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Charakhla

We set out from Porbandar really early in the morning to make it to Charakhla by daybreak. Enroute, in the predawn sky we saw hundreds of mainly Demoiselle cranes off to their foraging grounds …. There were few Common cranes and their flocks were much smaller, no more than 12 to 15.  The Demoiselle flocks numbered upwards of 50 sometimes up to a 100! No pics of those due to the light conditions.

We entered Charakhla through Madhi and relying on our Google research, chose the bund we wanted to drive on… This is the spectacle that met our eyes…….

Most photographs are courtesy my partner...

Gulls at the salt pans

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Seems snowed in !!

Dalmatian Pelican

Greater Flamingoes

Little stint

Rosy or Great White pelicans

Yellow Wagtail

Heuglin's Gulls

Black necked Grebes

Slender Billed Gull

Black necked Grebe

Greater Flamingo

Pied Avocet

Grey Heron

Pied Avocet

Turtle

Curlew Sandpiper

Demoiselle Cranes

Painted Stork