Bird Watching at Pallikaranai Marsh, Chennai

For a long time I wanted to go to Pallikaranai Marsh which is situated near my home.  The marsh was used as a garbage dump, but, now the government banned the dumping of garbage there.  It is now a protected land and a home to a variety of plants and animals.  This site is very famous for its wide diversity of birds.

On 27th April 2015, I was finally going!  Me along with my father and brother started at 5:45 a.m. and went to the marsh by our car.  We stopped at several spots to take pictures of the birds.  We also looked at them through binoculars which enabled clearer vision for us to see birds which were far away.  Here are some of the pictures we took:

Fulvous Whistling Ducks, Black-winged Stilts and Greater Flamingos

Fulvous Whistling Ducks. Black-winged Stilts, Purple Swamphens and Greater Flamingos

The birds seen here are Fulvous Whistling Ducks, Black-winged Stilts, Purple Swamphen and Greater Flamingos (sadly on the other side of the marsh).
Here are more photos:

Purple Swamphen and Common Moorhens

Common Moorhens

 In smaller parts of the marsh we spotted Purple Swamphen and Common Moorhen.

Cattle Egret

Cattle Egrets

Here are some photos of Cattle Egrets.  Other than that I also saw House Crows, Little Cormorants, Common Mynas, Black Drongos, Indian Pond Heron and Grey Heron. 

Overall it was a fun visit, it could've been better if the watch tower was opened, but we still had a lot of fun and this was an experience I will never forget.