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| Chilika Lake |
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Orange coloured Sun at the horizon, birds covering the lake and when the boat approaches they fly away covering the sky. This is the Chilika Lake experience. © Mallikarjuna.D.G. Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) organizes Bird Banding programme as the part of ‘Awareness Programme in Ornithology’. I have attended this camp in February 2003. Our ‘ringmaster’, scientist Dr.Balachandran guided us. © Mallikarjuna.D.G. Chilika Lake in Orissa is world’s second largest brackish water lagoon. Bird watchers have identified more than 200 varieties of birds here. It is the largest winter refuge in India for migratory waterfowl. The waterspread area of the lake varies from 1165 to 906 sq.km during the monsoon and summer respectively. It has different habitats such as marshes, mudflats, freshwater, openwater with varying depths, salinity and coastal region and vegetation. The different vegetation types include submergent, emergent, mixed vegetation, reed bed and grassland. © Mallikarjuna.D.G. Going in a boat for bird watching © Mallikarjuna.D.G. Black Headed Gulls © Mallikarjuna.D.G. Sunset at Nalabana island © Mallikarjuna.D.G. Flemingos at Nalabana island. As the Flemingos fly they form a pink line in the sky.
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