Another early morning
departure saw up on the dry hillsides above Xining in search of Pale Rosefinch. It took a while but
eventually everybody managed to get on one of two males seen. A Pied Wheatear was also a nice find, and
other commoner birds included Red-billed
Chough, Godlewski’s Bunting, Brown Accentor and Oriental Greenfinch….
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| Brown Accentor |
We
then drove some three hours to Lanzhou and flew to the north-west province of
Xinjiang and the modern city of Urumqi for the final and ,for me, the most
exciting leg of the tour. Bearing in mind the recent terrorist activities I was a little concerned as to what we would face here, but this turned out to be by far the friendliest place I have visited in China.
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