Meanwhile in Hangzhou....
I briefly missed the Japanese migrants in Shanghai during this autumn. Spent couple of weekends and early morning weekdays in the "Shanghai outskirt park" for the Waxwing but there were no signs of them. Waxwing is one of those birds which i don't want to miss. So, i wanted to give a try on Hangzhou gardens.
Hoped on to the high speed train and reached the south gate of garden in an hour. The noisy bulbuls reminded my winter day in 2011. As soon as i took the trail to the north gate, saw a pair of Crested Goshawks in their early morning hunting creating a huge havoc among the Grey Treepies, Red-billed Blue Magpie, Mountain, chestnut,black(white-headed ssp), light vented bulbuls.
The shipment of my new binocs is yet to arrive is hard part on birding. Continued my trail to North gate and found some 50 birds perched on the tree top. A shot on those distant birds and zoomed out to see my Japanese Waxwings. Yay, those funky birds were perched on the tree top and busy preening. All those took off when the raptor glided over and came back to the same perch after couple of mins.
I went to the Herbarium where i had good no of birds last year but i found the gate is been secured with three locks:eek!:. Being born n brought up in a democratic country, the first thing i know was trespassing. Jumped over the gate and immediately i saw 8 Chinese bamboo-partridges walking across the garden. Since the garden is been "Secured", it was the most birding spot in the park with a huge flock of Grey-headed Parrotbills, Brownish-flanked Bush Warbler, Tristram's bunting, Yellow-browed Bunting, Yellow-bellied Tits,Oriental Magpie Robin, Japanese thrush and atleast 4 Male Red-flanked Bluetail.
