kittykat23uk
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Thursday 20th March
The two different receptions caused us some difficulty this morning as we waited unsuccessfully for our taxi outside the main reception closest to my room, where we thought we had agreed that the pick up would meet us. We had booked for 6 AM but after waiting 15 minutes we didn't want to delay getting to RDC any further so we ended up walking there, much to the protest of my poor feet!
We returned first to the canopy walkway and the same fruiting tree now attracted an Asian black hornbill. A female fiery minivet added a nice splash of colour to the collection of brown bulbuls that we had picked up thus far and over the course of the morning we added purple-throated and red-throated sunbird, red-billed and Raffles's malkoha (sadly both of these species always seemed to enjoy hanging out on distant vegetation-covered trees). Small birds were represented by green iora, hairy-backed, red-eyed, buff-vented and cream-vented bulbuls, black-winged flycatcher-shrike, orange-bellied flowerpecker, rufous piculet, red and black broadbill, black-naped monarch and Asian paradise flycatcher (white morph). We also spotted a hawk eagle, which I think we decided was probably Wallace's (there are two different hawk eagles which look very much alike, Wallace's and Blythe's, as well as two mimics, honey buzzard and Jerdon's baza).
Below are: Fiery Minivet, Buff-vented Bulbul, Wallace's Hawk Eagle
The two different receptions caused us some difficulty this morning as we waited unsuccessfully for our taxi outside the main reception closest to my room, where we thought we had agreed that the pick up would meet us. We had booked for 6 AM but after waiting 15 minutes we didn't want to delay getting to RDC any further so we ended up walking there, much to the protest of my poor feet!
We returned first to the canopy walkway and the same fruiting tree now attracted an Asian black hornbill. A female fiery minivet added a nice splash of colour to the collection of brown bulbuls that we had picked up thus far and over the course of the morning we added purple-throated and red-throated sunbird, red-billed and Raffles's malkoha (sadly both of these species always seemed to enjoy hanging out on distant vegetation-covered trees). Small birds were represented by green iora, hairy-backed, red-eyed, buff-vented and cream-vented bulbuls, black-winged flycatcher-shrike, orange-bellied flowerpecker, rufous piculet, red and black broadbill, black-naped monarch and Asian paradise flycatcher (white morph). We also spotted a hawk eagle, which I think we decided was probably Wallace's (there are two different hawk eagles which look very much alike, Wallace's and Blythe's, as well as two mimics, honey buzzard and Jerdon's baza).
Below are: Fiery Minivet, Buff-vented Bulbul, Wallace's Hawk Eagle