I was requested by Irina Ghose and Gopal to conduct a nature/birding walk at Lalbagh for their daughter Divya, who was celebrating her birthday.

I reached there early:

And got in some early-morning images:

This vendor of wheat-grass juice has his own power supply! We gathered most of the group together for a "landmark" shot: And off we went. We started with the commonest of birds, the Blue Rock Pigeon: and the Black Kite (here, a silhouette in the sky): At the lake, we saw a Little Egret and a Purple Heron: A Purple Swamphen: A Common Moorhen: A White-throated Kingfisher looked out over the rose garden. The Spotted Owlets didn't seem too enthused to see me back again with another group: It was very nice to see several of the children jotting down the birds' names: The birds were not the only beautiful things around! Some of the historic structures in the park also seemed lost in green dreams of long ago: In the middle of the cultivated gardens I did find some tiny, exquisite wildflowers. Here's everyone at the end of the walk, they seemed to have had a good time! Divya cut her birthday cake, which attracted a few more children.

I left the children and the adults celebrating in the park, one of the jewels of our city

More photos in the FB album

here

and the eBird list is

here

I do enjoy such walks a lot!