Watch No 10 – didn’t care about Leopard this
morning as still on a high from yesterday. So only did an hours watch before
going to breakfast and afterwards we decided to walk back up to Rumbak village.
It seems that none of are fully acclimatised and we are still getting mild
headaches and stuffy noses full of dried blood, which is no doubt exaggerated
by the dry, dusty atmosphere. The walk up to the village is on a slight incline
and we were all out of breath at various points of the walk. But I was glad to
get another view of the Solitary Snipe along the small stream and I even
managed to get a few record photos before it inevitably flew away when a noisy
villager walked past us shouting his head off to someone else in the village.
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| Solitary Snipe |
Around the small fields in the village we came across a group of Tibetan
Partridges and they were rather more confiding than the snipe and showed quite
well.
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| Tibetan Partridges |
There were 8+ Streaked Rosefinches and plenty of Robin Accentors around, but
no Great or Common Rosefinches today. We walked to the far side of the village
and found a Mountain Weasel before Ganesh took us to a homestay in the village
where we had some tea.
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| Mountain Weasel |
A few hours rest around camp was followed by Watch
No 11 – and all we had to show for our efforts were more Blue Sheep.
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| Blue Sheep |
Then we
had another nice meal and a few more beers.
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| The dining tent |
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| Tonight's pizza |
The deal is you are usually
finished eating by 7pm when it’s dark and chilly and there’s nothing to do
apart from chat in the dining tent. You don’t want to go to bed too early
either. Pete says we haven’t come to enjoy ourselves, we’re here to see Snow
Leopard…! And we have!
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