Some Unexpected Birding in West Sikkim

�Amma, there is a black, white and red bird!� Samhith exclaimed. He had just ventured to the river , which flowed through the Club Mahindra�s property at Baiguney, Sikkim, and was excited to have seen a bird without me! Shankar, returning after a long walk, said he had seen the bird too. That left me, the only enthusiastic birder among the three of us, to have not seen the bird, during my short walk to the river bed. That had to be rectified, so off I went to the river again, and there it was, sitting on a rock, as if waiting for me.

White Capped Water Redstart

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