Nanmangalam Lake

Nanmangalam Lake

Nanmangalam Reserve Forest and Nanmangalam Lake is one among the many bird watching places found in and around Chennai. The specialty of this place is, it is very near from the heart of the city and is easily reachable. If you are in Chennai and you love Bird watching then you can plan for a bird watching trip to this place.

Nanmangalam Reserved Forest ( after VARDA cyclone)

Bird Watching:

There are many varieties of birds you can spot here since it has both water bodies and forests. The wiki list include,

Indian Robin and Magpie Robin, Common Kingfisher, Pied Kingfisher and White-breasted Kingfisher, Great Horned Owl, Common Iora, Purple-rumped Sunbird, Purple Sunbird and Loten's Sunbird, Spotted Dove and Laughing Dove, Indian Nightjar, Eurasian Stone-curlew (Thick-knee), Ashy Woodswallow, Common Woodshrike, Blue-faced Malkoha, Common Babbler, Red-whiskered Bulbul, Red-vented Bulbul and White-browed bulbul, Oriental Honey Buzzard, White-eyed Buzzard and Shikra.

During the Wintering months Indian Pitta, Rosy Starling, Orange-headed Ground Thrush, Asian Paradise Flycatcher, Asian Brown Flycatcher, Common Kestrel, Booted Eagle, Common Snipe and Blue-tailed Bee-eater.

This place is not like you just step in and spot a bird, you need to really wait with patience. Remember birds are very sensitive and they are very shy and it always keeps themselves away from humans. It’s also good to note that this place is a forest and not a bird sanctuary where you see birds flocking the place. Patience is the most important thing in bird watching, you first try to find a spot where you find more activity and slowly approach the spot. There are good numbers of birds living here which are not usually spotted around where the human population live, so it’s merely your luck and patience that will help spotting these winged beauties.

I was so unlucky that i didn't got an chance to get a bird picture.

Trip Gallary:

Some of the clicks of forest and lake.

 

How to reach there?

This place is located at Tambaram-Velacherry Main road, exactly at around 5.2 kilometrs away from Tambaram railway station in Tambaram-Velacherry Main road. You need to take left and travel around 2 kilometers further on the Sembakkam-Hasthinapuram link road which will lead to the Lake in left of the road and the reserve forest on the right side.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALL THE BEST FOR BIRD SPOTTING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!