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
