Visit to pong dam for bird count

Pong dam lake is 300 sq  man mad lake located in Kangara district of Himachal Pradesh.It is declared as wild life sanctuary under wildlife protection act and has been recoganised as Ramser site.GHNP team participated in world count.The whole  wet land has been divided into number of section and each teamof six member started direct count of birds in their alloted section at same time in the morning and collected data which was analysed in the base station.Our team was into deep water.We could spot,tufted ducks,Gerbs,Little and great cormorants,Gerbs and arround 700 bar headed geese ove rancer iland.A iland in pong Dam lake.This time the total count of Bar headed geese had gone upto 36000

It is a place which should be in the list of MUST SEEN category of every bird watcher.....