Srinagar, Kashmir from above

From New Delhi (DEL) Airport to Srinagar (SXR), Flight no: I5 715. 6.000 am arrived at 7:30am
Subhanallah, spectacular view from window of AirAsia India Airplane.

Aerial view of the Himalaya mountain range

Great view

The Sriangar town from above, that yellow patches are a mustard fields in full blossom.

Flowers - Musim Bunga di Kashmir

Spring flowers at Srinagar, Kashmir

Tulip flowers at the Asia’s Largest Tulip garden - the Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip Garden in Srinagar.

Blooming  Mustard Field

wild spring flowers

Apple flowers

wild tulip flowers

above image from Kashmir Tourism website.

Tulip

a stray dog at the Tulip Garden,  and a boy playing with toy excavator

Lidder River, Jhelum and Sind River

at Sonamarg, on the tributary of Jhelum River

Sind River, on the way to Gulmarg

Berwuduk di anak  sungai Jhelum, Baisaran Pahalgam, Kashmir
Man solat picture below by Firdaus Shah

Common Birds of Kashmir

Birding is not main activity while traveling in Kashmir. Just a casual observation, and with only wide angle lenses . (17-40mm f4 and 24-70mm f4 Canon lenses).
Here are the common birds around Srinagar town and garden.

Gagak- Jungle Crow foraging in a flowering apple tree.

Tiung - Common Myna

My first lifers was found at Dal Lake in front if our houseboat - Hooded Crow

Second lifers in the Srinagar Botanical  Garden - Eurasian Jackdaw

Lifer No. 3:  Black Kite

Walk on Water
© Lukáš Pavlačík
Picture from --> https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22696545/111716447

Lifers No 4: Itik -  Little Grebe

 Lifers No 5: Common Moorhen

Lifer No.6 House Sparrow -male , compare to Tree Sparrow at my backyard below
House sparrow - are chunkier, fuller in the chest, with a larger, rounded head, shorter tail
gray heads, white cheeks. ("Dirty" white with black cheeks in tree sparrow)

Lifer No. 7: Tern