ML646627820

觀察細節

Record shots attached here.. Sighted it twice, either the same individual or both had been mud bathing. First time when i saw - it was on the road along with Mongolian STLs- mudbathing. As I slowly approached, it flew away. I kept searching for it in the nearby dried paddyfields for 10 min, then got to see it for the second time - sitting on a mound. No movement, no calling, just looking at me carefully as i tried to get close slowly. Unfortunately couldn't get close / any other angle as the Mongolian STLs started flying arbitrarily and this lark too flew away with them.. ID pointers - - Bigger in size, it looked almost double the size of Mongolian STLs when all were mud bathing on the road.. - Upper dark beak & lower pale/yellowish beak.. - Prominent supercilium .. - Black neck band.. - Short tail.. Since this particular individual was mud bathing in the red soil, colour looks completely different. Went to the same location in the evening as well as next morning, but no luck. To sight one lark, when it moves around with hundreds of Mongolian STLs, and they randomly fly around for every 5 seconds in all directions, that too in a dried paddyfields- perfectly camouflage-able area, is nothing but "once in a while kind of luck". Thanks to Ashwin & Sahana for the confirmation.