ZOOTHERA BIRDING BLOG

After another leisurely breakfast we left a misty and drizzly Ooty and headed down into the foothills and our next base at the edge ...

We dropped into the Botanical Gardens after a late start and quickly picked up Velvet-fronted Nuthatch and a superb male...

Right before sunrise a few of us were lucky enough to get the Mottled Wood-owl in the scope just as it headed off to roo...

So this was the morning of our attempt for Broad-tailed Grassbird , a hike up the mountain to the rocky, grass covered steep slopes ...

The day got off to a flyer with a pair of really confiding Indian Scimitar-babblers calling back to my ipod before breakfast!  ...