Baihualing - second morning

We visited Hide No 33 this morning, that’s the famous Scarlet Finch hide. It’s a walk of approx. 800m down into the valley and boy what a morning we had from 8am – 1.30pm with stand-out highlights being 2 female Scarlet Finches that were almost the first birds we saw, a superb and stonking White’s Thrush and a pair of Slender-billed Scimitar-Babblers. 

Scarlet Finch (female)

Slender-billed Scimitar-Babbler

Again, the sheer number, variety and volume of birds was breath-taking.

1. Banded Bay Cuckoo
2. 2 Great Barbet
3. 3 Greater Yellownape
4. 1 Bay Woodpecker
5. 30+ Long-tailed Broadbills
6. 3 White-bellied Erpornis
7. 1 Bronzed Drongo
8. 4 Yellow-cheeked Tits
9. 2+ green-backed Tits
10. 24+ Striated Bulbuls
11. 5+ Mountain Bulbuls
12. 1 Buff-barred Warbler
13. 1 Sichuan Leaf Warbler
14. 2 Slender-billed Scimitar-Babbler
15. 2 Grey-throated Babbler
16. 5+ Rufous-capped Babbler
17. 2 Golden Babbler
18. 30+ Yunnan Fulvetta 
19. 2 Blue-winged Laughingthrush
20. 45+ Red-tailed Laughingthrush
21. 50+ Blue-winged Minla
22. 7+ Scarlet-faced Liocichla
23. 12+ Rusty-fronted Barwing
24. 35+ Silver-eared Mesia
25. 5 Black-headed Sibia
26. 11+ Beautiful Sibia
27. 5 Whiskered Yuhina
28. 35+ Oriental White-eye
29. 6+ Chestnut-vented Nuthatch
30. 1 White’s Thrush
31. 7 Black-breasted Thrush
32. 12+ Grey-winged Blackbird
33. 2 Rufous-bellied Niltava
34. 1 Small Niltava
35. 5+ Large Niltava
36. 4 Himalayan Bluetail
37. 1 Blue Whistling Thrush
38. 2+ Rufous-gorgeted Flycatcher
39. 2 Chestnut-bellied Rock-Thrush
40. 2 Scarlet Finch

Bath time for Blue-winged Minla and Japanese White-eyes

Blue-winged Laughingthrush

Golden Babbler

Great Barbet

Greater Yellownape

Grey-winged Blackbird

Himalayan Bluetail

Mountain Bulbul

Red-tailed Laughingthrushes

Rufous-bellied Niltava

Rusty-capped Fulvetta

Silver-eared Mesia

Small Niltava

Scaly Thrush