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Message: <blockquote data-quote="halftwo" data-source="post: 1798189" data-attributes="member: 45720">By the Giant nuthatch site Olive-backed pipits & Dark-back sibias - but no GNs.Time to move on.At the 'Birders Trail' things were even better. No sooner had I stepped off the road & it was all go again. Bianchi's warblers, Puff-throated bulbuls, Hill prinias...etc etc.Not 50mts away a fruiting tree - scimitar babblers were hiding but stepping right into the limelight: SIBE THRUSH - male! A Lesser rufous-headed parrotbill shared the tree! Eyebrowed thrushes - a flock! Up slope I could hear rustling: I crept - making a din, so was surprised to get a glimpse of a f. Silver pheasant (If that's what they still are here!).Within seconds of getting back on the track I flushed two Chinese francolins! Then I flushed a White's thrush! This is a dream, right!?But another mega was seconds away - as I peered up at the thrush - just visible high up - another bird emerged in front of me....   Rufous-bellied niltava. OK she was a she - but a beauty nonetheless.Admiring a Mtn. tailorbird when a Chestnut-crowned laugher hopped down beside me!A pair of Grey-headed canary flycatchers showed constantly as a stream of Laughers - both Chestnut headed & C. crowned were all about.A look around the corner with a stunning mtn view, and more birds instantly in sight. I was well-pleased with a Grey-backed shrike when another bird stunned me again. I had no idea what I was looking at - but I liked it. A lot.SPECTACLED BARWING - what a stunner.A minute later & I was back in the forest exactly as before & a pair of MAROON ORIOLES showed well above. A Verditer too. Back at the start & another look at a little skulker which had elluded me thus far - unlike the Mesias & Hill prinias which just showed off. This time I got good enough views of a Russet bush warbler!Another bird-wave errupted: babblers, bulbuls, fulvettas, warblers, drongos...and a flock of Yellow-cheeked tits!And so it was time to go. One last look at another spot: a Grey bushchat obliged!In about the most consistently birdy & mega-sprinkled episodes I can remember, coupled with easy, for the most-part, viewing, I had clocked up 21 ticks - & had seen many others, and had walked a total of about half a mile!So, I reached the big (well, not that big compared to some of you reading!) 2,000 & well passed it. I'll remember today forever. And I'd like to dedicate it to MrsH who despite everything, knows I can't stop birding.</blockquote>

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