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<blockquote data-quote="Larry Sweetland" data-source="post: 1091477" data-attributes="member: 27337"><p><strong>Emei Shan slight return</strong></p><p></p><p>Sorry about drunken post last night. For the record, Nicky was drunk enough to type in the "I'm a nerd", and I was drunk enough to think "fair enough, let's leave it in."</p><p></p><p>What a day. Don't think I'll give up birding after all.</p><p></p><p>Thrashed the local area upstream for a couple of hours before breakfast still in a bit of a huff and still not scoring much new except a <em>Seicercus</em> sp with not much white in the tail and rather faint greyish coronal stripes. Great. Nice <strong>White-crowned Forktail </strong>though, reminding me that I should do the right thing and join the OBC when I get an address to get the mag sent to.</p><p></p><p>Back for breakfast and off with Nicky on what turned out to be an all day walk via Leyin to Qinying and back. Immediately past Leiyin we came upon a small group of birds shuffling about in the lush veg. The obligatory <strong>Streak-breasted Scimitar-Babblers</strong> were this time acompanied by 3 <strong>Emei Shan </strong><strong>Liocichlas </strong>and 2 blinding <strong>Red-winged Laughingthrushes</strong>. We score ! That would have been enough to put a smile on my face all day but it was just a taste of things to come. Over a ridge and down into more cultivated habitat where we came across a group of 5 <strong>Brown Bullfinches</strong> an a bizarre-looking <strong>Bull-headed Shrike</strong>, far more orange-headed than I had expected this bird to look. We picked up some more good birds, a group of <strong>White-browed Shrike-Babblers</strong> and Nicky plucked a <strong>Speckled </strong><strong><strong>Piculet</strong></strong> from a mixed flock. Then we found another group of <strong>Laughingthrushes</strong>, and <strong>Liocichlas</strong>, this time with 2 <strong><strong>Moustached Laughingthrushes</strong></strong> and 4 or 5 <strong>Red-wingeds</strong>. Cool. Then things got silly. About 500m before Quinying a large group of <strong>Blackbirds</strong> drew us off the trail into an area of second growth with lots of leaf litter. We started flushing <strong>White's Thrushes</strong>, maybe 5 or 6, then became aware that the whole area was filled with the sound of tossing leaves. We had just run into the largest <strong>Laughingthrush </strong> flock I've ever seen, maybe around 200 birds including an associated gang of 30 or so <strong>Grey-headed Parrotbills</strong>. They were mostly <strong>Rusty</strong> and <strong>White-throated</strong> <strong>Laughingthrushes</strong> with a few <strong>Red-winged</strong> too. A truly incredible sight. Emei Shan all is forgiven !! We were elated on arrival at the Quinyin area, where we had the pleasure of watching a <strong>Brown Dipper</strong> swiming around in a surprisingly deep clear pool, diving and looking like a miniature <strong>Guillemot</strong>. Fantastic. We were exhausted and stiff walking home, but just when we thought it was all over, a rummaging in some scrub half way home turned out to be an <strong>Elliot's Laughingthrush</strong>. With a good few <strong>Hwamei</strong> and a group of <strong>White-browed Laughingthrushes</strong> seen earlier that day, that took the days total to an incredible 7 <strong>Laughingthrush </strong> species. What a day.</p><p></p><p>Gradually heading south to Vietnam over the next week, probably won't post for a while.</p><p></p><p>251 White-crowned Forktail</p><p>252 <strong>RED-WINGED LAUGHINGTHRUSH</strong></p><p>253 Brown Bullfinch</p><p>254 <strong>BULL-HEADED SHRIKE</strong></p><p>255 Speckled Piculet</p><p>256 <strong>MOUSTACHED LAUGHINGTHRUSH</strong></p><p>257 White's Thush <strong>(tax ?)