Wooley-necked Stork, Red-naped Ibis, Pheasant-tailed Jacana, Black-winged Stilt, Glossy-Ibis: Along the road from Saltanpur to Bharatpur. Rajasthan, India, March 2023 — Classic road birding. The kind birders love and photographers hate. I mean, the birds are all a mile away…poor views even in binoculars, sometimes at the far reach for a scope…and way beyond hope for a decent photo…the Indian traffic with blarring horns is zipping by inches from your back, and boys on motorbikes (well young men…what is it with these groups of young men on motorbikes in India, three or four to a bike, who apparently have nothing to do but zip around roads and stare at tourists?) gathering to stare, And I suppose we were a spectacle huddled there against the guard rails in the questionable shelter of our bus with our binoculars and cameras up looking out across the flooded fields. Personally I was not sorting shore birds at the far edge…I was looking for closer birds and things I might not see again to photograph. The Wooley-necked Stork (our first sighting), Glossy Ibis, and Black-winged Stilt, we would encounter many times again in our travels (and much closer), but these are my only shots of Pheasant-tailed Jacana and Red-naped Ibis. That is often the way it goes with road-side birding. And we made it safely back into the bus and continued our journey to Bharatpur. Sony Rx10iv at 600mm equivalent. Program mode with my custom birds and wildlife modifications. ISO as needed, f4 @ 1/500th.