLE-RUMPED SUNBIRD appeared: SMALL GREEN BEE-EATERS were around: this INDIAN ROLLER was posing well: BLACK DRONGOS have arrived in force! We listened to the cacaphony of the JUNGLE BABBLERS: Love and grooming go on, side by side! BAYA WEAVERS at their nests: We saw a group of EUROPEAN BEE-EATERS: (taken at high zoom...the idiot birds were far away from the road and we had to beat a path through heavy scrub and fields...still could not get close.) We stopped at a roadside pond in Sathanur: The pond had this BRONZE-WINGED JACANA: COMMON MOORHEN: There were two BRAHMINY KITES eyeing a family of COMMON COOTS chugging through the water, until, at last, one them got one of the babies. until finally, we saw one Kite attack, lift a little one successfully, and fly off... A POND HERON caught a huge fish, and struggled to swallow it: ******************** Several insects and butterflies caught my attention. TAWNY COSTER in the greenery: WHITE ORANGE-TIP: YELLOW ORANGE-TIP: COMMON GULL: CRIMSON ROSE on the Lantana: LEMON PANSY: BLUE TIGER male: SEVEN-SPOT BURNET MOTH: PIERROT: several DRAGONFLIES zipped around: The bird list: Babbler, Jungle Barbet, Coppersmith Barbet, White-cheeked Bee-eater, European Bee-eater, Green Bulbul, Red-vented Bulbul, Red-whiskered Bulbul, White-browed Bushchat, Pied Bushlark, Indian Bushlark, Jerdon's Buzzard, Oriental Honey Cisticola, Zitting Coot, Common Cormorant, Little Coucal, Greater Crow, House Crow, Large-billed(Jungle) Dove, Laughing Dove, Spotted Drongo, Ashy Drongo, Black Duck, Lesser Whistling Eagle, Lesser Fish Eagle, Tawny Egret, Cattle Egret, Little Egret, Intermediate Flowerpecker, Pale-billed Flycatcher, Asian Brown Flycatcher, Asian Paradise Francolin, Grey Grebe, Little Heron, Grey Heron, Indian Pond Jacana, Bronze-winged Kingfisher, White-throated Kite, Black Koel, Asian Lapwing, Red-wattled Lark, Ashy-crowned Sparrow Moorhen, Common Munia,Black-headed Munia, Scaly-breasted Myna, Common Myna, Jungle Oriole, Black-naped Owl, Brown Fish Owlet, Jungle Parakeet, Rose-ringed Pigeon, Blue Rock Pipit, Paddyfield Prinia, Ashy Robin, Indian Robin, Oriental Magpie Roller, Indian Sandpiper, Green Shikra Shrike, Bay-backed Silverbill, Indian Sparrow, House Starling, Brahminy Starling, Rosy Stilt, Black-winged Sunbird, Purple Sunbird, Purple-rumped Swallow, Barn Swallow, Red-rumped Swamphen, Purple(Moorhen) Swift, Common Tailorbird, Common Tern, River Tit, Great Treepie, Rufous Wagtail, White-browed (Pied) Warbler, Greenish (Leaf) Weaver, Baya The six-footer list: Blues, Various Castor, Common Crow, Common Eggfly, Great Emigrant, Common Emigrant, Mottled Gull, Common Jewel, Grass Jezebel, Common Mormon, Blue Mormon, Common Pansy, Chocolate Pansy, Lemon Pierrot, Common Psyche Rose, Common Rose, Crimson Tiger, Blue Tiger, Common Wanderer, Common Yellow, Common Grass Yellow, Three-spot Grass Yellow, Spotless Various Beetles, Bugs, Dragonflies, Damselflies,Moths, Spiders. Mammals list: Boar, Wild Jackal, Indian Mongoose, Indian Squirrel, Grizzled Giant Squirrel, Three-striped Palm

Let me close with this

COMMON WANDERER female:

What a treasure house of creation the Kaveri area is!