We had one last morning on Doi Inthanon, so returned to our
favourite trail just after first light and spent the next few hours having a
very enjoyable time amidst some very nice forest. We hit a flock almost
immediately with all the usual suspects present and also added a female Vivid Niltava to the list as well. We
messed around with a group of White-necked Laughingthrushes that called back to
the ipod a little bit but didn’t want to show themselves and also saw a few
previously seen species as well. We moved up to an area of pine trees and here
we spotted a Silver-eared Mesia
feeding in a tree at eye-level and it turned out to be the leader of a flock of
maybe 7 or 8 birds.
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| Nice scenery on Doi Inthanon |
Then we walked out above the treeline and checked the scrub
where we had a flyby Rusty-cheeked
Scimitar-babbler, female Siberian
Rubythroat, a Streaked Spiderhunter
and also managed to call in a Banded Bay Cuckoo from about a mile away.
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| Banded Bay Cuckoo |
So we
walked back down to the minibus and returned to the lodge, where after loading
the luggage aboard managed to finally see the reported Lesser Shortwing – yayyyy! All that was left was to have lunch,
drive back to Chiang Mai airport and fly to Bangkok for the night.
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