Another day and another mountain – this time Doi Lang. The
continuing feature of this tour is the availability of feeding stations and
there were two here today, the first of these was behind some huts strung along
the road. At first just groups of noisy Dark-backed
Sibias arrived, but soon after a superb Spectacled Barwing appeared and
began to tuck into the fruit put out for the birds. Then a female Himalayan Bluetail flew in, and a male Large Niltava followed soon after. Just
a few hundred metres further along the road at another feeding station, two
normally shy, retiring and extremely skulking White-gorgeted Flycatchers fed out
in the open, along with a pair of Himalayan Bluetails. Overhead a few Cook’s Swifts (recently split from Pacific Swift) flew over. Then Chestnut-crowned Warbler and Black-throated Tit were found which gave nice
views and then we birded along the road for several kilometres finding a
fruiting tree with Crested Finchbill,
Rufous-backed Sibia and Striated Bulbul
present. Other birds seen included groups of Grey-cheeked and Rufous-winged
Fulvettas, Streaked Spiderhunter, Whiskered Yuhina, Brown-throated Treecreeper, Eurasian Jay, Shikra and Mountain
Hawk-eagle. A Black-eared
Shrike-babbler was found before we stopped at a scenic spot along
the ridge where we could look over into Myanmar and countless forested ridges
stretching to the horizon. The afternoon was a little slower so we headed down
the mountain, stopping to view a male Rufous-bellied
Niltava at a stake-out before reaching an open area of paddyfields half way
down the mountain. Here we saw Himalayan
and Grey-faced Buzzards, as well as our first Oriental
Turtle-doves. Further down we found Bronzed
and Spangled Drongos, Grey Treepie and
then did battle with a group of Mountain Bamboo-partridges that despite calling incessantly for 40
minutes only showed to me - but got some cool recordings.
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| White-gorgeted Flycatcher |
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| Himalayan Bluetail |
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| Spectacled Barwing |
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