ARAI / Vetal Tekdi
ARAI / Vetal Tekdi
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A PLACE THAT NEVER DISAPPOINTS!
Vetal tekdi, a rich ecosystem in the center of the ever growing Pune city and a go to briding place for every birder in Pune. It never stops surprising you. Tekdi is a birding hotspot (https://ebird.org/hotspot/L26390810).
Tekdi has it all dense forest, grass lands, scrubs, abandoned stone quarry that gets filled with water every rainy season. Its has a rich flora-fauna habitat and attract lots of birds resident and migrants. Vetal Tekdi is a place to study insects, plants, butterflies and birds and also photography.
I have been regularly going on Vetal tekdi for birding from November 2020. This is also the place where I got the opportunity to conduct a bird walk for the Pune ladies birders group. Ever growing list of birds recorded by me has now reached 90+ species. You can its my go to place.
You can refer to all time ebird checklist for ARAI / Vetal Tekdi as birding hotspot here https://ebird.org/india/hotspot/L2639081
Indian Peafowl
Common Kingfisher
Spotted Owlet
Little Cormorant
Pied Kingfisher
Yellow Bittern
Shikra
Spotted Billed Duck
Coppersmith barbet
Long tailed shrike
Little Grebe with chick
Golden Oriole
Lesser Cuckoo
Ashy Drongo
Eurasian Wryneck
Asian Brown fly catcher
Rufous Treepie
Yellow Wattled Lapwing
Siberian Stonechat
Indian Roller
Small Minivet
Common Woodshrike
Lesser white throat
Purple Sunbird
Bonelli's eagle
Pulm headed parakeets
White breasted waterhen
Birds clicked since Nov 2020, note photos not added in the order of date clicked and not all clicked photos added here.
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