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16 September 2010

Lenin Park, Hanoi

Hi all,

this morning (16th September) a walk through the northern and eastern parts of the park (including toilets, of course) produced the following - as always amongst others: at least 3 Dark-sided Flycatchers, 3 Asian Brown Flycatchers, 2 Yellow-rumped Flycatchers (1 female-type, 1 first year male), 1 probable male Hainan Blue Flycatcher, 8 or more Arctic Warblers (with one bird being confusingly brownish-colored on the back), about 30 - 40 Purple-backed Starlings still in the fruiting tree Florian has marked on his map.
Cheers,
Florian, Falk

And at lunch in the botanical gardens there was 1 Asian Brown Flycatcher, 2 Brown Shrikes and 1 Arctic Warbler.
Simon

And a Verditer Fly in the Lenin Park, the one seen yesterday by Florian. A lifer for me...
If I summarize, 5 species of Fly today over there, good !
And if I add the Brown-breasted and other species seen last winter and springer (Mugimaki, Red-throated, Blue-and-white and Fujian niltava - wintering !-), at least 10 species of Fly (let alone Asian Paradise-Fly and Grey-headed Canary Fly) have stopped in this area as big as a football ground. Not bad for an urban park.
Sébastien

Verditer Flycatcher/Lenin Park
Dark-sided Flycatcher/Lenin Park

4 comments:

  1. Nice pics again!
    I just wonder when I finally will manage to spot that elusive Sebastien. Seems to be around in those muddy corners a lot but nobody manages to sees him...

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  2. Haha, Florian only comes across the common ones!
    Falk

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  3. if you want to twich the elusive Sebastien, the best place is the bia hoi corner street Tai Hien in the Old Quarter, at noon, every day ! easy to ID, no need the Robson : big size, long hairs...

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  4. Morning on the island, noon at bia hoi, afternoon in the park... sounds like a good life ;)

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