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<blockquote data-quote="PJSharp" data-source="post: 3556303" data-attributes="member: 118519"><p>Well as of 6.30am I am safely back in the UK, a long journey from Bali via HK, but worthwhile.</p><p></p><p><u>Day 12 - Batukaru Temple, Luhur Srijong Temple, Cupel Harbour, and Menjangan Resort</u></p><p>Tuesday 18 April 2017</p><p></p><p>As scheduled my guide for the next three days, Hery Kusumanegera, and his driver Wagini arrived at Sarinbuana Eco-lodge at 6am to pick us up. Lugging our baggage up the entrance steps and getting it loaded into the car delayed us 30 minutes after which we were on our way to Batukaru Temple (Pura Batu Karu). Unfortunately it isn't possible to drive a short cut around the mountain from Sarinbuana to Batukaru, one has to drive a decent way back down before taking another parallel road up.</p><p></p><p>However, our drive took as past many of the rice paddies so characteristic of Bali, and in the early morning these held good numbers of the simply magnificent <strong>Javan Kingfisher</strong> - we had great views of at least seven of these birds, some only a few meters from the car.</p><p></p><p>By 7.30am we were slowly driving up the entrance road to the temple, and had brief views of a stunning <strong>White-crowned Forktail</strong> (we were to get better and prolonged views of 3-4 more of these birds around the temple lake later). </p><p></p><p>Donning the necessary sarong and sash (there are no photos, thankfully), allowed us to enter the temple itself and at the highest clearing we were soon checking through the many birds here. Highlights included a fine male <strong>Black-naped Fruit Dove</strong>, several <strong>Javan Grey-throated White-eye</strong>, zippy <strong>Blood-breasted Flowerpeckers</strong>, good numbers of <strong>Flame-fronted Barbet</strong> and <strong>Grey-cheeked Green Pigeon</strong>, a pair of <strong>Black Eagles</strong> overhead, a <strong>Black-winged Flycatchershrike</strong> and my only <strong>Little Spiderhunter</strong> of the trip.</p><p></p><p>Returning to the main lake we added a (rare for Bali) <strong>Stork-billed Kingfisher</strong>, and nearby the first <strong>Fulvous-breasted Jungle Flycatcher</strong> for the trip. We then headed back down the entrance road on foot, picking up one or two <strong>Little Barbets</strong>, and flying over <strong>Yellow-throated Hanging Parrots</strong> - both only seen here.</p><p></p><p>We were then called back to the temple by Wagini, who had spotted another of the target species here - requiring the speedy re-application of sash and sarong. Before long my wife (who claims not to be a birder) was the first of us to spot the <strong>Javan Whistlingthrush</strong> that Wagini had called us back for.</p><p></p><p>Returning further back down the road we were frustrated by calling but unseen Javan Owlets and a Javan Banded Kingfisher, before conceding defeat and moving on.</p><p></p><p>Our next stop was for lunch at Warung Segara Adi, five minutes away from the coastal cliff edge Luhur Srijong Temple, to be visited after lunch. Before we had ordered we were distracted as Hery heard <strong>Streaked Weaver</strong> calling from nearby palms, where they were actively building nests in response to ripening rice nearby. Amongst the palms was at least one <strong>Asian Glossy Starling</strong> (not seen elsewhere on Bali), and in the adjacent rice paddies we added <strong>Zitting</strong> and <strong>Golden-headed Cisticola</strong> to the trip list. Lunch was good too!</p><p></p><p>At the nearby temple we soon added 6-8 beautiful <strong>Java Sparrows</strong>, a real surprise for me, but responding to the ripening rice nearby apparently. Little else was seen in our short stop here before we drove on for about an hour to Cupel harbour where we had poor views of our first <strong>Javan Plover</strong>, and distant views of a couple of <strong>Black-naped Terns</strong> and half a dozen nearer <strong>Greater Crested Terns</strong>, during a disappointing seawatch.</p><p></p><p>From here we drove on to our resort, stopping briefly nearby to watch <strong>Oriental Honey Buzzard</strong> and then <strong>White-bellied Sea Eagle</strong> soaring over the road. Finally we checked into our luxurious room at the Menjangan about 4.30pm, and went for a swim, during which I was briefly distracted by firsts for the trip in the form of <strong>Zebra Dove</strong> and <strong>Cinereous Tit</strong>. As my wife deserved a break from birding, the rest of the areas birds would have to wait another night at least.