I did start off to do the lower Jeep
trail, but to get down to it involved a one mile 45 degree path and
if I climbed down that way I would only have to come up again later
in the day, and I’m not sure that I could have made it! I did go
down the first few hundred steps and then I came across the pipeline
trail so took that instead.
Birding was pretty slow but steady
with a perched up Black Eagle, 2 Little Pied Flycatchers, a sizeable
flock of around 140 Himalayan Swiftlets, 6 Short-billed Minivets, 2
Blue-fronted Redstarts, 2 Red-billed Leiothrix, a huge feeding party
of 400+ Whiskered and Rufous-vented Yuhinas, 2 Blue Whistling
Thrushes, 14 Striated Bulbuls, 10 White-throated Laughingthrush, 1
Verditer Flycatcher, 1 Fire-tailed Sunbird and a Red-flanked
Bluetail. But 'bird of the day' must go to a White-gorgeted
Flycatcher that was doing it's thing in some really dense
undergrowth, it was fly catching like a typical Flycatcher, but it
all took place less than a foot off the ground and it's catching
jaunts were sometimes just a matter of inches.
The only other thing of note was a
single Indian Muntjac.
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| Black Eagle |
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| Indian Muntjac |
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| Little Pied Flycatcher |
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| Short-billed Minivet |
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| Whiskered Yuhina |
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| The Pipeline Trail |
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