So many stories are being captured by our enthusiastic residents after Kaikondrahalli Lake was rejuvenated. One such success story is ‘increase of bio-diversity’.
Manjunath Prabhu, a resident of the nearby Sobha Apartments is an enthusiastic bird watcher. Manjunath got into bird photography about a year back. Since then he has captured many of our birds (Residents who follow this blog may have seen his snaps in my previous posts).
Manjunath has found many species of birds at the lake. He keeps sending incredible snaps to us. As he gains experience in photography, we gain watching his snaps 🙂
Green Bee Eater
Malabar Starling
Red Wattled Lapwing
White Browed Wagtail
Yellow Wagtail
Manjunath has listed some of the bird species he has spotted at the lake.
* 3 types of Kingfisher birds – Common Kingfisher, pied kingfisher(black and white) and white throated kingfisher
* Green Bee Eater
* Red Wattled Lapwing
* Paddy Field Pipit
* Black Dorongo
* White Browed Wagtail
* White Wagtail
* Yellow Wagtail
* Jungle Myna
He says there are many aquatic birds too.
He successfully captured few of them recently with his camera:
* Yellow Wagtail
* Green Bee Eater
* Red Wattled Lapwing
* White Browed Wagtail
* Malabar Starling
Now you must be thinking of visiting our neighbourhood Ranganthittu!!! Yes, you can plan a visit. Have a nice time taking your little ones for a morning walk and watch these birds. But I humbly request you to keep the lake surroundings clean as the pain involved in rejuvenating the lake was stupendous. More than six man-months have already been spent by our FORward150 members to bring the lake to a good shape.
Beautification and jogging track works have already started and hope KK Halli lake soon becomes a must visit place for all of South & East Bangaloreans.
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