It was already getting dark and we were heading back from Mydenahalli. The cloud overcast made it look really beautiful. Suddenly out of nowhere a bird with a light greyish body and black tail came and sat on a rock. It took me a while to realise that I was seeing a Montagu’s Harrier Circus pygargus. It was sitting on a small rock in this open scrub habitat. While we were closely observing them, another Adult male came flying in too. Its sharp eyes gives it a killer look. We tried clicking our cameras but with very low light there was hardly anything that we could do. These two males took off after a few minutes to another small rock but a little far away. We did try looking at it through our binocs and kept patting our luck for being able to sight these migratory raptors. There were only 2 of us in the group of 5 who were birders but the rest of them did look amazed at the variety of birds they could see around. We had decided to look for these two Adult Harriers and tried walking slowly towards that rock so that we don’t disturb them. While we were walking, we saw another one just taking off not very far from us. That was when we realised that there were a whole bunch of them there. As it got darker, the rest of them kept hovering in the sky probably looking out for good stuff for dinner. It had started drizzling and we could see atleast 10 of them hovering in the sky.

That one hour of birding made our day. It was something more than what we could wish for. Soon after this trip, I was off to Kaziranga and I haven’t been able to find time to post these pics. Today I realised that I had lost all of those harrier pics while formatting my system recently. Anyway, I can still remember every moment of that evening :-)