Strawberry Agenda

 On Friday the 26th of July, I went out to Malir to help SalB with his book. It is coming beautifully and I am the most excited about it. Can you imagine, a book on birds in Balochi, a regional language? TJ Roberts wish you were here to see it man!

The book needs photographs of some species not yet Photographed by SalB and that is my task for the coming weeks. Hopefully, I will get it done by the end of this week. We were lucky to receive 3 species from Pratik Joshi, a fantastic photographer from the forbidden side of Kutch, Gujarat, India.

Anyways, before we jumped on to our discussion on the bird book, we released 4 pairs of Red munias and a female Black francolin in 2 different sites close to Deh Thano village. The female partridge was very active and ready to scoot and hopefully joins the male we saw on our last view at the same place! The Strawberries as always, were very tired from the journey and scattered in the Elephant grass field in small groups. SadB & SalB saw 3 (2M and 1F) here in peak breeding colors a week back which means either our previous reintroductions have been successful or there still are some local and nearly decimated pairs clinging on. This is very exciting news and I hope these 4 more pairs can supplement the natural stock further.

Both species were purchased from Empress Market National Park, a term coined by ZA.

I wish I had ringed these birds, or well, I wish I had professional bird ringing equipment to ring these birds. I need to make that possible within this year.