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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MKinHK" data-source="post: 1086566" data-attributes="member: 21760">Chengdu is a great city and Du Fu's Cottage probably the nicest and birdiest park in China. The Bunting is the mega out of this lot and a very good bird.It is likely that all your Red-rumped Swallows were indeed Red-rumps - striated occurs only in Yunnan and its pretty rare there too.Did either of your bush-wrblers go in for tail-cocking accompanied by regular ticking calls? - if so, Brownish-flanked is most likely, as you suggest, especially if you also got a grey supercilium.I envy you Emei - I've had great success there in winter, although its pretty cold, especially higher up.  Its also the best place I've ever been for forktails - Little, Slaty-backed, White-crowned and Spotted all possible and not too difficult. And topping even these the real possibility of Lady Amhert's Pheasant and Temminck's Tragopan!There are not too many species to go for on the top, especially in the snow, but they are pretty good ones - especially if you can find Grey-hooded and Great Parrotbills. I did very well arund the bottom - Fuhu (Emei Liocichla) and Wannian (Golden Parrotbill, Speckled Piculet, Collared Grosbeak, Black-headed Sibia) monasteries (especially the catchment trail to the left of the complex) I remember as being very good, as were the grounds of the Hongzhushan Hotel. I understand this has gone way up-market now, but in 1991 it was a decrepit government-run hotel with horrible outside toilets, although on my first morning there I did get Streak-throated Barwing behind those toilets, and Japanese Waxwing in a tree overhead shortly after sorting out my first ever female Plumbeous Redstart, which was tail-flicking on the roof! The grounds have several lakes and lots of mature trees, so its well worth a visit - and even staying if the budget will stretch to it.Loooking forward to hearing how you get on.Mike</blockquote>

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