It’s celebration time for Mumbai’s birdlovers. They have been rewarded with an upsurge of uncommon bird sightings. Early 2012 saw sightings of the Ashy Minivet that was spotted after 47 years in Mumbai and the Blue-throated Flycatcher that was seen in the region for the very first time. Apart from these, more than half a dozen bird species have been spotted in and around Mumbai during the past month and a half. This coincides with the peak migration period for birds.

Naturalist and Photographer Sunjay Monga at Lokhandwala, Andheri in Mumbai.u00a0Pic/ Pradeep Dhivaru00a0