A very fruitful morning at TPK today starting 0745.
welcomed by a huge flock of
scarlet minivets over the sky near the warden's post. followed by a pair of
forktail sunbirds and oriental magpie robinsat the management centre.
entering the
outdoor study garden was the ever-present
blue whistling thrush. just when i thought of leaving the garden a very large bird wave arrives including
japanese white-eyes,
silver eared mesias,
rufous capped babblers,
yellow browed and pallas's leaf warblers, and
chinese bulbuls, each in great number, and among them a
grey headed flycatcher, an
asian brown flycatcher,
grey throated minivet, a couple of
blue winged minla, a
velvet fronted nuthatch,
yellow cheeked tit, and a couple of
great tits, while a
common tailor bird skulks on the ground. they kept me entertained for an hour and at some point many of them came down to the ground after the bugs and came as close as less than 2 metres away from me. i guess they're desparate for breakfast under such cold weather they're too occupied with their feeding frenzy without noticing me. (interesting though nobody else was around in all that time)
heading for the
red/blue trail i met a tourist birder who saw earlier
buff bellied flowerpecker and
black winged cuckoo shrike. the trail was very quiet that we saw only
great tits,
yellow cheeked tit,
chinese bulbuls, yellow browed and pallas's warblers and a couple of others warblers that we couldn't recognize,
white rumped munia, grey headed flycatcher, grey cheeked fulvetta, and plenty of
japanese white-eyes. i spotted a tit sort of bird with unmistakable white cheek and olive back but it lacks any yellow on its underparts so it's not certain if that's a
green backed tit. we also saw this bird which spent us quite some time before we could conclude it's a
mountain bulbul, probably a junvenile.
back to the garden there's no bird wave anymore but most of the birds i saw earlier were there resting among the trees. added to the list was the
chestnut bulbul, a
japanese thrush and a
black naped monarch. saying goodbye to us at the gate was the pack of ever-present
black throated laughingthrush and the voice of a
large billed crow.
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