Chennai though considered to be an hot city, with its marsh lands and water bodies was able to attract more number of Native and Migratory birds.
Birdwatching is an addiction that pleasures your mind and burns your heart.
Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description. ~W.H. Hudson,Green Mansions
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. ~Robert Lynd, The Blue Lion and Other Essays
Though i am a photography enthusisast ,i got my interest in birdwatching. I am trying to learn more about the bird watching, more importantly bird names. Will try to list the best places for bird watching in Chennai, not necessarily in any order.
Top Birding Places in Chennai:
- Pallikaranai Marsh Land
- Vedanthangal/Karikili Bird Sanctuary
- Pulicat(Pazhaverkadu-TN Border)
- Pulicat(SHAR/Sriharikota in Andra border)
- Kelambakkam/Muthukad back waters
- Sholinganallur Marsh Land (opposite to SIPCOT)
- Chembrambakkam Lake
- Nanmangalam Reserve Forest/Lake
- Siruthavur Lake
- IIT campus
- Theosophical society
Some of my pics at
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tkcliks/sets/72157636464323165/
