Baihualing - First Morning....

We visited two hides and spent the whole of the day up on the mountain. See the below list of birds seen at each hide, but its difficult to describe the excitement of seeing so many birds at each location as the views are so good and everything is so close. For instance, if you’ve seen Great Barbet before then you know it’s a great bird but to see it here at such close quarters with the light so perfect is a whole new experience. So when a gang of Red-tailed Laughingthrushes comes in to feed, and that’s a bird everyone wants to see, the excitement is palpable amongst the group. Seeing Slender-billed Scimitar-Babbler anywhere is tough, but at a feeding station here, well you just couldn’t imagine the mind-blowing views! The same with Mountain Bamboo-Partridge….

Red-tailed Laughingthrush

Slender-billed Scimitar-Babbler

Mountain Bamboo-Partridge

Hide No 35:

1. 3 Rufous-throated Partridge
2. 4 Mountain Bamboo-Partridge
3. 1 Great Barbet
4. 8+ Ashy Drongo
5. 6+ Crested Finchbill
6. 9 Red-vented Bulbul
7. 10+ Flavescent Bulbul
8. 2 Hill Prinia
9. 4 Black-streaked Scimitar-Babblers
10. 2 Streak-breasted Scimitar-Babblers
11. 1 Slender-billed Scimitar-Babbler
12. Rufous-capped Babbler
13. 10+ Rusty-capped Fulvetta
14. 15+ Yunnan Fulvetta
15. 5+ Blue-winged Laughingthrush
16. 3 Scaly Laughingthrush
17. 6+ Assam Laughingthrush
18. 12+ Red-tailed Laughingthrush
19. 3+ Blue-winged Minla
20. 5 Scarlet-faced Liocichla
21. 9+ Rusty-fronted Barwing
22. 8 Red-billed Leiothrix
23. 14+ Black-headed Sibia
24. 10+ Beautiful Sibia
25. 3 Whiskered Yuhina
26. 1 Long-tailed Thrush
27. 10+ Black-breasted Thrush
28. 10+ Grey-winged Blackbird
29. 1 Eyebrowed Thrush
30. 1 Himalayan Shortwing
31. 1 Himalayan Bluetail
32. 1 Golden Bush-Robin
33. 2 Rufous-gorgeted Flycatcher
34. 3 Large Niltava
35. 1 Chestnut-bellied Rock-Thrush
36. 2 Grey Bushchat
37. Mrs Gould’s Sunbird

Rufous-throated Partridge

Ashy Drongo

Crested Finchbill

Black-streaked Scimitar-Babbler

Blue-winged Laughingthrush

Assam Laughingthrush

Blue-winged Minla

Scalet-faced Liocichla

Rusty-fronted Barwing

Grey-winged Blackbird

Large Niltava

Long-tailed Thrush

Black-breasted Thrush

Eye-browed Thrush

Rufous-gorgeted Flycatcher

Chestnut-bellied Rock-Thrush

Golden Bush-Robin