Hi all,
still hot, still flycatcher food around plus the additional leech. In other words - perfect conditions to stay home! Well, I didn't, so I had to face all of the above obstacles while checking the Valley Trail from Bong Substation. Generally a very quiet day.
En route to Bong a Malayan Night Heron was flushed from the road (unpurposefully!).
Bong itself held not so many birds with 3 Arctic Warblers, a mixed group of Greater Yellownapes and Bay Woodpeckers being the more interesting ones.
The Valley Trail was a bit more birdy. Notable species/numbers were:
about 24(!) Greater Yellownapes along the trail (just a rough guess, maybe more), about 5 Bay Woodpeckers, 1 female Pale-headed Woodpecker, 1 Bar-bellied Pitta (heard only), couple of Limestone Wren Babblers, 2 Rufous-capped Babblers, 1 White-tailed Flycatcher, about 10 Hill Mynas, gazillions of Crow-billed Drongos and Asian Paradise Flycatchers.
And again a Crab-eating Mongoose was seen right at the beginning of the trail and gave excellent views!
4 gunshots were heard, too. Apparently hunters tend to shoot these days more than they trap - no wonder, now that they snared everything (apart from smaller mammals).
Cheers,
Falk
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