Up and out at 5am, walking alongside the reedbed just down from our camp, seeing several Oriental Reed Warblersand Paddyfield Warblers, both posing quite nicely in the reeds. Both the rail and crake were again heard, but we had nice views of White-naped Cranes, White-winged Terns, Marsh Sandpipers, Swan Geese etc etc.
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| Nice views of Swan Goose this morning |
After breakfast in camp a few of us saw a male Pallas’s Reed Bunting found by iDave before we headed out on the drive to Hustai National Park. Upon arrival we dropped our bags off in the gers before driving quite a way into the park through rolling grass-covered hills.
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| Hustai National Park |
Parking beside a small woodland we began by scouring the rocky hillside for Daurian Partridge without any joy, but had nice views of Meadow Bunting and Amur Falcon. Before getting back to the vehicles for lunch we found a Pallas’s Grasshopper Warbler skulking (as usual) in some bushes. Eventually it flew into the base of a tall bush and showed reasonably well for a change. But a strange place indeed to see this much-wanted species, as it was on migration and heading north to Siberia.
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| Daurian Partridge |
After lunch we walked up the wooded valley, not quite catching up with a phylloscs flock moving fast and away from us, but an Asian Brown Flycatcher was nice. Eventually after much searching Puje located a pair of partridges that we watched in the scope for ages before manoeuvring a lot closer for fantastic views. An Eurasian Hobby was then scoped and a Saker, Golden Eagle and Cinereous Vulture flew over.
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| Przewalski's Horse |
Oh and we did stop to look at a couple of Prezewalski’s Horses as well.
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| Celebrating a great day... |
A good day was rounded off with a delicious hotpot meal and, of course, more beers...!!
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