We spent the morning birding the higher elevations and walked quite a way into the Gaoligongshan National Park. The day got off to a flier with crippling views of Grey-bellied Wren-Babbler from a feeding station. There wasn’t a hide, so we just stood in the open watching this crippling endemic feeding at the edge of the forest some 3 metres away from us. Amazing!
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| Grey-bellied Wren-Babbler |
There was also a Grey-capped Woodpecker nearby, along with some Mountain Bulbuls, Blue-fronted Redstart, Rufous-gorgeted Flycatcher and other common species. The track up into the mountains went through great forest, but just as last year, bird activity was slow and over the course of the next 3 hours the only new birds were Hume’s Treecreeper, a flock of Black-faced Warblers, Chinese Leaf Warbler and a large group of Yellow-browed Tits.
Following lunch back at the hotel we drove for around 3 hours to a nice hotel at Tengchong.
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