A Nature Walk by the banks of TIMBI LAKE...

Place: Timbi Village,Waghodia,Vadodara.
Date: 26th August, 2014.

It was Tuesday’s cloudy, cold morning when I and my colleagues Anjani, Sayani, Hiren, Avnish, Naisargi and Himani headed towards Timbi Lake. 6:30 in the morning when we were all set to leave on our two wheelers only excitement and adventure were the feelings that stroke us. On our way via the Gujarat state Highway we all were not sure whether what all are we going to see or experience there but we had decided only one thing that we’ll spend our day there in that serene, quit, naturally beautified place away from all the materialistic worries of our so called modernized livelihood.
We reached the place by 7 am, parked our vehicles far out there and just started walking through the village and fields observing the best of the God’s creation - The Nature. As we walked through slowly and slowly the zoologists in us came alive and started noticing all the organisms right from small insects to birds till reptiles and mammals. It was so fascinating to hear the calls of various birds flowing all through the air around. Seeing some movements in the lake from far, the curiosity made us wander more and go nearer to the water body. And to our surprise we saw not only pretty water birds but also mammals like cows, buffaloes and bulls swimming and bathing in the lake. Seeing that none of these birds and animals disturbed each other and just happily shared their spaces amazed us (–so called Civilians) the most. And then to add on our adventures one of the bulls went mad observing us so near to lake and charged at us. “Oh God! What do we do now” was what going in our minds at the moment. After running quite far in this mini marathon we realized that one of our companions Himani is missing and there we found her fallen in the small pond near the field. Fortunately she wasn’t injured much but was all drenched with muddy water and experiencing the frogs from quite near. This incident was not just funny but it also left us with some amazing experiences of animal behaviors.
The group which came to Timbi for just a simple bird watching and trekking was now ready to leave the place with some of the amazing experiences, laughter, beautiful bird sighting and a contented day out amidst NATURE, far away from the hustles of city life.
Following is the list of the Birds sighted:
1. White Brested Kingfisher
2. Wire tailed Swallow
3. Red wattled Lapwing
4. Ashy Drongo
5. Green Bee eater
6. Laughing Dove
7. Spotted Dove
8. White ibis
9. Black ibis
10. Little cormorant
11. House Swift
12. Purple Moorhen
13. White breasted Water Hen
14. Cattle egrets
15. Pond Herons
16. Bay Back Shrike
17. Ruddy Shield Duck
18. Common Indian Robin
19. Jungle Crow
20. Jungle Babblers
21. Common Coot
22. Indian Roller