Baihualing Still...!!

Hide No 11 is the highest feeding station on the mountain and the main targets were Hill Partridge and White-gorgeted Flycatcher, both of which we scored, but the latter is a really scarce bird in these parts. The weather was rainy and cold, so the best place to be was in a hide this morning.

Hill Partridge

1. 5 Hill Partridge
2. 4 Rufous-throated Partridge
3. 1 Mountain Hawk-Eagle
4. 2 Golden-throated Barbet
5. 1 Blyth’s Shrike-Babbler
6. 1 White-throated Fantail
7. 3 Green-backed Tit
8. 4 Yellow-cheeked Tit
9. 3 Mountain Bulbul
10. 1 Buff-barred Warbler
11. 1 Sichuan Leaf Warbler
12. 6+ Grey-throated Babbler
13. 10+ Rufous-capped Babbler
14. 8+ Rusty-capped Fulvetta
15. 27+ Yunnan Fulvetta
16. 30+ Red-tailed Laughingthrush
17. 5 Blue-winged Minla
18. 5 Scarlet-faced Liocichla
19. 15+ Rusty-fronted Barwing
20. 8+ Black-headed Sibia
21. 6+ Beautiful Sibia
22. 5 Chestnut-vented Nuthatch
23. 2 Long-tailed Thrush
24. 5 Black-breasted Thrush
25. 3 Grey-winged Blackbird
26. 1 White-gorgeted Flycatcher
27. 6 Large Niltava
28. 7 Himalayan Bluetail
29. 5+ Rufous-gorgeted Flycatcher
30. 1 Mrs Gould’s Sunbird
31. 1 White Wagtail

Chestnut-vented Nuthatch

Himalayan Bluetail

Long-tailed Thrush

Mountain Bulbul

Red-tailed Laughingthrush and Rufous-throated Partridge

View from the hide

Baihualing - second afternoon

We literally had to tear ourselves away from the morning's hide as we all wanted to see a male Scarlet Finch but we’d already booked Hide No 77 for the afternoon. The highlights from this more open setting was a great little Chestnut-headed Tesia, 3 species of barbet side-by-side, a few Long-tailed Sibias, Chestnut Thrush, another Long-tailed Thrush and a very obliging Streaked Spiderhunter.

1. 4 Rufous-throated Partridge
2. 2 Great Barbet
3. 4 Golden-throated Barbet
4. 1 Blue-throated Barbet
5. 3 Ashy Drongo
6. 2 Yellow-cheeked Tits
7. 1 Chestnut-headed Tesia
8. 2 Buff-barred Warbler
9. 2 Hill Prinia
10. 4+ Rufous-capped Babbler
11. 9+ Rusty-capped Fulvetta
12. 20+ Yunnan Fulvetta
13. 25+ Red-tailed Laughingthrush
14. 12+ Blue-winged Minla
15. 4 Scarlet-faced Liocichla
16. 10+ Rusty-fronted Barwing
17. 9+ Silver-eared Mesia
18. 7+ Black-headed Sibia
19. 10+ Beautiful Sibia
20. 4 Long-tailed Sibia
21. 3+ Whiskered Yuhina
22. 5+ Chestnut-vented Nuthatch
23. 1 Long-tailed Thrush
24. 4 Black-breasted Thrush
25. 1 Chestnut Thrush
26. 3+ Large Niltava
27. 6+ Himalayan Bluetail 
28. 3+ Rufous-gorgeted Flycatcher
29. 2 Orange-bellied Leafbird
30. 2 Black-throated Sunbird
31. 1 Streaked Spiderhunter

Beautiful Sibia

Blue-throated Barbet

Chestnut Thrush

Chestnut-headed Tesia

Golden-throated Barbet

Great, Blue-throated & Golden-throated Barbet

Hill Prinia

Himalayan Bluetail (female)

Long-tailed Sibia

Long-tailed Sibia

Orange-bellied Leafbird

Red-tailed Laughingthrush

Rufous-throated Partridge

Rusty-fronted Barwing

Scarlet-faced Liocichla

Streaked Spiderhunter

Yellow-cheeked Tit

Yunnan Fulvetta

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