</p><p></p><p>Happy birding, Paul</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PJSharp, post: 3556303, member: 118519"] Well as of 6.30am I am safely back in the UK, a long journey from Bali via HK, but worthwhile. [U]Day 12 - Batukaru Temple, Luhur Srijong Temple, Cupel Harbour, and Menjangan Resort[/U] Tuesday 18 April 2017 As scheduled my guide for the next three days, Hery Kusumanegera, and his driver Wagini arrived at Sarinbuana Eco-lodge at 6am to pick us up. Lugging our baggage up the entrance steps and getting it loaded into the car delayed us 30 minutes after which we were on our way to Batukaru Temple (Pura Batu Karu). Unfortunately it isn't possible to drive a short cut around the mountain from Sarinbuana to Batukaru, one has to drive a decent way back down before taking another parallel road up. However, our drive took as past many of the rice paddies so characteristic of Bali, and in the early morning these held good numbers of the simply magnificent [B]Javan Kingfisher[/B] - we had great views of at least seven of these birds, some only a few meters from the car. By 7.30am we were slowly driving up the entrance road to the temple, and had brief views of a stunning [B]White-crowned Forktail[/B] (we were to get better and prolonged views of 3-4 more of these birds around the temple lake later). Donning the necessary sarong and sash (there are no photos, thankfully), allowed us to enter the temple itself and at the highest clearing we were soon checking through the many birds here. Highlights included a fine male [B]Black-naped Fruit Dove[/B], several [B]Javan Grey-throated White-eye[/B], zippy [B]Blood-breasted Flowerpeckers[/B], good numbers of [B]Flame-fronted Barbet[/B] and [B]Grey-cheeked Green Pigeon[/B], a pair of [B]Black Eagles[/B] overhead, a [B]Black-winged Flycatchershrike[/B] and my only [B]Little Spiderhunter[/B] of the trip. Returning to the main lake we added a (rare for Bali) [B]Stork-billed Kingfisher[/B], and nearby the first [B]Fulvous-breasted Jungle Flycatcher[/B] for the trip. We then headed back down the entrance road on foot, picking up one or two [B]Little Barbets[/B], and flying over [B]Yellow-throated Hanging Parrots[/B] - both only seen here. We were then called back to the temple by Wagini, who had spotted another of the target species here - requiring the speedy re-application of sash and sarong. Before long my wife (who claims not to be a birder) was the first of us to spot the [B]Javan Whistlingthrush[/B] that Wagini had called us back for. Returning further back down the road we were frustrated by calling but unseen Javan Owlets and a Javan Banded Kingfisher, before conceding defeat and moving on. Our next stop was for lunch at Warung Segara Adi, five minutes away from the coastal cliff edge Luhur Srijong Temple, to be visited after lunch. Before we had ordered we were distracted as Hery heard [B]Streaked Weaver[/B] calling from nearby palms, where they were actively building nests in response to ripening rice nearby. Amongst the palms was at least one [B]Asian Glossy Starling[/B] (not seen elsewhere on Bali), and in the adjacent rice paddies we added [B]Zitting[/B] and [B]Golden-headed Cisticola[/B] to the trip list. Lunch was good too! At the nearby temple we soon added 6-8 beautiful [B]Java Sparrows[/B], a real surprise for me, but responding to the ripening rice nearby apparently. Little else was seen in our short stop here before we drove on for about an hour to Cupel harbour where we had poor views of our first [B]Javan Plover[/B], and distant views of a couple of [B]Black-naped Terns[/B] and half a dozen nearer [B]Greater Crested Terns[/B], during a disappointing seawatch. From here we drove on to our resort, stopping briefly nearby to watch [B]Oriental Honey Buzzard[/B] and then [B]White-bellied Sea Eagle[/B] soaring over the road. Finally we checked into our luxurious room at the Menjangan about 4.30pm, and went for a swim, during which I was briefly distracted by firsts for the trip in the form of [B]Zebra Dove[/B] and [B]Cinereous Tit[/B]. As my wife deserved a break from birding, the rest of the areas birds would have to wait another night at least. Happy birding, Paul [/QUOTE]
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