Another early start saw us back at the lake at first light
in search of the last couple of endemics we still needed for this area. Almost
immediately we were enjoying close views of several
Sulawesi Babblers creeping
around the vines of some trees beside the path on the way down to the lake. A
quick scan of the lakeside vegetation revealed
Small Sparrowhawk,
Streak-headed
Dark-eye,
Black-fronted and
Mountain White-eyes and
Short-tailed Starling. We
then spent the next few hours along the road, trying to find some flocks with
anything new in them, and managed to get better views of
Ashy Woodpecker and
Sulawesi
Leaf-warbler than we’d had before. There were more
Superb Fruit-doves,
Fiery-browed
Starlings,
Cerulean Cuckooshrike,
Piping Crow and others but time passed all
too soon and we had to leave and head back down into the heat of the lowlands
and a lunch stop in Palu before taking the late afternoon flight to Makassar.
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| Note the blue skies |
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| This is the place all birders stay when visiting Lore Lindu |
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This was our base whilst at Lore Lindu - note blue skies!
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