</strong></p><p>258 <strong>RUSTY LAUGHINGTHRUSH</strong></p><p>259 White-throated Laughingthrush</p><p>260 Grey-headed Parrotbill</p><p>261 Brown Dipper</p><p>262 Blue-fronted Redstart</p><p>263 Chestnut-bellied Rock Thrush</p><p>264 Black Bulbul</p><p>265 <strong>ELLIOT'S LAUGHINGTHRUSH</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Larry Sweetland, post: 1091477, member: 27337"] [b]Emei Shan slight return[/b] Sorry about drunken post last night. For the record, Nicky was drunk enough to type in the "I'm a nerd", and I was drunk enough to think "fair enough, let's leave it in." What a day. Don't think I'll give up birding after all. Thrashed the local area upstream for a couple of hours before breakfast still in a bit of a huff and still not scoring much new except a [I]Seicercus[/I] sp with not much white in the tail and rather faint greyish coronal stripes. Great. Nice [B]White-crowned Forktail [/B]though, reminding me that I should do the right thing and join the OBC when I get an address to get the mag sent to. Back for breakfast and off with Nicky on what turned out to be an all day walk via Leyin to Qinying and back. Immediately past Leiyin we came upon a small group of birds shuffling about in the lush veg. The obligatory [B]Streak-breasted Scimitar-Babblers[/B] were this time acompanied by 3 [B]Emei Shan [/B][B]Liocichlas [/B]and 2 blinding [B]Red-winged Laughingthrushes[/B]. We score ! That would have been enough to put a smile on my face all day but it was just a taste of things to come. Over a ridge and down into more cultivated habitat where we came across a group of 5 [B]Brown Bullfinches[/B] an a bizarre-looking [B]Bull-headed Shrike[/B], far more orange-headed than I had expected this bird to look. We picked up some more good birds, a group of [B]White-browed Shrike-Babblers[/B] and Nicky plucked a [B]Speckled [/B][B][B]Piculet[/B][/B] from a mixed flock. Then we found another group of [B]Laughingthrushes[/B], and [B]Liocichlas[/B], this time with 2 [B][B]Moustached Laughingthrushes[/B][/B] and 4 or 5 [B]Red-wingeds[/B]. Cool. Then things got silly. About 500m before Quinying a large group of [B]Blackbirds[/B] drew us off the trail into an area of second growth with lots of leaf litter. We started flushing [B]White's Thrushes[/B], maybe 5 or 6, then became aware that the whole area was filled with the sound of tossing leaves. We had just run into the largest [B]Laughingthrush [/B] flock I've ever seen, maybe around 200 birds including an associated gang of 30 or so [B]Grey-headed Parrotbills[/B]. They were mostly [B]Rusty[/B] and [B]White-throated[/B] [B]Laughingthrushes[/B] with a few [B]Red-winged[/B] too. A truly incredible sight. Emei Shan all is forgiven !! We were elated on arrival at the Quinyin area, where we had the pleasure of watching a [B]Brown Dipper[/B] swiming around in a surprisingly deep clear pool, diving and looking like a miniature [B]Guillemot[/B]. Fantastic. We were exhausted and stiff walking home, but just when we thought it was all over, a rummaging in some scrub half way home turned out to be an [B]Elliot's Laughingthrush[/B]. With a good few [B]Hwamei[/B] and a group of [B]White-browed Laughingthrushes[/B] seen earlier that day, that took the days total to an incredible 7 [B]Laughingthrush [/B] species. What a day. Gradually heading south to Vietnam over the next week, probably won't post for a while. 251 White-crowned Forktail 252 [B]RED-WINGED LAUGHINGTHRUSH[/B] 253 Brown Bullfinch 254 [B]BULL-HEADED SHRIKE[/B] 255 Speckled Piculet 256 [B]MOUSTACHED LAUGHINGTHRUSH[/B] 257 White's Thush [B](tax ?)[/B] 258 [B]RUSTY LAUGHINGTHRUSH[/B] 259 White-throated Laughingthrush 260 Grey-headed Parrotbill 261 Brown Dipper 262 Blue-fronted Redstart 263 Chestnut-bellied Rock Thrush 264 Black Bulbul 265 [B]ELLIOT'S LAUGHINGTHRUSH[/B] [/QUOTE]
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