Bird Watching @ Kelambakkam - Muttukadu Backwater

Kelambakkam or Mutukkadu backwaters is located in ECR and is easy to access for Birdwatchers.

Tourist Attractions:

• Muttukadu Boat House
• Bird watching 
• Kovalam Beach

How to reach:

From Chennai- Take any ECR bus(preferably MTC bus that reaches Kovalam or Mahabalipuram).

For Muttukadu Boat house- Get down at Muttukadu boat house bus stop

For Birdwatching

• Muttukadu boat house
• Kelambakkam-Kovalam connecting road
• Fisherman's cove

Note: Kelambakkam-Kovalam conneting road is my favorite place of all the places in Chennai. Morning and evening time are the best time ,where you will have less vehicles passing through without disturbing the birds

Morning time- you can see fisherman fishing in the backwaters.

Concern: There is a School near Kelambakkam-Kovalam junction . Near by is a dump which is worstly polluted and often i could see kids/people who collect plastic or metal parts in that dump. 

Pelicans,Darters, Kingfishers,Open billed Storks are the most commonly seen birds here

Few of my pics

Pelicans