Birds of my backyard in Timila Village (A photo blog)

Birds of my backyard in Timila Village

(A photo blog)

Grey hooded warbler

     I have described the geographical location of Village Timila in many of my blogs.  However, for the new visitors to my blog, I will give a brief description of the destination.  Timila is a nondescript little village situated about 14 Kms. from Ranikhet bazar on the main Ramnagar-Ranikhet State Highway in Tarikhet block.  As the entire belt above the road side on this stretch is reserved forest area, there is quite some greenery albeit a little stealing of wood by the villagers around, especially during the winter seasons.  However, human inhabitation being sparse the jungle has survived and so has the avian species to some extent.  The photographs in this blog have been captured by me during my stays for short duration's of time, during the various seasons spanning from summers, monsoon, autumn, winters and spring and in a vicinity of about 500 meters around my residence.  Hope you enjoy the photographic extravaganza of the avian species seen in and around in Timila village -

Bar tailed tree creeper

Black francolin (female)

Black francolin (male)

Black headed jay

Black throated bushtit

Blue whistling thrush

Chestnut thrush

Chestnut belied nuthatch

Cinerous tit

Common Kingfisher

Fire breasted flower pecker

Great or Himalayan barbet

Green backed tit

Grey bush chat (male)

Grey bush chat (female)

Grey fantail

Grey or Himalayan treepie

Grey winged blackbird

White cheeked or Himalayan Bulbul

Himalayan griffon vulture

Himalayan woodpecker

Hoopoe

Indian paradise flycatcher (female)

Jungle babbler

Khalij pheasant (female)

Khalij pheasant (male)

Oriental white eye

Red beaked blue magpie

Rusty cheeked scimitar babbler

Scaly bellied woodpecker

Spotted turtle dove

Streaked laughing thrush

Verditer flycatcher

Yellow breasted greenfinch