china guy
A taff living in Sichuan
Mike - just watch out for the weather with any trip in this direction!!!!!! We've just had about 12 hours of heavy rain - with a delightful 10 hour of power-cut - this summer has been very wet!!!!
Getting to Hailuogou you have to pass a site where we've seen another bird you've shown interest in - Rufous-tailed Babbler - on the old Erlang Road (west side). We've never been able to show anybody this bird - but we came kind of close this year - while me and 3 guests went walking into a location where I've spotted Snowy-cheeked Nuthatch Meggie had the Babbler fly past in a mixed flock while she waited by the van!!!!!! Needless to say we came back without a Nuthatch sighting and couldn't pick up again on the Babbler!!!!!
Anyways here are some more of our birds from the last couple of trips -
Buff-throated Warbler - from precisely the same site as Rufous-tailed Babbler. The next bird - another rather non-distintive Phylo - Yellow-streaked Warbler - was taken up on the Plateau on the road between Kangding and Yajiang. And a bird that is heard far more than seen - Lesser Cuckoo - this time in a very handsome hepatic plumage.
Tomorrow we're off on new trip - this time carrying rubber rings and life-jackets - but hopefully it ain't going to be that rainy!!!!!
Getting to Hailuogou you have to pass a site where we've seen another bird you've shown interest in - Rufous-tailed Babbler - on the old Erlang Road (west side). We've never been able to show anybody this bird - but we came kind of close this year - while me and 3 guests went walking into a location where I've spotted Snowy-cheeked Nuthatch Meggie had the Babbler fly past in a mixed flock while she waited by the van!!!!!! Needless to say we came back without a Nuthatch sighting and couldn't pick up again on the Babbler!!!!!
Anyways here are some more of our birds from the last couple of trips -
Buff-throated Warbler - from precisely the same site as Rufous-tailed Babbler. The next bird - another rather non-distintive Phylo - Yellow-streaked Warbler - was taken up on the Plateau on the road between Kangding and Yajiang. And a bird that is heard far more than seen - Lesser Cuckoo - this time in a very handsome hepatic plumage.
Tomorrow we're off on new trip - this time carrying rubber rings and life-jackets - but hopefully it ain't going to be that rainy!!!!!