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| White Stork |
ID: European
White stork
Location : Pariej
Date: 25/12/2015
Pointers: White
head neck and body with black
wing, red
legs and straight pointed red bill
European White stork (Ciconia ciconia) is tall long necked
wading bird with long bare red legs and straight pointed red bill. White head neck
and body with iridescent black wing and a patch of black skin surrounds the
eyes.
This bird was in my wish list since long time and when i saw
it first time it was like dream come true. One of my Birding friend captured this
beauty at Pariej few days back so we planned to visit it on 25/12/2015 we started
our journey from Ahmedabad and reached at 6 am. We were waiting for some light, so we can captured
some birds around lake. In next one hour we captured some good images of pied kingfisher
and Red Avadavat with golden light and bokeh, after that we went inside the
bird sanctuary. But it was closed at that time so we decided to visit that
water body again. When we reached to water body my friend called me and informed
us that there was 4 white stork near P
ariej Ahmedabad road and that place was
just 2 km away from us. Within a 5 mins we reached to that place and it time
for one more lifer.. “White stork”. There was group of painted stork, 4 white stork, 2 wolley
necked stork, purple heron and egret. We spend almost 3 hours with them and
captured some good images. Amazing thing
is they are so human friendly especially white stork they allowed me get selfie
with them ;)
